FIELD OF RESERCH
The Research lines are defined as following :
1- JURISDICTION, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE EFFECTIVENESS
The exercise of the judicial function is aimed into the protection of constitutional guarantees in Brazil. This feature reveals that human and fundamental rights are goals that must be achieved in both civil and criminal jurisdiction. By putting its fundamental right and effectiveness of justice as central points, this line of research has its target to deal with theoretical and empirical investigations that associate these three elements and place them under a contemporary perspective of the problems related to the exercise of the judicial function and those involved in this relationship. Placing jurisdiction in favor of the effectiveness of constitutional guarantees may represent a way to face the various forms of exclusion that permeate the Brazilian realty.
2 - POLITICAL FUNCTION OF THE LAW AND CONSTITUTION THEORIES
Politics as the capacity for collective action in the world and law as the construction of contours and limits to human action are interconnected domains, mainly through the contemporary point of the union represented by the Democratic State of Law. Through reciprocal conditionings, law and politics sometimes represent points of theoretical and practical accommodation or tensions and paradoxes that open the opportunity for discussion on issues related to sovereignty, democracy, human rights and constitutionalism. Therefore, this field aims to host research that has its objective the investigation of theoretical foundations and practical implications of the main elements that make up the paradoxes and tensions between law and politics, with the aim to provide the scientific community with an analytical and conceptual repertoire for the dilemmas of the Democratic State of Law.
3 - RIGHTS AND VULNERABILITIES
This line of research starts from the assumption of the imbalance between the established normative order and the inequalities of the factual situations over which this order is directed, especially in Brazil. The mismatch between normative pretension and reality makes the latter the propitious ground for the proliferation of vulnerabilities, both political (in terms of domination) and socioeconomic (in terms of exploitation). Based on this finding, research paths are opened to identify the different forms of vulnerabilities (in terms of race, class, gender, functional difference, etc.) in which the Law operates. With the aim of rethinking and refounding legal dynamics towards a theory of justice consistent with human
dignity, this line is open to research projects, including interdisciplinary ones, seeking to offer a set of theoretical foundations and empirical analyses that expand the capacity to enjoy the rights of vulnerable groups.
