Operating Standards
The operating rules of the Stricto Sensu Master's Graduate Program are established in the Program Regulations. It is important to highlight, however, three moments considered decisive for progression in the program.
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. The selection process involves the following steps:
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. Obtaining a Master’s Degree in Law
To obtain the Master's Degree in Law, the student must complete 450 hours of the course and demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language.
Overall Picture of the Program
Field of Concentration
Social Rights and Public Policies
Lines of Research
1. Public policies for social inclusion
2. Contemporary Constitutionalism
Training subjects (120 hours)
Research and Teaching Methodology (30 hours) Drª. Mônia Clarissa Hennig Leal - The course aims to address the presuppositions of legal science and teaching, based on the development and reflection of content associated with the specifics of research, epistemology, and teaching in the social sciences and in the field of law. It also aims to address the aspects surrounding the link between epistemological and theoretical presuppositions for researching and teaching about social rights and public policies, as well as the scientific elements and techniques instrumental in both. This will enable the master's degree holder to adequately carry out his or her activities throughout the course and the writing of his or her thesis, while also preparing him or her to act as a teacher.
Theory of Law (30 hours) Drª. Caroline Muller Bitencourt - The course aims to address the main legal currents that influence the modern and contemporary legal thought, in order to prepare students for critical understanding of the legal phenomenon and its implications on the current legal practice.
State and Public Administration (30 hours) Dr. Rogério Gesta Leal - The course aims to develop research into the causes and vectors that give rise to the current national administrative policy framework, particularly in the management of public interest on the jurisdiction of the State Administrator, checking their roles and challenges in terms of finding solutions to social demands, and propose new instruments and mechanisms for political and legal intervention in these scenarios, guided by democratic principles and social justice.
Human and Fundamental Rights (30 hours) Dr. Clóvis Gorczevski - The theoretical object of concern that is intended to be developed in this course is confront issues involving the state, the law, human and fundamental rights, and democracy, in a multidisciplinary, historical and critical perspective, highlighting how such issues are presented in the country today.
Concentration Courses (180 hours)
Public Policies for Social Inclusion
Management of Public Policies (30 hours) Dr. João Pedro Schmidt - The course aims to provide students an understanding of the conceptual aspects that involve the term public policy, the elements involved in the creation and implementation of government policies and the identification of relevant actors in the space of political decisions.
Theories of Contemporary Politics (30 hours) Dr. André Viana Custódio - The course addresses contemporary concept of politics, notably through the analysis of power and the question of democracy, seeing how they are inserted, mainly, in the Brazilian scene. Therefore, it will cover traditional and contemporary epistemological and reflexive assumptions.
Citizenship and Public Space (30 hours) Drª. Marli Marlene Moraes da Costa - The theme that is addressed in this course creates opportunities for a critical view of paradigms in the context of contemporary social relations, involving Law, Public Space and Citizenship, with special emphasis on the participation ofcitizens in the processes of constitution of Brazilian politics.
Local Authority and Social Integration (30 hours) Dr. Ricardo Hermany - The course aims to discuss the possibilities of local power build a space for the construction of a new relationship between the state public space and the society, from a logic of (re)foundation of the State, based on effective integration between State and Society in the process of setting and implementation of public policies.
Public Safety Policies (30 hours) Dr. Rogério Gesta Leal - This discipline aims to address the complex issue of public security policies from international and national perspectives, verifying to what extent, particularly in Brazil, it is possible to establish public security policy models in line with the demands of the current Democratic State of Law, and how this is reflected, in particular, in the experiences of municipalities and States, aiming to configure effective national public security systems.
Public Policies in dealing with conflicts (30 hours) Drª. Fabiana Marion Spengler - The course aims to define and discuss the performance of the state's judicial function, then identify treatment strategies that open the view of the complexity of contemporary social conflicts, proposing a model of approach of these conflicts, seated in a democratic perspective and in the direction of consensus.
Contemporary Constitutionalism
Theories of Democracy in Contemporary Constitutionalism (30 hours) Drª. Denise da Silva Bittencourt - Seeks to analyze the spaces for participation and social representation that liberal, participatory, and deliberative democracy opens, in order to evaluate the democratization of the management of public policies.
Constitutional Jurisdiction (30 hours) Drª. Mônia Clarissa Hennig Leal - The theoretical object of concern that is intended to be developed in this course aims to challenge topics that enable the understanding of the meaning of contemporary constitutionalism, understood as the constitutionalism of the Democratic State by Law, which all evidence implies the necessary understanding of the relationship between the constitution and constitutional jurisdiction.
Contemporary Labor Relations (30 hours) Drª. Suzete da Silva Reis - This course seeks to examine the various formulations of the ideals of equality and liberty, interrelated in the field of labor law within modern constitutional democracies and from the perspective of the capitalist mode of production. In particular, it will examine theoretical propositions aimed at overcoming the real and apparent antinomies between the Principle of Equality and the Principle of Liberty, in the context of contracts that involve subordinate labor, considering labor as a driving force of social inclusion. In addition to a doctrinal approach, the course aims to examine court cases and aspects of national and international legislation addressing the same topic. The theoretical framework for this course will have the Theory of Legal Argumentation as its epistemological basis.
The Effectiveness of Fundamental Social Rights (30 hours) Drª. Rosana Helena Maas - The theory of fundamental social rights. Fundamental social rights in Brazilian and comparative law. The justiciability of fundamental social rights. The fundamental right to health and its judicialization in the Federal Supreme Court. Fundamental social rights in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the justiciability of the right to health. Fundamental social rights, political participation, and access to information.
Constitutionalization of Private Law (30 hours) Dr. Jorge Renato dos Reis - This course aims to define the study of the constitutionalization of private law proceedings, questioning the traditional distinction between public law and private law, as well as between this phenomenon and the Publicization of Private Law.
Constitutional Foundations of Public Service (30 hours) Dr. Janriê Rodrigues Reck - This course aims to present, discuss and offer a critique of the specific conception of the constitutional organization of economic life, which is that which distinguishes two legal categories of economic activity based on a dichotomy that separates arts. 173 and 175 of the Federal Constitution ("public services" x "economic activities in the strict sense"). In particular, it aims to explore the topic from the perspective of the energy industry, with particular reference to the electricity sector.
Dissertation Project Defense (60 hours)
Defense before the examining board (until the end of the second semester)
Dissertation (60 hours)
Writing the Thesis (under advisor’s supervision)
