Coordinator: Profº Fernando de Castro Fontainha

Description:The present project intends to induce the formation of an integrated pole of international discussions about problems related to law and its relationship with society and politics in different contexts. It arises with the aggregation of the proponent to the Institute of Social and Political Studies of UERJ (IESP-2015), and the recent foundation of the research group that he leads: Research Center in Law and social sciences – DECISO. The academic production shows that, at the present moment, it is possible to affirm the sociology of law as a matured field of research in the Brazilian context. The objective of this project is to highlight this fact, explaining the need for a more precise cut in favor of a political sociology of law − a specific field that has a long history of intellectual consolidation. The construction of this cycle of expansion imposes a series of reflections on: 1) The trajectory of the sociology of law in the context of Brazilian sociology; 2) Its broader dialogue with the other social sciences; 3) Its relationship with international sociology; 4) The theoretical and methodological advances of this discipline; and 5) Their dilemmas and challenges in front of the contemporary problems. The project focuses mainly on the following topics: recruitment, training, trajectory and performance of legal elites, social and political organization of the judiciary, and the relationship among legal institutions, occupational hierarchies and daily work of jurists. The Graduate Program in Sociology (UERJ), the Graduate Program in Law (UERJ), Ecole Doctorale de Science Politique de l'Université de Montpellier 1 (France), The Master Program in Political Legal Sciences at the Agostinho Neto University (Angola) are articulated in this proposal.