Uma avaliação da possível autonomia do "Direito dos Museus" no ordenamento jurídico português : An assessment on the possible autonomy of "Museum Law" in the portuguese legal system

Abstract

The development and bigger complexity of modern life, together with an increased technicality of legal instruments of Society's regulation and with other factors, have caused a significant increase in the amount of legal rules, with the inherent problem of their storage into sectors, in order to enable a better understanding and application of those rules; the classic problem of Law division in branches sees, thus, a renewed relevance. This study focuses, in the context of that problem, on the issue of the possible autonomy of a specific set of rules, which can be named as "Museum Law". With reference to Portuguese today’s Legal System, and distinguishing between different forms of autonomy, it comes, depending on the different modalities, to different conclusions about the autonomy of that set of rules.