April 22, 23 and 24/2019
Law School — University of Lisbon
The Lisbon Legal Forum is an event that takes place annually and aims to discuss the most important issues regarding Constitutional Law. This year's edition will be held on April 22, 23 and 24 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (FDUL), in Portugal, and its central theme will be “Justice and Security”, values intrinsic to the practice of law, whose function is to put them into practice.
The seminar addresses the State's capacity to promote quality of life and well-being for its citizens from the perspective of Justice and Security. The purpose of the 7th Lisbon Legal Forum is to discuss solutions, actions, and public policies that seek to solve or mitigate the impacts of globalization and sociopolitical changes in the fields of public safety, social security, organized crime, justice reforms, criminal and criminal procedure, governance 4.0, artificial intelligence, and others.
Today's security-related challenges entail highly complex and relevant debates. This is because the background is a concern with Fundamental Rights and Guarantees, Human Rights, the Separation of Powers, in short, issues sensitive to the Democratic Rule of Law itself that guide the ideal of Justice.
Studies show that lack of security, protection, and justice contribute to poverty and underdevelopment. Economic growth and private sector development are directly affected by the lack of security, and the economic costs of violence and injustice are impactful. In this context, it is essential that there be a preventive policy articulated with the Justice to achieve the improvement of Security.
In this context, there are, fundamentally, two fronts of action on security. In the preventive sphere, the main concern is to identify the historical causes that generate an increase in crime, such as encouraging education, level of development, and social inequality. The second interpretation focuses on the consequences of crime and the efficiency of the punitive means applied.
The latest events that marked the Brazilian political scene highlighted the need for change and the adoption of new justice and security practices. It is in this context that Brazil and Portugal discuss the challenges inherent to this moment of transition. The exchange of experiences between two countries that are historically close and that, however, have peculiarities in the political, economic and social spheres, is of great value to promote progress in Brazil. This movement goes beyond the limits of the national debate and will place Brazil at the forefront in implementing successful measures in Portugal.
Brazil faces the enormous challenge of confronting security-related problems, combating corruption, organized crime, and violence and, at the same time, resuming its economic and social growth and development, as well as strengthening the level of reliability at the national and international levels.
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The member countries of the European Union are ahead not only socially and economically, but in terms of regulation. Portugal, in particular, can contribute to a correct framework of institutional changes and to the promotion of legal changes in Brazil, because the realities of the two countries form common cultural pillars.
The 7th Lisbon Legal Forum intends to discuss problems and propose solutions for this topic. The cooperation is therefore intended to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experiences, as well as to promote academic debates capable of influencing the proposal of public policies and leading to the development of joint projects involving a variety of initiatives aimed at public and private institutions.
