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Criminal Intervention and Garantism
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The study of the theory of crime, its history, and evolution. Causation. Neo-Kantianism. Finalism. Criminal Functionalism. Minimal Intervention: concept, evolution. Minimalist political-criminal instruments. The Objective Imputation Theory and punitive power limitation. Intra-dogmatic solutions for criminal minimalism. The punitive power; theories of justification of punishment; criminal abolitionism; alternatives to imprisonment. Criminal Schools and their link with punitive power limitation. Formation of the concept of legal interest. Positive School and the foundation of criminological thinking.
Line 1 Research Project:
1. CRIMINAL LAW IN THE PARADIGM OF THE DEMOCRATIC RULE OF LAW
Description: Theory of Crime and minimal intervention. Theory of Criminal Garantism. Critical criminology. Human Rights and Criminal Law. Constitutional values and principles applied to criminal law. The dignity of the human person and criminal law.
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Development and Public Policies
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Brazilian federalism and constitutionalism. Policy-making, implementation, and control of public policies. Economic development, public finance, tax system, and Public Administration.
Line 2 Research Project:
1.CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC POLICIES
Description: Interdisciplinary and interinstitutional study of the existing socioeconomic and political-legal relations among public policies, Administration, popular participation, regional and social inequalities, public finances, taxation and administrative-urban planning of the Brazilian urban space. Based on the principles of dignity of the human person, citizenship, economic development and the social function of property and of the city, as well as the contributive capacity and the formal and material constitutional limitations of the power to tax, the project analyzes budgetary and fiscal policies, the tax system, the processes of planning and of urban management and of public policies in Brazil, the interactions between civil society and the State, the usage of urban policy instruments in the national territory and the civil, administrative, and criminal liability of public officials resulting from the formulation and the implementation of public policies. Lastly, the team researches the promotion of sustainable, conventional and unconventional legal solutions, able to ensure egalitarian financial activity and taxation, the efficiency and the effectiveness of constitutional rights to the city and to housing in countries of peripheral modernity, such as Brazil. The project also analyzes the legal relations formed between citizen and Public Administration in the Democratic Rule of Law, especially regarding the usage of tutelary constitutional instruments for the protection of individual, collective and diffuse rights.
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Theory of Law and Justice
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Theories of Law. Theories of Justice. Law, justice and democracy. Legal Institutions. History of Legal Institutions. Law and Literature. Law, Justice and Taxation. Researches focusing on comprehension and argumentative configuration of the central elements of Law and Justice in a context marked by the commitment to Democracy and Human Rights.
Line 3 Research Project:
1.JUSTICE, LAW AND SOCIETY
Description: The present project contains two axes that, although didactically autonomous, relate in order to form a coherent whole: (i) justice: concepts and theories, and (ii) justice and society: effectiveness of justice.
The first axis has as its general objective to study the concept of justice, its evolution, the different classical and contemporary theories of justice — as well as its deployment on the design of concrete public policies such as taxation/budget, etc. — and the relationship between justice, institutions and concrete legal institutes, also considering its canonical sources and its historical evolution.
The second axis aims to study ways of realization of justice, either through access to the judicial branch or through public policies for the realization of rights through non-judicial means, encompassing empirical research.