Mission

• The Faculty aims to become an innovative hub in the development of legal science and the teaching of law in Portugal, through the progress of research, the teaching of new subjects and the use of innovative teaching methods, with the aim of responding to new training requirements.
• The Faculty also considers its vocation to be openness to society, to new branches of law and to other social sciences, emphasizing special attention to the contemporary evolution of public life and its new problems.
• In addition to its classic research and teaching functions, the Faculty aims to develop activities of debate, collaboration and dissemination with other sectors of society and to strengthen relations with the most modern European and international law schools.
• The Faculty also aims to reinforce the idea of academic community, believing that the professional vocation of university law teaching must be developed in balance with its essential cultural and scientific functions.

NOVA School of Law is the English language name of Faculdade de Direito da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa