Entre Normas e Práticas: Pesquisa Empírica no Direito em Diálogo com as Ciências Sociais

Abstract

This Dossier brings together articles with an emphasis on empirical research, using various methods from the Social Sciences, qualitative and quantitative, including mixed methods - such as ethnography, fieldwork, participant observation, direct observation, contrastive comparison, formal or informal interviews, retrospective longitudinal flow analysis, discourse analysis and analysis of official documents, including with software such as NVIVO, SPSS and Microsoft Excel. The articles also bring critical and reflexive argumentation about the current Brazilian legal system, making explicit its contradictions, its dilemmas, its specificities and its “senses of justice”, especially when contrasting laws, doctrines, and the ideal types of legal dogmatics to judicial and court practices. This dossier also articulates authors who work at several universities, public and private, from various states and regions of Brazil - Pontifícia Mackenzie de São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Santa Úrsula and Universidade Veiga de Almeida – who are representative of researchers’ networks on the field of Law in Brazil, some of them well established and consolidated. This publication also shed light upon activities related to the post-doctoral research project FAPERJ nota 10, entitled "Between Norms and Practices: Paradoxes in the Institutional Administration of Criminal Cases in the Brazilian Legal-Police Model in Comparative Perspective". This project, still in progress, is being executed in the Núcleo de Pesquisa em Administração Institucional de Conflitos of the Graduate Program in Law at the Universidade Veiga de Almeida, both linked to the Instituto de Estudos Comparados em Administração de Conflitos. Far from a single institutional representation, the mentioned post-doctoral research has also aimed, since its beginning, at promoting the dialogue between social sciences and applied social sciences, especially between social sciences and Law, focusing on research that is not only "about" Law, but also carried out “with” Law, notably represented here by its operators and researchers, as authors of the articles of this dossier. It is an effort, among others, to contribute to the construction of a tradition of inter-institutional and interdisciplinary dialogue of research with Law, in which the Juris Poiesis Journal, linked to the Graduate Program in Law at Universidade Estácio de Sá, is a fundamental, consolidated and permanent space for the promotion and dissemination of such empirical work. For this publication, the contributions of 27 authors were received and approved, represented in 16 texts.