Law
Overview
The Graduate Program in Law (PPGD) began its journey in 2013 with the approval of its Master's in Law program. This program, focusing on "Law and Society," achieved a CAPES score of 4, qualifying it to apply for a Doctoral program. On June 6, 2019, the proposal for the new Doctoral program was approved, solidifying the Graduate Program in Law. The Program's research is fundamentally guided by the following questions: a) the positivization of Law and its enforcement by society; b) observing social transformations and understanding how they influence and modify Law; c) the discrepancy between codified law and Brazilian social reality.

Specialization Area
The specialization area Law and Society investigates the relationship between law and social transformations, analyzing the effectiveness of legal norms and the modern challenges of law enforcement. The focus is on the interaction between legislation, institutions and social reality, considering the impact of political, cultural, and economic changes on the legal structure.
Target Audience
Graduates of Unilasalle's Graduate Program in Law are equipped with critical and analytical skills, alongside expertise in research and teaching. They excel in academia, the judiciary, legal practice, and legal consulting, contributing to scientific development and modern legal solutions.
Graduate Profile
The graduate of the Unilasalle Law Graduate Program has a critical and analytical background, with research and teaching skills. She works with excellence in academia, the judiciary, law and legal consultancies, contributing to scientific development and modern legal solutions.
Research Areas
Current Applications
Projeto V-Clima
Aluno Regular 2025/2
Master's Degree
Doctoral Degree
Research Areas
The Law Graduate Program is consolidated with a focus on researching fundamental issues, such as the affirmation of law and its compliance by society, social transformations and their impact on legislation, and the distance between the regulatory text and the Brazilian reality.
Line 1 - Effectiveness of Law in the Society
Focused on the issue of Law's legitimacy before society, that is, how the process of the state's production of laws is received and complied with by society. Therefore, its goal is also to examine society's expectations about the laws in force and how it reacts in terms of both the Law implementation process and new law-drafting proposals. Likewise, it looks into the growing expectations created with respect to the Courts' work, either because of the other branches' lack of effective work or the increasing number of laws enacted. Consequently, it examines the role played by Institutions in the way Law is enforced, and thereby tries to find the reasons for its low coercion rates in (the Brazilian) society. The program seeks to understand the effectiveness of laws in an ever-changing society.
Topics Addressed
• Multiculturalism at the bases of democratic constitutionalism;
• Guarantees instituted in the new South American constitutionalism;
• State and Social Control of Scientific Research in the Field of Human Health: Limits and Possibilities;
• Social theories of Law and the thoughts of Jürgen Habermas: Communicative process and the application of discourse ethics to the relationships;
• The Principles of Public Administration and the Legitimacy of Administrative Law: democratization and effectiveness;
• An in-depth discussion about the possibility of applying the principle of precaution in view of the legal-constitutional regulations;
• The judicial branch in review: access to justice, contemporary difficulties, and prognoses.
Line 2 - Society and Fragmentation of Law
It builds on the assumption that Law was devised based on the notion of Nation-State because there was a correspondence with the characteristics of a society that provided the conditions for it to emerge and affirm itself. Hence, to the extent that the global society is presenting characteristics that it is operating in a network and clearly tending toward eliminating borders, the Law devised and applied based on the notions of hierarchy and Nation-States is undergoing a time of change. Its fragmentation therefore derives from – interdisciplinary – social forces that operate on it and generate decisive changes. With that, the program seeks to encompass the juridicization process of (real and virtual) social spheres, the production of Non-State Law, the need for alternatives to the process of legitimizing the production of laws, and addressing the formation of private and public law outside of (and separate from) the State.
Temáticas Abordadas
• The Effectiveness and Fragmentation of Law in Contemporary Society: juridicization of social spheres and multiple legal contexts;
• Impacts and legitimacy of court decisions;
• Production of crime, law and society: dogmatic and empirical eyes on the culture of fear and the urban space;
• Alternative, guarantist, labeled: the history of humanist judges in RS.
• Adoption by Homosexuals and Same-Sex Parenting Legitimized by the judicial branch
• Making cracks in the walls of the society of the spectacle;
• Criminal Justice and Restorative Justice: criminalization processes and analysis of the mechanisms to manage criminal conflicts;
• Building Participatory Citizenship in the Constitutional Democracy and the Discussion about Justice.
Temáticas Abordadas
Research Groups
A Sociedade Global em movimento: Direito, Instituições Internacionais e Cooperação Internacional
O direito e a sociedade global no âmbito de suas interações convivem com variáveis complexas no atual mundo globalizado. Críticas a globalização e a efetividade do direito por meio da cooperação internacional e das instituições internacionais e suas falhas em contribuir para um mundo mais inclusivo desincentivam as ações de governança global. O grupo de pesquisa visa analisar as ações de cooperação internacional nos seus mais variados âmbitos do direito, por meio das instituições internacionais e dos Estados, a partir das mudanças que ocorrem na sociedade global, no direito e na política nos últimos dez anos. Os estudos visam a constatar se a sociedade global a partir do direito, das instituições internacionais e da cooperação internacional se baseia nos princípios de efetividade e eficiência democráticas, pois ainda que esse processo tenha a intenção de ser participativo, não substitui as instituições democráticas de características estatais por envolver apenas os atores interessados no processo de governança, não representando a totalidade dos cidadãos.
Criminalização, Direito e Sociedade
Encontro 1 - 21/03: Consumo na prisão: Apresentação da mestranda Tatiane
Encontro 2 - 11/04: Foucault (Vigiar e Punir) Apresentação de Valdir e Evelin
Encontro 3 - 18/04: Texto: “Gerenciando a coexistência: uma comparação entre mulheres e homens no trabalho de agentes prisionais”
Encontro 4 - 16/05: Pecan: Apresentação do doutorando Valdir
Encontro 5 - 23/05: Texto “Periferia e prisão, pobres e presos: coincidências espaciais e demográficas em Porto Alegre”
Encontro 6 - 13/06: Texto: “As interpretações do tempo em uma prisão de mulheres”.
Encontro 7 - 20/06: Texto: “A saúde mental de infratores presos numa unidade prisional da cidade do Salvador”
Pluralismo e Direitos Humanos: diálogos culturais transfronteiriços
Discover the Program's Productions

Doutoranda do PPG em Educação da Unilasalle recebe Troféu Destaque no VII Seminário Internacional sobre a Teoria da Justiça de Amartya Sen 2023

8ª edição do Congresso Internacional Sociology of Law

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação abre seleção para alunos estrangeiros

Professor da Unilasalle coordenou workshop em Congresso Internacional na Coreia do Sul
Read our Productions

Animais não-humanos e a vedação de crueldade: o STF no rumo de uma jurisprudência intercultural
Comittees and Events
Qualification, Dissertations and Theses Comittees
Events
Self-Evaluation
The results of the evaluation processes are disclosed, analyzed and discussed in order to identify potentialities and weaknesses, which serve as a support for the strategic planning of the Graduate Program, always aimed at implementing improvements.