No. 1 (2025): Law, Freedom, and Peace

As we celebrate the freedom of all the countries of the CPLP, especially the ones celebrating the golden anniversary of their triumph, we will continue to uphold it under the sign of the communion of the lively spirit of liberated thinking with the prudent judgement of scientific culture.

This, however, goes hand in hand with something that extends beyond a commemorative occasion. After all, if we are to understand law, we need to appreciate the dimension of human freedom, expressed both on an individual level and in the social and political order.

Peace, in turn, is the way leading to the full enjoyment of freedom and the effective assurance of justice, and it falls incumbent upon the legal community to watch over its fulfilment.

Faced with the scourge of ongoing wars and other confrontational phenomena of catastrophic magnitude claiming lives and ravaging the world with pain and destruction, there is an unpostponable demand for the promotion of peace, the key building block on which stands the trustworthy promise of the integral development of our potential as human beings and as communities.