A lei aplicável à sociedade anónima europeia (societas europaea)

The possibility of creating a European Company is a reality about ten years. However, there are issues related to the determination of the law applicable to companies of national law with several years of discussion. It is this link between companies under national law of many Member States of the European Union and the possibility of creating a European company which denotes the importance of determining the seat of commercial companies in defining the law applicable to societas europaea; Are we facing an endless web of corporate seats.

Validade comunitária e contextos de realização: anotações em espelho sobre a concepção jurisprudencialista do sistema

Considering the specific conception of the legal system proposed by Castanheira Neves’ jurisprudentialism — as a reinvention which may be capable of critically re-thinking and re-experiencing Law’s constitutive cultural-civilizational originarium in a «limit-situation» such as our own —,this essay explores some main challenges and tensions, which contemporary practical thought autonomously recognizes: those challenges and tensions which we identify when invoking the counterpoints plurality/ unity, dogmatic presupposition / critical self-reflection, societas / communitas, legality / morality (but also particular/ universal).