PANELS

PANEL 1 — PUBLIC SAFETY

Public safety is a comprehensive and multifaceted issue, which is broadly related to the right of citizens to come and go, and it is up to the State to ensure it. Public safety is a challenge for all countries, but especially for Brazil, and must constitute an effective, intelligent and long-term policy.

PANEL 2 — PROCESS REFORM, TAX JUSTICE AND ARBITRATION

In Brazil, the flow of lawsuits has experienced exponential growth in recent decades. This excessive amount of litigation caused other alternative means of conflict resolution, such as arbitration, conciliation, and mediation to emerge as an option to the traditional judicial process. Comparisons between arbitration and traditional litigation are frequent, which is best will always depend on the specific case. However, in general, arbitration is often viewed as a more simplified and less expensive method of resolving a dispute between two parties. In addition, seeking to spread the culture of pacification between the parties, the civil process in Brazil underwent reforms and the new legal decree, in numerous precepts, suggests self-composition. This panel will discuss the reality of the Judiciary and the need for alternative means of resolving disputes.

PANEL 3 — PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECURITY COSTS IN BRAZIL

Public security costs are private (mainly spending on security services), public (such as expenses with the judicial system and police services) and social (loss of quality of life, for example). Countries must manage all these costs so as not to burden the population excessively or to degrade their well-being.

PANEL 4 — THE FINANCING OF SOCIAL SECURITY

Social security is funded in a variety of ways in countries. The globalized world, the internet, and the change in perspective from employment to work impose the need to adapt to the new global economic and social ones. In this sense, discussing the financing of social security today is of paramount importance to guarantee your long-term security.

PANEL 5 — CRIMINAL EXECUTION AND PRISON CRISIS

Currently, several countries, such as Brazil, face the problem of overcrowding in prisons. The slowness of the judicial system makes it difficult to monitor the execution of prisoners' sentences, contributing to the prison crisis. Discussing policies that reduce the crisis and that contribute to the reintegration of the deprived of liberty is of paramount importance for the promotion of social justice.

PANEL 6 — ACTIVISM IN CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE

Constitutional activism is the modern version of the well-known judicial activism, it is said to be the proactive interference of the Judiciary in the other spheres of power, Executive and Legislative. This phenomenon is the result of the Democratic Constitutional State of Law itself, which authorizes the effective participation of the Judiciary to enforce constitutional norms in the field of action of the other two Powers for the purpose of realizing Constitutional values.

WORKSHOP

PANEL 1 — DEMOCRACY, PROFESSIONAL PRESS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

The advent of new technologies and, specifically, of social networks represented, at the same time, an advance and a challenge for democratic regimes and for the traditional press. The instantaneous and online flow of information means that the press has to rethink its ways of investigating, publishing, and communicating with citizens. Democracies, in turn, are having to deal with a higher demand from citizens for faster responses from the State and for transparency.

**PANEL 2 — HATE SPEECH, FAKE NEWS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS**

The advancement of technology allows people to be more and more connected with each other, which can be very positive on the one hand, but negative on the other. With the ease of access to the internet, it's easier for people to express themselves. Separated only by physical distance, many use the false protection of a computer screen or smartphones to practice hate speech (Hate Speech), that is, they freely threaten or offend other people because of their ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, political position, etc. Most of the time, these offenses are made through comments on social networks made by profiles Fakes, created with the purpose of disguising the true identity of the aggressor. Hate speech can lead to disastrous consequences for the victim, such as the spread of calls Fake news. Fake news They are news released without the concern of verifying sources, with information that escapes the truth and that can be produced by anyone, given the ease of sharing information via social networks, quickly becoming viral. As Fake news normally they are politically biased and aim to delegitimize a person or group, having high persuasive power.

PANEL 3 — REGULATION OF INFORMATION IN CYBERSPACE

The advent of the internet was responsible for transforming and revolutionizing communication between people, suppressing physical boundaries and creating an infinite network based on computers. This technological revolution combined with globalization made information circulate much more quickly, and the absence of a palpable physical space makes it difficult to regulate cyberspace, which creates a conflict between constitutional law and public international law.

PANEL 4 — ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Faced with advances in technology, which increasingly blur the contours of various fields of science, there are perennial questions about the possibilities that can be explored in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. What are the limits of a robot's performance? Is a robot capable of thinking and feeling? What can artificial intelligence bring as a contribution to robotics? Where is the thin outline that determines the ethical limits of such research and advances? Would there be other fields of action for artificial intelligence? These, among many others, are questions to which answers are constantly sought, given the profound and delicate nature of the topic, giving rise to a debate that is constantly renewed.

parallel panels

PANEL 1 - NEW CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SANCTIONING LAW INSTITUTES IN BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL

Currently, one of the most important topics in Criminal Law is the relationship between Criminal and Administrative Sanctioning Law. Distinguishing the peculiarities of criminal and administrative wrongdoing represents a challenge for jurists. There is no way to ignore the intersection between these two regulatory fields and individualizing the differentiating elements of the two main spheres of state punitive sanction is not easy. Should or can two types of sanctions be applied to the same unlawful conduct? This panel will discuss the Brazilian and Portuguese reality in relation to the new institutes of Criminal and Administrative Sanctioning Law.

PANEL 2 - CHALLENGES OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL COOPERATION

Globalization has affected not only the world economy, but also the way in which justice works. The increase in cross-border individual, political, and commercial activities brought a new international dimension to law. The challenges that arise in international cooperation are the most diverse and are typically linked to the jurisdictions involved and their experiences, as well as to individual needs. The challenges in international legal cooperation range from the simple to the most complex, such as the issue of the time zone to the difficulties in coordinating investigations; the language to the different legal systems, in addition to numerous other differences. Some of these difficulties cannot be completely eliminated or avoided. However, others must be identified and minimized by the responsible bodies. In this panel, the current challenges of international legal cooperation will be analyzed.

PANEL 3 - TECHNOLOGY AT THE SERVICE OF THE PROCESS - A BRAZIL-PORTUGAL DIALOGUE

With regard to technology at the service of justice, Brazil and Portugal are going through a similar moment. The electronic process is already a reality and a current phenomenon with regard to the use of digital systems in courts and other public bodies in their procedural activities. Both the Brazilian and Portuguese judicial systems are moving forward to abolish paper once and for all.
Brazil, due to its continental dimensions, faces a little more difficulty in implementing an integral system. Currently, several process systems and applications coexist in different courts. In Portugal, on the other hand, almost all courts have electronic proceedings and, in the last year, the extension of electronic actions in higher courts kicked off the country's ability to obtain all lawsuits off paper. The technological challenges and digital experiences of Brazilian and Portuguese justice will be discussed in this panel.