DIJUS Seminar| Interdisciplinary dialogues on law and justice
Breaches and continuities in the regulation of consumption and households
November 23, 2017, 09h00
Keynes Hall, FEUC (Coimbra)
Within the framework of the DIJUS Seminars programme - Interdisciplinary dialogues on law and justice, the Centre for Social Studies organizes the seminar “Breaches and continuities in the regulation of consumption and households”. This seminar is twofold. The first part intends, through the academic reflection and the practical experience of professionals, to discuss the discontinuities and continuities of the right of consumption and the mechanisms of information and resolution of consumer conflicts. The second half will discuss the transformations of families and family law and the challenges of judicial regulation of the exercise of parental responsibilities in the 21st century.
Programme
Morning
Seminar “Consumer Law and Consumer Conflict Resolution”
9h00-10h45 – Roundtable: "Information and Resolution of Consumer Conflicts in Portugal"
Moderator: João Pedroso
Speakers: Representatives of the consumer dispute arbitration centers (CACC) of Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto
Break
11h00-13h00 – Consumer Law: breaches and continuities (Brazil and Portugal)
Moderator: Ana Catarina Fonseca (Direção-Geral do Consumidor)
Speakers:
Marcos Catalan (Unilasalle) – Consumer law in Brazil: genesis, development, deconstruction
Sandra Passinhas (FDUC) - Consumer law in Portugal
Lina Coelho (FEUC) - Conformation of patterns and modes of consumption of Portuguese families in a context of economic regression
Afternoon
Seminar “Family and Child Law”
14h30-16h00 - Mutations in families and family law
Moderator/Comments: André Dias Pereira (FDUC and República do Direito)
Speakers:
Sílvia Portugal (FEUC/CES) - Families in Portugal: change and continuity
João Pedroso (FEUC/CES) - Mutations of Family and Child Law in Portugal:
Marcos Catalan (Unilassalle) - Mutations of Family Law in Brazil: a reflection based on the densification of affection and isonomy by the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Court of Justice
Break
16h15-18h00 - Regulation of Parental Responsibilities Challenges of the 21st century
Moderator/Comments: Marcos Catalan (Unilasalle)
Speakers:
Clara Sottomayor (Judge Counselor of the Constitutional Court, Prof. of U.C. Porto)
Patrícia Branco ( CES) - “Reflections on the role of food in the regulation of parental responsibilities”
Paula Casaleiro (CES) - “The paradox of experts: inform or decide?”
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