Seminar

Participatory democracy and the justice system: the case of the Public Defender of São Paulo - Brazil

Maurício Buosi Lemes (FDRP/USP)

March 25, 2019, 14h30

Room 2, CES | Alta

Overview

The seminar will seek to present and debate the model of access to justice instituted by the Public Defender's Office of the State of São Paulo (DPESP - Brazil), focusing on the mechanisms of interaction with civil society created by the institution, especially its popular participation Conference Series. Partial results of the ongoing research will be presented, the main objective of which is to carry out a case study of the DPESP Conferences Series from 2007 to 2017, in order to analyse how this mechanism of popular participation in management has been understood, disputed and steered by institutional actors and politically organised civil society.

Bio note
Maurício Buosi Lemes holds a law degree from the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto Law School (FDRP/USP). Currently, he is an MA candidate at the FDRP/USP Post-Graduate Programme in Law, under supervison of Fabiana Cristina Severi, developing a research project on access to justice, democratisation of the Brazilian justice system, popular participation and the Public Defender's Office, with the support of the Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP). He is conducting a research internship at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES/UC), on the accountability of justice systems and with the support of FAPESP.