Four lines of research provide the guidelines for supervision of Master’s and the Doctorate research projects, focusing on the main area “Law and Justice”.
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Power, Citizenship, and Development under the Rule of Law
This line seeks to study the fundamentals of power and authority on a governmental, international, social level as well as that of corporations with a view to investigating ethical, political, economic, and social grounds for the legitimacy of the institutions. In particular, it seeks to investigate, amongst other things, the role of taxation and distributive justice; the role of democracy and political institutions; the boundaries of governmental power and the right to punish; contemporary trends in terms of public administration and governance; the role of the market, international organizations, and international law.
Participants
Professors
Bernardo Gonçalves Alfredo Fernandes
Cristiana Maria Fortini Pinto e Silva
Fabiano Teodoro de Rezende Lara
Frederico Gomes de Almeida Horta
Collaborators
Coordination
Fernando Antônio Nogueira Galvão da Rocha Coordinator
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Human Rights and the Rule of Law: foundations, participation, and effectiveness
This line investigates discourse in its ideological traditions and versions as well as the challenges in connection with the effectiveness of human rights under the Rule of Law, in all institutional contexts in which these rights are present – legislation, management, judicial protection, mediation, negotiation processes, amongst others – including social participation in the foundation and effectiveness thereof as conflicts are experienced by individuals, groups, or agents on various interrelational levels.
Participants
Professors
Ester Camila Gomes Norato Rezende
Gláucio Ferreira Maciel Gonçalves
Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês
Collaborators
Coordination
Adriana Goulart de Sena Orsini Structuring Project Coordinator 1
Fabiana de Menezes Soares Structuring Project Coordinator 2
Mônica Sette Lopes Research Line Coordinator
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History, Power and Freedom
This line articulates the interfaces between legal knowledge and humanistic knowledge, repositioning the debates on the hiss story coal and political grounds of the law and the repercussions thereof, in the light of new interdisciplinary frameworks. It seeks to place History as a venue for reflection on the individual, Law and the Government as well as on the transformation of territories whilst recovering the constitutive tension between the individual and citizenship, history and reason, cultural studies and globalization, acknowledgment and work, identity and the collectiveness, tradition and critique.
Participants
Professors
Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos
Fabrício Bertini Pasquot Polido
Gustavo Seferian Scheffer Machado
Collaborators
Coordination
Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira Coordinator
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State, Reason and History
This line investigates the State in its multiple dimensions (political, legal, philosophical, cultural, social, and strategic) encouraging reading to establish a critical dialogue vis-à-vis thought traditions. This line proposes a historical, systematic, and critical reflection of what is fair and what is political, in light of the dialectic split between rationality and historicity, the tension between power and freedom, while addressing the interdisciplinary approaches of Law and State by recovering, on domestic and foreign levels alike, the dialectics between critical-legal perspectives and political-philosophical ones, history of law, and comparative law.
Participants
Professors
Collaborators
Coordination
José Luiz Borges Horta Coordinator