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The Red Internacional sobre Justicia, Política y Derecho (REDIJUS) is a network that allies different scientific areas  (Constitutional Law, Political Sociology of Law - sociology of constitutions; political sociology of the penal field; Linguistics and law, Sociology of the State, Law and Justice, Political Science and Administration, Political Philosophy and Law and Justice Administration Studies), aggregating researchers from 15 different Universities from Brazil, Colombia, Spain, France, Mexico, Portugal, Tunisia.

This network is based on the recognition that critical reflections on Law, Politics and Justice presuppose a discussion on the changes in legal rationalities, which guide the social order in its economic, political and social dimensions. In the last four decades, the emergence of the new rationalities of globalisation and the technification of the world-system have modified the practical reasons of Law and Justice, highlighting tensions that result from the confrontation of opposing rationalities, underlying the justice system, that is, the cognitive-instrumental rationality and the moral-practical rationality.

Thus, the intention is to develop diagnoses and studies, with the purpose of deepening the knowledge of the relationship between the Judiciary and the other powers of the State (Legislative and Executive); as well as, in the analysis of experiences and models of self-government, where the already classic dialectic between the judicialization of politics and the politicization of justice becomes evident. Likewise, it is fundamental to focus on the relationship between Justice and society, in the perspective of social conflicts and their presence/absence in court, without forgetting the dimension of the provision of Justice in a constitutionalised social State, which highlights its facet of public service or the so-called judicial accountability. Finally, the Network intends to study the “Law of the Courts in action”, from the understanding of its political functions as sovereign bodies: guaranteeing access to justice and protection of rights, legitimacy of the Rule of Law; its instrumental nature, for conflict resolution and social control; and, finally, at symbolic level: social justice, guarantees, peace and social integration.