CEAD Francisco Suárez is an organic research unit in Law, common to the Faculty of Law of the Lusófona University – LUC, the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Lusófona University – PUC, and the Department of Law and Social Sciences of the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Higher Institute. CEAD has its headquarters on the Lisbon campus of Lusófona University, and two nuclei: one at the Porto campus of Lusófona University, and the other at the Manuel Teixeira Gomes Higher Institute (ISMAT).