Research Groups

Procedural Safeguards for Unwaivable Public Interests

Meetings: Meetings: To be agreed

The research to be developed by this group aims to present the recognition and protection of so-called unconditional public interests as a fundamental characteristic of contemporary constitutional democracies. The conditions for the legitimate exercise of public coercive power in response to their violation and the procedural instruments related to the topic will be investigated. In this context, it is necessary to compare the essential protection of unconditional public interests with the instrumental role of criminal proceedings, adapting the social reality surrounding such crimes to modern and classical procedural tools available.

Marias, Clarices, Violence and Human Rights

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To discuss concepts that will allow us to better understand the issue of domestic and family violence against women. Additionally, it aims to highlight the historical paths and struggles for the recognition of women’s rights, which have elevated an issue once considered private (marital) to a matter of public interest and academic study.

Marias, Clarices, Violence and Human Rights

Meetings: Meetings: To be agreed

To discuss concepts that will allow us to better understand the issue of domestic and family violence against women. Additionally, it aims to highlight the historical paths and struggles for the recognition of women’s rights, which have elevated an issue once considered private (marital) to a matter of public interest and academic study.

The Fundamental Right to Security and Its Realization in the Context of Criminal Protection of the Economic Order

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This research addresses the complex coexistence between the strengthening of the penal system, as a realization of the fundamental right to security, and fundamental rights and guarantees, particularly those related to freedom, a cornerstone of the Rule of Law. Starting from this demarcation, the aim is to elucidate the conditions, possibilities, and limits of the punitive system’s expansion through Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in the protection of transindividual legal interests, with the purpose of achieving a possible balance between the protection of society as a whole—and its individuals—and the equally guaranteed freedom rights as fundamental rights, with a special focus on the criminal protection of the economic order.

Corruptive Pathologies

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This research project aims to critically analyze the theme of what we call CORRUPTIVE PATHOLOGIES, understood as phenomena with multiple foundations and causal links, addressed by various fields of knowledge (philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, legal sciences, etc.). These phenomena are not easily understood or defined, especially when examined in their daily institutional and social manifestations.

Collision of Fundamental Rights and Law as Argumentation

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This research aims to tackle the problem of the rationality of jurisprudence. Among the topics to be examined are: Can judicial decisions be rationally justified? Do existing theories of legal argumentation provide sufficient elements for rational justification beyond deductive reasoning in the subsumption process? Can the application of the proportionality principle be rationally explained in the context of fundamental rights? Do value judgments, commonly used by judges in judicial reasoning, undermine the rational foundation of judicial decisions?

Legal Theory: From Academia to Practice

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This project investigates the main contemporary theories regarding the concept of Law, as well as the limits and possibilities of theoretical reflection influencing/illuminating legal practice (particularly: the judicial process, legal decision-making, and the role and responsibility of the Judiciary in constitutional democracies).

Family, Successions, Children, Adolescents, and the Federal Constitution

Meetings: Meetings: To be agreed

This project focuses on analyzing the family as the foundation of society and a unit entitled to special state protection. It aims to discuss the protection of family members, with an emphasis on transindividual rights related to vulnerabilities arising from gender, sexual orientation, and the enforcement of the Integral Protection of Children, Adolescents, Youth, and the Elderly.

Constitution, Cinema, and Literature

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This research project proposes an interdisciplinary analysis to understand the relationships between the Constitution, literature, and cinema. By intersecting these fields, it seeks to investigate how constitutional norms influence cultural production and how, in turn, literature and cinema can contribute to building a critical awareness of the legal order. The Constitution, as the supreme expression of the legal system, establishes the foundations of society. Literature and cinema, on the other hand, are powerful means of expression that can both reflect and shape social reality. By analyzing their interaction, the project aims to understand how culture influences and is influenced by legal norms, contributing to a more just and democratic society.

Procedure and Constitution

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I – SUMMARY

Constitutional protection of the process and constitutional procedural law.

III – GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To study adequate and effective techniques to prevent or resolve conflicts based on the fundamental values and norms established in the Federal Constitution.

Consumer Protection as a Fundamental Right

Meetings: Meetings: To be agreed

The changes in the consumer market in recent years have significantly impacted the regulation and interpretation of various situations in consumer society. Technology has been a major driver of change, as while it has brought speed and simplification to relationships, it has also raised new questions and problems for the Law to resolve. Given the undeniable vulnerability of consumers, an adequate analysis of these new challenges submitted to the Judiciary is necessary, requiring careful reflection.

This research aims to study new situations currently being examined by courts and legal scholars in the field of Consumer Law.

Contemporary Challenges in Public Law: The Evolving Horizons of the Administrative-Constitutional Order

Meetings: Meetings: Biweekly on Mondays, from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Contemporary Challenges in Public Law: The evolving horizons of the administrative-constitutional order. Impacts of new phenomena on Constitutional Law, the constitutional framework of rights, Administrative Law, and Digital Law. Examination of optimal conditions for state responses in emergency scenarios. Maximum preservation of fundamental rights through state actions and public authority responses.
Research Group led by Prof. Dr. Anizio and Prof. Me. Lucas Moreschi Paulo.

Urban Law and the Right to the City

Meetings: Meetings: To be agreed

The Research Group on Urban Law and the Right to the City, led by Dr. Betânia de Moraes Alfonsin, was founded in 2009 and has conducted over 15 investigations focusing on the right to a sustainable city. Each year, the group formulates a research problem and dedicates itself to elucidating it using bibliographic sources, documentary evidence, and direct documentation through techniques such as interviews. With an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional composition, the group includes undergraduate researchers, specialists, master’s students, doctoral candidates, and Ph.D. holders. All research is published in scientific journals and collections, such as “The Right to the City as a Research Agenda“. Investigations last one to two years, and currently, the group is engaged in a study initiated in 2024, with no new members being accepted until 2026.