Operating Standards
The operating standards for the Master’s Degree and Doctorate in Law programs may be accessed through its Regiment. It is important to highlight that there are three very decisive moments for students who want to join this program, which are:
I. Selection Process
Candidates will be selected by a selection committee, following criteria previously established in a public notice designed by the Program’s coordination committee. In any event, the admission process for the Master’s and Doctorate program is a two-step process in which the applicant must pass on the first one in order to participate on the second part.
The steps are:
1 st stage:
Analysis of the candidate's Lattes Curriculum.
2 nd stage:
a) Interview,
b) Analysis of the research project
II. Second Language Proficiency
After admission to the Master's program, the student must demonstrate proficiency in one of the following languages: Spanish, English, French, German or Italian – which is a prerequisite for defending the dissertation.III. Second Language Proficiency
Students will be requested to present proof of proficiency in foreign languages. Master’s degree students are required to show proof of proficiency in one foreign language, while Doctorate students must be fluent in two foreign languages. Proof of proficiency may be in Spanish, French, German or Italian and it must be shown before presenting the thesis or dissertation, being a pre-requisite for the presentation of the final paper.
III. Obtaining the Doctorate in Law
To obtain the Doctorate, the student must complete 450 hours of the course anddemonstrate proficiency in a foreign language.
Structre of the doctoral proposal (450 hours)
Field of Concentration - Social Rights and Public Policies
Fundamental Disciplines (135 hours)
Procedural Theories on Shared Public Management (45 hours) Dr. Rogério Gesta Leal - This seminar addresses the issue that involves theoretical and normative matrices of public management existing in Brazil, especially those involving the executive branch (Federal, State and Municipal), then propose a procedural methodology of shared management between State and Society of community interests, evaluating, exemplarily, which legal and political instruments exist for such duty.
Theories on Public Policies (45 hours) Dr. João Pedro Schmidt - The seminar deals with relevant theories and themes of political science and social science in order to understand the public policies and their interrelations with the political process (politics) and the political and institutional environment (polity). At first the seminar deals with the discussion of classical texts on conceptual and methodological aspects of politics. The approach of political cycle will be deepened due to its richness and fruitfulness. A second moment is dedicated to the characteristics and specificities of public policies in Brazil. In light of the historical heritage of political relations marked by clientelism, paternalism and authoritarianism, the presence of a non-democratic political culture and the low stock of social capital in the country, conditions will be investigated for the construction of a pattern of public policies compatible with the republicans’ ideals and participatory democracy, with special attention to public-private relations, the establishing of an expanded public sphere and the construction of a legal framework of the non-state public.
The fundamentality of Political Participation Rights (45 hours) Dr. Clóvis Gorczevski - This seminar aims to address issues involving the state, the society and democratic political participation in the search for reasons that justify the implementation of public policies intended to achieve the Fundamental Social Human Rights. It addresses the political and legal tools to enable social participation in the development and execution of these policies.Therefore, it is paramount act in a multidisciplinary perspective, political, historical and critical, from the emergence of the modern state.
Subjects of Thematic Relevance – 180 hours each
Thematic axis: Diversity and Public Policies
Intersections Between Public and Private (45 hours) Dr. Jorge Renato dos Reis - This seminar discusses the public-private dichotomy, in the current socio, legal and political context, in view of the various ambiences in which this paradigm is inserted, either in civil and constitutional law, or administrative and constitutional law. It will check the interlacing fields of these institutions in the context tutored by the infra-constitutional norm, but always interpreted in the light of the Brazilian Constitution.
Social and Local Empowerment (45 hours) Dr. Ricardo Hermany - This seminar intends to discuss the issue of social empowerment through the local solidary governance paradigm, assessing the possibilities and prospects of formation of local public policies.
Generational Rights, Diversity and Public Policy Systems (45 hours) Dr. André Viana Custódio - This seminar aims to discuss the guarantee of generational rights based on age dimension of the subjective holders and their relationship with the issues of identity, diversity and minorities, assuring strategies for adoption of public policy systems in the contemporary Brazil.
Thematic axis: Instrumental dimensions of Public Policies
Judicial Review of Public Policies (45 hours) Drª. Mônia C. Hennig Leal - This seminar intends to discuss the pertaining issues to judicial review of public policies, with particular focus on the issues surrounding the institutional possibilities of jurisdictional control and its relation with public policy, as well as the judiciary performance limits in this sense, from the perspective of separation of powers, with particular emphasis on the theoretical aspects, from which we intend to do the analysis and discussion of specific decisions handed down in the Brazilian context.
Legal Theory of Public Policies and Federal Public Powers (45 hours) Dr. Janriê Rodrigues Reck - The legal concept of public policy. Relationships with the systemic concept of law and politics. Application of systems theory to organizations and public policy. Decision theory in public policy. Connections between organizations, federalism, and powers. Federal public powers. Elements of the legal concept of public policy and its legal instruments. The legal formulation and implementation of public policy. Justice in and of public policy.
Social and Administrative Control of Public Policies (45 hours) Drª. Caroline Muller Bitencourt – This seminar seeks to understand the theoretical elements that constitute social and administrative control and its importance in dealing with public policies and to discuss the mechanisms of social and administrative control, with a critical view in relation to existing means and their possible obstacles and, proactive in relation to new forms of control or refinement of current forms.
Public Policies for Access to Justice (45 hours) Drª. Fabiana Marion Spengler - Conflict. Legitimized violence. Access to justice. Crisis of jurisdiction. Self-composition and heterocomposition. Culture of war and culture of peace. Alternative means of conflict resolution. Brazilian public policies for access to justice.
Elective Activities (15 horas)
Complementary phase, considered necessary or convenient to complete the student's training.
Thesis Project Defense (60 hours)
Orientation and defense before the examining board (until the end of the second year of the program).
Defense of the Thesis (60 hours)
Writing the thesis (under the supervision of the supervising professor)
