Seminar
The stance of cooperativism in Latin America: a Law perspective

Eduardo Faria Silva (Federal University of Paraná)

June 30th, 2009, 17:00, CES Seminar Room

 
Presentation

The analysis proposed seeks to contemplate the political and economical transformations implemented in Latin America, namely in Brazil, since the 1960’s, within which reside indications that a possible unique judicial matrix may exist, orientating positivated law from all Latin America States, as what pertains to cooperativism, deepening the dependency and subsidiarity of the economies of the Continent.

This historical course and the inter-relations carried out demonstrate that the comprehension of Latin-American countries’ political and economic reality must be followed by the perception that the function that law exercises in the adequacy of those interests, by means of judicial techniques of elaboration of legislative and hermeneutical texts, that allow the predictability and security in instrumentalization of planning.

 
Biographic Note

Eduardo Faria Silva is a doctoral student within the Post-graduate Programme in Law at the Federal University of Paraná, in doctoral traineeship at the Centre for Social Studies (CES); member of the Cooperative Law and Citizenship Research Group within the Post-graduate Programme in Law at the Federal University of Paraná (NDCC/UFPR); member of the National Network for Lawyers and Popular Lawyers (RENAP) and founding-member of the Brazilian chapter of the Latin-American Institute for Alternative Legal Systems (ILSA).

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