We currently live in a social, political and legal ‘grey area’ or ‘zone of indeterminacy’, where the constitutional democratic model, on the one hand, is pitted against anti-democratic, populist and authoritarian tendencies, on the other. This process, and the conflicts associated with it, is referred to as ‘deconstitutional momentum’. It is within the framework of this argument that the author maintains that the exception acts as the ‘engine of history’, eroding the principles of the democratic social rule of law without subverting them entirely. The paradox thus becomes a normalising principle of the social, political and legal ‘zone of indeterminacy’.

Opening lecture and joint open lecture, with both in-person and online attendance, featuring guest speaker António Casimiro Ferreira, retired Associate Professor with Habilitation at FEUC.

In-person and online event; online access requires prior registration. [HERE]

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This is a hybrid event, with the session being streamed online via the Zoom platform. Registration is compulsory.

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