Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law

Name

Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law

Legal name

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Website

https://direito.ceid.porto.ucp.pt

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Research and Academic Publishing

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAAALAB

Legal & Compliance (CLE, Paralegal CE)

Education/Adult & Continuing Education/Professional Licensure & Continuing Professional Education (CE/CPE)

Keywords

• Legal research services
• Academic law journals
• Doctoral legal education
• Competition law research
• Policy research

Headquarters

HQ city

Lisbon

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government Research Grants: Funded primarily through national Portuguese scientific funding bodies including FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) and PRR (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência), representing Portugal's national funding framework.
2. EU NextGenerationEU Funding: European Union recovery funding supporting Portuguese research initiatives.
3. University Institutional Support: Core funding and infrastructure provided by Universidade Católica Portuguesa as an institutional host.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CEID is an academic research centre that conducts legal scholarship, publishes peer-reviewed academic journals (Católica Law Review and Market and Competition Law Review), maintains specialized research observatories in competition law and vulnerable victim protection, and delivers doctoral legal education programmes across multiple campuses in Portugal. Its outputs are scholarly publications, research projects, conferences, and structured doctoral training rather than commercial products or services.

Product overview

Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law (CEID) operates as a research and academic centre rather than a technology product company. The centre provides a portfolio of scholarly publications and professional development offerings including two academic journals (Católica Law Review and Market and Competition Law Review), multiple event series (Católica Talks, Católica Working Paper Series, Café IA, and the annual Conference), and several specialized research observatories and sections. The centre also supports doctoral education through graduate conferences, forums, and the Global School of Law PhD programme across its Lisbon and Porto campuses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Católica Law Review: Academic law review journal published by the research centre
• Market and Competition Law Review
• Católica Talks
• Católica Working Paper Series
• Café IA
• Conferência Anual

Products and services

• Católica Law Review Peer-reviewed academic law review journal published by CEID, featuring legal scholarship for legal academics, researchers, and practitioners.
• Market and Competition Law Review Specialized academic journal focused on market regulation and competition law scholarship, serving legal researchers and policy professionals.
• Global School of Law Global PhD programme in law offered through the centre's international network, providing advanced research training for doctoral students.
• Observatório da Aplicação do Direito da Concorrência Research observatory focused on the application and enforcement of competition law in Portugal, supporting policy research and academic collaboration.
• Observatório da Tutela de Vítimas Especialmente Vulneráveis Research observatory dedicated to legal protection of especially vulnerable victims, generating policy analysis and academic publications.
• Secção Portuguesa da ANESC Portuguese section of the international ANESC organization, focused on comparative law research and operating as a laboratory unit within CEID's research structure.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Universidade Católica PortuguesacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent institution providing institutional hosting, faculty resources, campus infrastructure across Lisbon and Porto campuses, and administrative support for CEID operations.
• ANESC - Secção PortuguesaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortuguese section of an international academic network, operating as a laboratory unit within CEID's research structure.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bocconi University - Department of Law: Italian private university law department combining teaching, doctoral programmes, and applied legal research with strong EU policy engagement. Comparable to CEID as a private-university-affiliated law research hub, but with greater international reach and corporate-law specialisation.
• Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law: University of Oxford-based institute conducting research and publishing in European and comparative law. Comparable as an academic law research centre publishing journals and hosting events, though operating at substantially higher international citation impact.
• Sciences Po Law School: A French research-led law school integrated within Sciences Po, combining doctoral programmes, research centres, and policy engagement on EU law. Comparable to CEID as a doctoral- and research-intensive law school embedded in a larger private university structure.
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law: A major German-based academic research institute producing high-volume legal scholarship across comparative and international private law. Comparable to CEID as a university-affiliated law research centre publishing peer-reviewed legal outputs, but operating at much larger scale and international reach.
• Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS, University of London): A UK national centre for legal research supporting doctoral researchers and publishing scholarship across multiple legal fields. Comparable to CEID's doctoral support infrastructure and academic publishing activities, though with broader UK and Commonwealth reach.
• European University Institute - Law Department: An EU intergovernmental postgraduate academic institution with a dedicated Law Department running doctoral and post-doctoral research programmes and policy-oriented legal research. Directly comparable to CEID's doctoral education and academic publishing model, but with pan-European rather than national scope.

Direct peers

• Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (FDUL): Portugal's leading public law faculty, also running doctoral programmes and publishing legal scholarship domestically. The closest direct domestic competitor to CEID in Portuguese legal academia, with a larger scale and broader public-university footprint.
• Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (FDUP): Public university law faculty in Porto with doctoral programmes and active legal research output. The most direct geographic and functional competitor to CEID in Porto, sharing the same city and overlapping doctoral student base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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