Country Report Portugal
The implementation of Directive 2001/20/EC changed considerably the legal regulation of clinical trials in Portugal. The rights of the participants in research, including minors and incompetent adults, are now more accurately described and the possibility of non-therapeutic research with minors was introduced. Moreover, the new administrative procedure and the role of ethics committees changed substantially, since the new National Ethics Committee for Clinical Research was given extensive power and the traditional local ethics committees have seen a decrease in their functions and activities.
Extradition Law
Since the inception of the modern paradigm of international cooperation in the 18th century, mobility of people and the capacity to commit crimes from a distance have increased exponentially. Extradition is a key instrument for addressing those phenomena. However, several obstacles to effective cooperation endure. The question this study seeks to answer is whether those obstacles should be removed and, if so, how and to what extent. To that end, the study looks into other areas of the law concerned with transnational issues, and concludes by proposing a model of increased cooperation based on mutual understanding and respect among States.
Fascism in Britain: A History, 1918-1985
Tracing its origins from shortly after the World War I, this book presents a portrait of fascism in the 1930s. It reassesses Mosley's career, describes the reasons for internment in 1940 and the effect it had on leading fascists, exposes the famous Britons who subscribed to fascism, reveals the ominous re-emergence of the tradition after 1945, and explains its remarkable persistence into the l980s.