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Digitalisation of Justice – feedback is open on the putative Commission’s Communication on a Digital Justice Strategy for 2025-2030
By Joana Covelo de Abreu (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; CitDig key-staff member)
Category: News, 2 June 2025
Portugal’s Social Climate Plan: public consultation has begun
By Nataly Machado (PhD Candidate at the School of Law of the University of Minho, FCT research scholarship holder – 2023.04074.BD) and Cecília Pires (PhD Candidate at the School of Law of the University of Minho, FCT research scholarship holder – 2023.01072.BD
Category: Reviews, 19 May 2025
Political manipulation in the digital age: the European Union’s struggle for electoral integrity
By Beatriz Magalhães Sousa (master’s student in EU Law at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 13 May 2025
The Greenpeace lawsuit in Dutch courts: a landmark case and the first real test for the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive
By Ana Carcau (master’s student in EU Law at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 29 April 2025
Opinion on Opinion 28/2024 of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB): the HeLa of the mind (on the unknowing immortality of online language)
By Bruno Saraiva [master’s student in EU Law and Digital Citizenship & Technological Sustainability (CitDig) scholarship holder]
Category: Essays, 21 April 2025
“Action Plan for Affordable Energy” – a solution for citizens or a win for big corporations?
By Cecília Pires (PhD Candidate at the School of Law of the University of Minho | FCT research scholarship holder – 2023.01072.BD)
Category: Essays, 14 April 2025
Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber Extended Composition), 8 January 2025, Case T-354/22 Bindl/Commission
By Maria José Costeira, Ricardo Silva Passos and Esperança Mealha (Portuguese judges and référendaire of the CJEU)
Category: Summaries of judgments made in collaboration with the Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU, 7 March 2025
Compensation for unlawful data transfers: The T-354/22 judgment (Bindl v. Commission) in perspective
By João Pedro Sousa (master’s student in EU Law at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Case notes, 22 February 2025
AI in the context of border management, migration and asylum in the EU: technological innovation vs. fundamental rights of migrants in the AI Act
By Maria Clara Pina (master’s student in Human Rights at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essay, 15 February 2025
The EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement – A “race to the bottom” when it comes to EU’s climate goals?
By Ana Cardoso (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essay, 15 February 2025
The dilemmas of content moderation in the European Union and Latin America: a new chapter?
By Alexandre Veronese (Professor, School of Law, University of Brasília; CitDig key external member) and Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; CitDig Academic Coordinator)
Category: Editorial of January 2025, 25 January 2025
Commentary to the Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck judgment: a failure by the CJEU in appropriately balancing privacy, data protection and the interests of law enforcement
By Tiago Sérgio Cabral (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 14 January 2025
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: a brief analysis of Directive (EU) 2024/1385 of 14 May 2024
By Ana Cardoso (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Reviews, 30 November 2024
Rethinking public acceptance mechanisms and ethical frameworks for emerging technologies in the EU: the example of virtual reality
By Manuel Resende Protásio (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 22 November 2024
Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber, Extended Composition), 17 July 2024, Case T-1077/23 Bytedance/Commission
By Maria José Costeira, Ricardo Silva Passos and Esperança Mealha (Portuguese judges and référendaire of the CJEU)
Category: Summaries of judgments made in collaboration with the Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU, 8 November 2024
On rebalancing powers in the digital ecosystem in recent CJEU case law (or on the battle between David and Goliath)
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig)
Category: Essays, 31 October 2024
On peace and sustainability
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig)
Category: Editorial of October 2024, 17 October 2024
Summaries of judgments: Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden | NADA e o.
By Nuno Piçarra and Sophie Perez (Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU)
Category: Summaries of judgments made in collaboration with the Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU, 19 July 2024
Democratic integrity in the era of digital disinformation
By Eduardo Paiva (Master in Law and Informatics, University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 21 June 2024
Iris collection as a proof of personhood: current trends on biometric recognition
By Maria Inês Costa (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 17 May 2024
New digital manifestations of financial services and European integration: what benefits for the European citizen
By Ana Filipa Machado Ribeiro (Student at the School of Law of University of Minho | Winner of the 2023 UMinho Award for Undergraduate Research)
Category: Essays, 25 April 2024
The EU Directive on violence against women and domestic violence – fixing the loopholes in the Artificial Intelligence Act
By Inês Neves (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto)
Category: Essays, 29 March 2024
On inferred personal data and the difficulties of EU law in dealing with this matter
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig)
Category: Editorial of March, 19 March 2024
An omen for 2024: the deepening of the European Social Union (in memory of Jacques Delors)
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig)
Category: Editorial of January, 17 January 2024
The regulation of non-invasive neurotechnologies in the EU single market: A rights-orientated approach in a goldmine of data
By Bárbara Goldman (Master´s student in EU Law at School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Comments, 1 December 2023
Beyond the Digital Markets Act: much more than a piece of legislation
By Inês Neves (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto)
Category: Essays, 24 November 2023
The need for an egalitarian ethical framework for emerging technologies
By Manuel Protásio (PhD candidate at School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 17 November 2023
Disinformation overload on social networks: is the European “marketplace of ideas” threatening to colapse
By Iolanda Rodrigues de Brito (Lecturer at Ius Gentium Conimbrigae – Human Rights Centre, University of Coimbra)
Category: Essays, 13 November 2023
EU’s policies to AI: are there blindspots regarding accountability and democratic governance?
By Maria Inês Costa (PhD candidate at School of Law of University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 27 October 2023
Why is the demarcation of indigenous peoples’ territories in Brazil important to achieve European and global climate goals?
By Cecília Bojarski Pires (PhD candidate at School of Law of University of Minho
Category: Essays, 19 October 2023
Impact of climate change on children and young adults
By Alessandra Silveira, Pedro Madeira Froufe, Carlos Abreu Amorim, Joana Covelo Abreu, Tiago Cabral, Maria Inês Costa (Editorial Team, CitDig Members)
Category: Editorial of September2023, 20 September 2023
One year from the European Parliament elections (June 2024): what is the opinion of European citizens (particularly, Portuguese citizens) about European integration?
By Alessandra Silveira, Pedro Madeira Froufe, Carlos Abreu Amorim, Joana Covelo Abreu, Tiago Cabral, Maria Inês Costa (Editorial Team, CitDig Members)
Category: Editorial of August2023, 03 August 2023
Regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI): on the civilisational choice we are all making
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig) and Maria Inês Costa (PhD candidate, School of Law, University of Minho)
Category: Editorial of July 2023, 17 July 2023
The Nature Restoration Law in the European Parliament
By Isabel Estrada Carvalhais (MEP, Full Member of the Committee of Agriculture and Rural Development and of the Committee of Fisheries, Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of the Socialists and Democrats)
Category: Essays, 11 July 2023
The legal concept of discrimination by association: where does it fit into the digital era?
By Maria Inês Costa (Master in Human Rights; PhD candidate, School of Law, University of Minho)
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023), 15 July 2023
Open data and re-use of public information – smart cities as open data ecosystems
By Joana Covelo de Abreu (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Key-staff member of CitDig)
Category: Comments, 29 June 2023
HYA and Others (Grounds for authorising telephone tapping) | Colt Technology Services and Others
By Nuno Piçarra and Sophie Perez (Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU)
Category: Summaries of judgments made in collaboration with the Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU, 23 June 2023
2023 EU Justice Scoreboard – how independent and efficient justice systems can strengthen the business dimension in the EU through digitalisation?
By Joana Covelo de Abreu (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Key-staff member of CitDig)
Category: Editorial of June 2023, 16 June 2023
Brazil’s Recent Ratification of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime
By Bruno Calabrich (Public Prosecutor (Brazil); PhD candidate at the University of Brasília (UnB)
Category: Comments, 26 May 2023
From the Digital Services package to the Digital Markets Act: the road to a (more) secure, open, and fundamental rights-friendly digital space
By Inês Neves (Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto, Member of the Jean Monnet Module team DigEUCit)
Category: Essays, 4 May 2023
Article 12-A and the presumption of an employment relationship for digital labour platforms
By Teresa Coelho Moreira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho)
Category: Essays, 27 April 2023
Finally, the ECJ is interpreting Article 22 GDPR (on individual decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling)
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig)
Category: Essays, 10 April 2023
How can there be an ecological transition without a just transition? – starting with the European Union
By Nataly Machado (Master in EU Law; PhD candidate, School of Law, University of Minho)
Vol. 8, No. 2, 31 March 2023
Automated individual decision-making and profiling [on case C-634/21 - SCHUFA (Scoring)]
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig)
Vol. 8, No. 2, 31 March 2023
Alessandra Silveira, CitDig Coordinator, spoke at the “XII Congress of Portuguese Judges – Democracy, Rights, Development”, organised by the Trade Union Association of Portuguese Judges (ASJP)
By Alessandra Silveira (Professor, School of Law, University of Minho; Academic Coordinator – CitDig),
Category: Essays, 18 March 2023
Sustainability and trade marks
By Maria Miguel Carvalho (Director of Research Centre for Justice and Governance, School of Law, University of Minho),
Category: Essays, 9 March 2023
Minister for Ecological Transition and Prime Minister | Puig Gordi
By Nuno Piçarra and Sophie Perez (Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU)
Category: Summaries of judgments made in collaboration with the Portuguese judge and référendaire of the CJEU, 28 February, 2023
Truffle hunting: finding meaning in the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade
By Miguel Pereira (Master’s student in European Union Law at the University of Minho,
Category: Editorial of February 2023, 14 February 2023
What if mechanisms of solidarity had more effectiveness beyond the borders of the European Union? At least for the climate crisis?
By Nataly Machado (Master in European Union Law from the School of Law of the University of Minho),
Category: Editorial of December 2022, 1 December 2022
The future regulation on non-contractual civil liability for AI systems
By Susana Navas Navarro (Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona],
Category: Essays, 24 November 2022
Do spinach and smart cities benefit your health?
By Cecília Pires (PhD Candidate at the School of Law of the University of Minho),
Category: Essays, 11 November 2022
What is “Reality”? An overview to the potential legal implications of Extended Reality technologies
By Manuel Protásio (PhD Candidate at the School of Law of the University of Minho),
Category: Essays, 18 November 2022
“Brexit means Brexit” for the EU citizenship rights of British nationals – The Court of Justice conclusions in Préfet du Gers
By Joana Gama Gomes (Assistant Professor of European and International Law, University of Lisbon School of Law),
Category: Case Notes, 27 October 2022
EU Carbon Border Tax Mechanism: a potential Boon or Bane for India
By Aaiysha Topiwala (third year undergraduate student at Gujarat National Law University – India),
Category: Comments, 20 October 2022
Digital citizenship and technological sustainability (CitDig) – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
By Editorial Team,
Category: Editorial of October 2022, 13 October 2022
Again: on the prohibition of generalised and indiscriminate retention of metadata for the purpose of combating serious crime
By Alessandra Silveira (Editor) and Tiago Sérgio Cabral (Managing Editor),
Category: Case Notes, 6 October 2022
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