The UMinho Law School, in Braga, hosts, from the 7th to the 10th of May, the 10th Congress of Law in Lusofonia, which includes more than one hundred communications and ten plenary conferences by experts from all over the world.
The opening session is this Tuesday, at 2:30 pm, followed at 3:00 pm by the conference by Joana Marques Vidal, president of the General Council of UMinho and former attorney general of the Republic, under the theme “Constitutional architecture of Courts and the Public Ministry and Human Rights in the PALOP”.
Figures from various continents
This is a unique congress in the area and brings together international figures such as the minister of the Superior Military Court of Brazil, Elizabeth Rocha, the president of the Constitutional Court of Angola, Laurinda Cardoso, the attorney general of the Republic of Angola, Hélder Pitta Grós, the prosecutor Angolan military officer, Filomeno Benedito, the director of the Faculty of Law at Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique), Eduardo Chiziane, and professor Almeida Machava, from the University of Macau, among many others.
Also joining from Portugal are, for example, the retired public prosecutor Rui do Carmo, the advisory judge of the Supreme Administrative Court, João Sérgio Ribeiro, the president of the Peace Courts, Vítor Gomes and the president of the Union of Public Prosecutor’s Magistrates , Paulo Lona.
The event has the theme “Current challenges to human rights and the role of Portuguese-speaking countries and regions. By way of balance, 10 years later…”. It intersects law with different fields of society, such as the Brazilian Public Ministry in times of polarization, violent extremism in Mozambique, police corruption in Luanda, female genital mutilation in Guinea-Bissau, environmental protection in India and humanitarian crises.
Human rights and AI in focus
Artificial intelligence and online are another key topic, with communications on neurorights, digital evidence, defamation on the web, regulation of social networks, use of AI in medicine and police, autonomous driving, online betting, dismissals for technological reasons , invasive telephone operators and digital simplex of legal processes.
Eavesdropping, secrecy in the media, money laundering and transnational organized crime will also be addressed. Reproductive health, disability, indigenous people and simplified legal language are also on the agenda.
This congress is part of the celebrations of UMinho’s 50th anniversary and is organized by EDUM, the Justice and Governance Research Center (JusGov) and the Lusophone Law Research Network (REDIL), with the support of the Foundation for Science and The technology.
