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  • Law and the Janus-faced Morality of Poltical Correctness
    No. 1 (2021)

    Our first volume, developed in an exceptionally short period of time, explores one of those problems: the culture and/or the morality of so-called political correctness. Having benefited from a generous and diverse set of contributions, this initial volume privileges a thematic concentration: sufficiently closed to guide an always difficult selection, sufficiently open however to give the selected sequence the transparency (and the dynamics) of an “arch-form” in seven chapters, the extreme panels of which (less focused on the main topic) expand the required contextualisation. The first chapter is by Professor James Boyd White, our sole invited Author, whose participation is certainly a wonderful privilege! Whilst anticipating the plurality of approaches and the perplexing argumentative reversibility which wound the story about Law and Political Correctness, the Introduction which follows also clarifies the sequence selected and the choices which build it (infra, “Law and the Janus-faced Morality of Political Correctness: an Introduction”, 3.).

    This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project ‘UIDB/04643/2020'

  • Cultural identity and Conflict of values
    No. 2 (2022)

    The second volume of the Coimbra Journal for Legal Studies deals with the determination of cultural identity and conflict of Values. The legal im-portance of cultural identity regards mainly cultural objects, from buildings to movable art, but also persons and communities organized in States, cities and international organizations.

    This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project ‘UIDB/04643/2020'

  • Justice as Translation and Counter-storytelling
    No. 3 (2023)

    The third volume of Undecidabilities and Law “takes place” under the sign of exception, an exception that we believe is nevertheless justified and productive. For the first time, we have a special issue based on a colloquium (Justice as Translation and Counter-storytelling, Coimbra, May 26th to 28th 2022), which is thus illuminated by the precious and unrepeatable moment that this meeting allowed — even if the final outcome is intended to be less a faithful reconstruction of what happened (of what was then effectively said and discussed) than the testimony of the dialogue and intertwined research that its unforgettable occasio set in motion (and that the following rewriting of the chapters corroborates). It is the strength of this very special context (or succession of contexts) that justifies, for example, maintaining in its entirety the moving intervention with which James Boyd White, speaking albeit remotely from the other margin of the Atlantic, privileged us at the opening of this meeting (see, infra, Introductory Note).

    This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project ‘UIDB/04643/2020'

  • Legality and Proportionality in the Performance of Law
    No. 4 (2024)

    The fourth volume of Undecidabilities and Law is dedicated to the relationship between legality and proportionality in the context of practical performance (or realization) of law. To explain this thematic core, attention be paid primarily to its two crucial dimensions – legality and proportionality –, both relevant for academic considerations in the field of the conf licting demands of political philosophy and legal philosophy, but also important for practical-normative dogmatic approaches, as well as for the process of interpreting the law in practice by law-enforcing Authorities.   This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project ‘UIDB/04643/2020'