Moderator: Paula Casaleiro (CES)

Overview

Impunity is generally perceived as an inability or even a timely unwillingness by the courts to apply the law. Impunity is greater or lesser depending on the actors in conflict and is a transnational phenomenon when it comes to people with significant economic, political or even symbolic power. In order to better analyse the phenomenon of “impunity”, as well as its characteristics, it is necessary to take into account aspects such as the trajectory and role of institutions, the choice or application of more lenient laws, differentiated procedural treatment or a flexible system of appeals against judicial decisions, among others.

This seminar, based on the Brazilian context, seeks to reflect, grounded on empirical studies and professional experiences, on how institutional design is able to relativise punitive instruments for political elites, hindering the possibility of punitive action, favouring impunity and causing mutations in the state punitive system with repercussions on the political system itself and on the public perception of the courts’ actions regarding the political class.


Bio notes

Ernani Rodrigues de Carvalho Neto, Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco
Nino Toldo, Judge and Director of the School of Magistrates of the Federal Justice of the 3rd Region

Registration is free but compulsory.
 

Organisers

(OPJ) - Permanent Observatory for Justice - Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra
opj@ces.uc.pt | (+351) 239 855 570 / (+351) 914 140 187 | https://opj.ces.uc.pt/