Abstract

The concept and law of human rights state that every individual can make letigitimate claims on certain liberties and benefits. Human rights are a moral-based political idea, connected to the notions of justice, equality and democracy.  They are the expression of the relationship that should prevail between the members of a society and between individuals and States. The real international integration of Brazil in the context of globalization requires, mainly, the improvement of the democratic State by means of the standard intersection between our constitutional law and international law, within the constant maintenance of fundamental guarantees and rights of the human being, through Education and quality teaching.

By performing an historical review of the legal teaching in Brazil, we see the influence of the University of Coimbra, as standard of intellectuality and of what was attempted to reproduce in colonial geography (although, sometimes, in a reverse colonialism), from the first Law School, Largo de São Francisco, to the most recently recognized institutions.

Thus, this seminar intends to explain, through the use of several examples, how the concept and law of human rights appear in the Brazilian context and how this has also been promoted in the field of legal studies.

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Biographic Note

Doctor in Social Relations Law by the the Federal University of Paraná (2001) and Master in Social Relations Law by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1996) with Conceito A (highest evaluation ranking), Judge at the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná, author of philosophic, educational and pedagogic projects of the Law School of Campos Gerais (Conceito A by MEC [Ministry of Education] and OAB-Conselho Federal [Lawyers' Association - Federal Council]) Member of the Brazilian Institute for Procedural Law. Member of the Board of Revista de Processo - Pesquisa, of Editora Revista dos Tribunais, Associate Member of the Brazilian Institute for Politics and Consumer Rights, permanent member of the Centre of Humanities of Paraná and of Jose de Alencar Literary Academy, holder of chair 19 of the Literary Academy of Minas Gerais. Former researcher of TJPR for the Konrad Adenauer Institute - Criminal Law and Human Rights. Former researcher of CNPQ, lecturer at the State University of Ponta Grossa from 1985 to 2000, Professor at the Law School of Campos Gerais, pedagogical coordinator at the Law School of Campos Gerais, former president of the 'Turma Recursal Única dos Juizados Especiais Cíveis e Criminais do Estado do Paraná' (Board of Appeals of the Civil and Criminal Special Courts of the State of Paraná), researcher and author of books about Special Courts, Human Rights, Civil Procedural Law and Regional Integration Law.