On the 10th March 2016, took place at the Great Hall of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto an Internacional Conference with the theme "Corporate Associations in the Iberian Peninsula" organized by CIJ - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice and by the AEP - Associação Empresarial de Portugal. The Conference had the porpuse to debate in a critical way the normative framework of Portuguese Business Associations, compared with the spanish, allowing to build dialogue bridges between the academic worl and the corporate associativism world.