Introductory Note

Abstract

INTRODUCTORY NOTEe fourteen chapters which compose this book were written in the context (and under the inspiration) of the First Luso-Polish Conference on Legal eory and Legal Method(nomo)logy (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, 26 th -27 th April 2017): some of them correspond to the given oral presentation, the most part has however significantly grown since that presentation, incorporating developments and answers (if not important thematic changes) which, being directly inspired by the felicitous dialogue among the participants (during and after the two-days encounter), do free its autonomous outcome from the structural and reflexive constraints of a proceedings register. Now that the Second Luso-Polish Conference has already taken place (Warsaw, Supreme Administrative Court, 10 th and 11 th May 2018) and that a third one is already in preparation (Coimbra, 2020), it's time to unveil the essays which the first one has produced. e alluded freedom allows us in fact to propose a thematic progression which, notwithstanding the plurality of conceptions and perspectives, justifies a distribution in four different steps or grounds: the first one (first part, chapters 1 and 2) exploring the his-NOTA INTRODUTÓRIA