Research group: Justice, Regulation, and Society

Coordination: Paula Borges Santos

The research group’ Justice, Regulation, and Society’ (JRS) promotes and develops studies on the historical realities of the modern and  contemporary world (19th and 20th centuries), which acknowledge and address the cultural dimension of the law, the influence of politics and the law on economic and social behaviours.

Our research is based on historiographic thought, but adds different approaches to Law and to institutions, captured in an interdisciplinary environment, examining national and transnational tendencies. The transnational dimension has been cultivated, through training seminars on political and judicial European history, which provide researchers with the tools that allow for truly sustained comparative approaches, and through the participation of the members of JRS in international scientific projects.

JRS also benefits from partnerships, consolidated through different scientific actions (editions, post-graduate training, scientific meetings, international scientific networks) with foreign research centres and universities, namely in Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Poland, and Brazil. JRS researchers maintain, in the works they develop, a regular cooperation and dialogue with entities from the central and local administration of the Portuguese State and with institutions of civil society. This involvement has not only allowed for the academic valorisation of public and private archives, still not very explored, but it also has been effective in the dissemination of research results.