The existence of monetary instruments complementary to those so-called 'official' ones is not a recent phenomenon. Throughout history, many have been the forms and occasions in which complementary currencies were put in ...

This study aims to address the following question: what was the influence transnational regulation of Fair Trade had on the construction of the Brazilian public regulatory framework on fair and solidarity trade - Sistema ...

At this research we have studied the judicial conflict around Belo Monte´s Dam, judged by Supremo Tribunal Federal (the Brazilian Supreme Court), to understand the relations between discourses of development and constitutional ...

The episode known as Carandiru Massacre resulted in at least 111 dead inmates. Their bodies were underwent thru autopsies by the Forensic Institute in São Paulo generating its reports. Since they were drafted, the forensic ...

The objective of this research is to understand how public actors who participated, directly or indirectly, of the so-called 'Operation Legal Downtown' of 2012, qualified, in their speech, their vision around the use of ...

In 2007, the government of São Paulo created a public policy called the 'Programa de Estímulo à Cidadania Fiscal' (Fiscal Citizenship Enforcement Program), more commonly referred to as the 'Nota Fiscal Paulista' (São Paulo’s ...

The main objective of this dissertation is to understand the Legislative activities and your interaction among Judiciary and Executive in terms of enforcement of criminal sanction. The considered assumption is that the ...