Keywords

In its primary function of promoting and disseminating scientific knowledge, CEJEIA adopts a culture of high-level scientific investigation with national and international impact, seeking to maintain a constant connection with society. CEJEIA carries out its scientific research activities, considering the mission it has outlined, also assuming an interconnection between the areas of Law, International Relations, Political Science, Criminology, Social Work, and Social Intervention.

Taking into account the definition of the core areas of research that define and distinguish CEJEIA, the main objectives that the Center aims to achieve for the period 2025-2029 are as follows:

1. Defense of the Rule of Law and citizenship: combating corruption and digital threats to personal rights;
2. Political representation, historical perspective, and its dynamics;
3. Law, politics, and transnational security;
4. Bio-law and bioethics;
5. Risk society and its legal, economic, and environmental effects;
6. Social Rights and Social Intervention;
7. New ideology of Labor Law;
8. Criminal Law, Crimonology and new forms of criminality;
9. Transdisciplinary implications of the Portuguese Diaspora.