An assessment on the possible autonomy of “Museum Law” in the Portuguese Legal System

Authors

  • Abel Laureano Universidade do Porto - Portugal

Keywords:

Museums, Museum Law, Branches of Law.

Abstract

The development and bigger complexity of modern life, together with an increased technicality of legal instruments of Society’s regulation and with other factors, have caused a significant increase in the amount of legal rules, with the inherent problem of their storage into sectors, in order to enable a better understanding and application of those rules; the classic problem of Law division in branches sees, thus, a renewed relevance. This study focuses, in the context of that problem, on the issue of the possible autonomy of a specific set of rules, which can be named as “Museum Law”. With reference to Portuguese today’s Legal System, and distinguishing between different forms of autonomy, it comes, depending on the different modalities, to different conclusions about the autonomy of that set of rules.

Author Biography

Abel Laureano, Universidade do Porto - Portugal

Docente da Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Doutorando em Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales na Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Espanha). Diploma de Estudios Aprofundizados (DEA) pela Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Espanha). Mestre em Direito (Integração Europeia) pela Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). Diploma em Estudos Europeus (DEE) pela Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).

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Published

2012-02-10

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 1 (2012)

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