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The Due Process in the Construction of the Democratic Rule of Law
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The due process as an axial institute of democratic constitutionality conceived in theoretical paradigms of continued discourse in the space-time of procedural taxation. Administrative and judicial problematization (proceduralized taxation) of the institutional and informative contents of the will of the legislator (mens legislatoris) and the will of the law (mens legis) as an assumption of constructive, modifying, deconstructive, reconstructive or extinct legitimacy of the legal system in its aspects of duration, validity, efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency in the Democratic Rule of Law paradigm.
Line 1 Research Project:
1. CONSTITUTIONAL MODEL OF PROCESS AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN THE DEMOCRATIC RULE OF LAW
Description: This project is part of the research line of the Postgraduate Program in Law at PUC Minas, called "the process in the construction of the process in the Democratic Rule of Law" from the definition of its theoretical framework, since it aims to study the foundations of the legal system from an adequate reading of the set of constitutional procedural rules, fundamental rights, of individual and collective rights, and a critical analysis of reform proposals based on a democratic understanding of the process, which guarantees to those affected participation in the construction of provision and a normatively adequate structure, as a counterpoint to the concepts of a publicist and neoliberal matrix, which are still structured on inquisitorial bases, of co-optation from the public to the private, and not on dialogical bases.
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Human Rights, Integration and Plurinational State
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Critical, historical, and theoretical studies of Human Rights, regional integration processes and the experience of building a Plurinational State and its contribution to an International Law in transformation. The reality of international relations from different theoretical frameworks; challenges and contemporary obstacles for the continuity of regional integration processes and for international law and international organizations in face of migratory, climate, commercial and hybrid issues in today's world.
Line 2 Research Project:
1. INTERNATIONAL LAW IN TRANSFORMATION: PERSPECTIVES AND ALTERNATIVES
Description: From a critical theoretical reading, the project studies the contemporary challenges posed by a world-system of great complexity. Perception and construction of diagnoses and possible directions or paths to the alternatives needed for the deep contemporary crisis. For this, the interdisciplinary study, aiming at transdisciplinary solutions, starts from the dialogue, among other fields of knowledge, international law, international relations and constitutional law, especially, in the latter, the plurinational alternatives for coexistence in diversity and dialogue among knowledge areas, diverse normative systems and cultures, and how these experiences can contribute to the reflections of an International Law in transformation.
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Democratic Constitutionalism
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Study of the fundamental concepts of democracy and constitutionalism, with the purpose of enabling research on the theoretical and practical interdependence of the two structuring dimensions of the State and society in contemporaneity. Study of fundamental rights and means of formal and informal social participation in the public-political sphere as indispensable elements of the Democratic Rule of Law, especially in late contexts of political, social and economic development intending to improve institutionalized political and jurisdictional rights.
Line 3 Research Project:
1. FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, AND CONSTITUTIONAL JURISDICTION
Description: This project investigates the promotion of fundamental rights by means of the participation of civil society in the deliberative-democratic processes and in the preventive and successive actions of the Brazilian constitutional jurisdiction's instruments. Studies are also directed to the examination of the various means of formal and informal social participation in the public-political sphere, as essential elements to the Democratic Rule of Law, especially in late contexts of political, social, and economic development, in order to improve political and institutionalized judicial rights. Society and the State are evaluated on their self-constitutive potentialities, overcoming the dichotomy and liberal oppositions, which is an essential premise for the accomplishment of fundamental rights. As a background, the project considers that the State and the Law in complex societies are no longer able to seek justification in the exclusive sphere of autonomy of will or in popular sovereignty, being necessary to ponder on dialogical formulations of concepts concerning the public sphere.