Patrícia Branco
Biography
Patrícia Branco is a researcher hired under the Scientific Employment Stimulus Program (CEECIND / 00126/2017), and she is a member of the research group DECIDe. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Law, within the scope of the "Law, Justice and Citizenship in the 21st century" program, from the University of Coimbra, with the thesis "Courts as spaces for recognition, functionality and access to justice - the case study of the Family and Child Courts in Portugal". Currently, she is part of the research project "YOUTHRESPONSE. Young adults: criminal law and the judicial response", coordinated by João Pedroso, and financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She was a Post-Doctoral fellow, by FCT (Ref. SFRH / BPD / 102236/2014), with the research project "Courts, their communities and citizens: the effectiveness in accessing the law and justice (territorial, spatial and symbolic) of the new reform of the judicial organization ". Former Former Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Recht als Kultur / Law as Culture", University of Bonn, Germany, where she developed the research project "Into, from and back again: a discussion on courthouse architecture, the image of justice and literature". Her research interests and publications focus on the issue of courthouse architecture and the spaces of justice (s); changes in family, child and youth law, and their relationship with the themes of gender and juvenile delinquency and crime; the relationship between law and the humanities; and, more recently, the connections between food and law.
ORCID
Agenda
April 19, 2021, 15h30 (GMT +01:00)
May 18, 2021, 15h30 (GMT +01:00)
THINKING FOOD, THINKING THE WORLD | Workshop V
Projetos
YOUTHRESPONSE
Young adult offenders: criminal law and judicial response
Latest Publications
Book Chapter
Branco, Patrícia (2021), Constitutions Written in Stone? Considering the Architecture of Supreme and Constitutional Courts, in Werner Gephart & Jan Cristoph Suntrup (org.), Dynamics of Constitutional Cultures. The Cultural Manifestation and Political Force Field of Constitutionalism. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 43-66
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Branco, Patrícia (2020), "Time, Art, and the Law: A Matter of Perspective. A Comment on "Danse Macabre. Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts"", Ethics & Politics. A Review of Philosophy, XXII, 3, 419-422
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Branco, Patrícia; Mohr, Richard (2020), "A gastrogeography of mobility. Urban reorientation through food", lo Squaderno, 56, 31-35
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