Raphael Cezar da Silva Neves

• Abstract

  There is a field of scholarship that has been pointing out the importance of law - norms, institutions, and legal practices - to the concept and implementation of public policies. However, what are the law roles when policy initiatives are administered and implemented by communities not by the State? This is the question addressed by this project through a socio-legal study of the respons…

  LAW, DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY-BASED POLICIES: a socio-legal study of the favela of Paraisópolis response to the covid-19 pandemic, BP.IC

• Abstract

  Since Roe v. Wade, abortion has become a legal procedure in the United States. The rationale used to try the case, however, did not please many groups who currently question it and threaten the validity of that right, as seen from the recent appointment of Amy Barrett to the office of the Supreme Court, a fact that guarantees a Republican majority and therefore a "pro-life" advantage in t…

  Access to Abortion as a Fundamental Right: An Essay on Private Autonomy and Gender Inequality., BP.IC

• Abstract

  In view of the relevance of civil disobedience to contemporary political theory and practice, the present project seeks to interpret the concept in the work of Jürgen Habermas, relating it to the tension between civil society and the State in the process of legitimation. In an important recent contribution, Civil Disobedience (2018), William E. Scheuerman presents difficulties in his inte…

  The tension between civil society and state in the legitimation process: civil disobedience in the philosophy of Jürgen Habermas, BP.IC

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