The Rule of the Courts

Presentation

P RESENTATION

The XV Annual Meeting of the “SUI IURIS, Asociación Iberoamericana de Facultades y Escuelas de Derecho” (https://suiiurisasociacion.wordpress.com/) took place between the 3rd and 4th of July, 2025, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. SUI IURIS is a network of Ibero-American Law Schools and Faculties aimed at promoting student mobilities and academic cooperation as well as sharing research between partner institutions. The Lisbon meeting also sought to be an opportunity to strengthen cooperation links between SUI IURIS and other similar institutions linked to legal research and teaching in Europe and North America, which were invited to participate in order to build “new bridges” between different “legal continents”. The meeting began on July 3rd, with an inaugural session chaired by the Director of the Lisbon Law Faculty, Professor Eduardo Vera-Cruz Pinto, and included interventions by Professor Vasco Pereira da Silva (Head of ELPIS, and Member of the Board of Directors of SUI IURIS and SIPE) and Professor Martin Hevia (President of SUI IURIS). In this session, the meeting was presented to the participants, explaining that the morning programme (Thursday and Friday) would follow the usual order of SUI IURIS meetings, with the discussion of internal issues of common interest, but that in the afternoon, following the model of last year’s meeting in Miami, there would be joint sessions aimed at promoting cooperation between SUI IURIS and other invited academic institutions from Europe and the United States, namely ELPIS (European Legal Practice Integrated Studies / http://www.elpisnetwork.eu/), SIPE (Societas Iuris Pubblici Europaei / https://sipe-online.eu/) and SEALS (Southeastern Association of Law Schools / https://www.sealslawschools.org/). This was followed by a discussion about Mental health and well-being of Law students, with interventions by Professor Maria Graciela Brantt

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