Our Mission

Law and Praxis is an academic journal published by the UERJ Graduate Law Program's Theory and Philosophy of Law research line. Our mission is the diffusion of academic papers on Theory and Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law and Political Philosophy, and also interdisciplinary research based on critical methodologies and approaches.

Our Mission

Revista Direito e Práxis, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Published: 2024

Latest articles

The concept of theory and its function in four types of legal research.

Violence in the arrest and the dichotomy of the system: a discussion about informal hearings of adolescents and pre-trial hearings for adults in Brazil

Unveiling the institutional arrangements in the criminalization of indigenous peoples: the logic of the enemy in the case of the Indigenous People Xukuru of Ororubá

On promised lands: deintrusion as redress and the contrivance of land-grabbing

The Uberization of Criminal Records: work impediments and legal legitimacies

Coordinates and trajectories of a judicialization process. An ethnographic reading of the experience of the Arhuaco indigenous people's search for justice in Colombia

What's new? Rethinking the juridical link between the IMF and Human Rights

Remote work and law: mapping normative production in a pandemic

Social security and destabilization of the epistemic subject by queer theory: an expansive proposal for the protection of gender transition by Social Assistance

The question of “reasonable suspicion” in Brazil: methodological challenges and research opportunities

The use of intersectionality in criminology

Freedom to learn and teach reflections based on Interamerican Human Rights System

The growth of Law Schools in the Brazilian Higher Education Expansion Panorama, 1964-2019

The use of social-emotional skills by mediadotors as a pratice inherent to self-composition

Slightly illegal: female positions and perceptions of law from The Girl in the Photograph, by Lygia Fagundes Telles

The relevance of the Ellwanger case to the recent Brazilian Supreme Court judgments on freedom of expression

Multiculturalism and Indigenous Rights in Latin America

Law, violence and social movements: reflections from the case of the movement for the removal of statues

The law of the oppressed: storytelling in (poetic) legal arguments

The detainees’ families in the second instance: decisions from the Court of Justice of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

News

Representing the Humanities collection on the SciELO platform (2022-2023)

SciELO Program pays tribute to the 70th anniversary of the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT)

Paper mills

The influence of implicit biases on the adoption of DEIA principles

Large Language Publishing [Originally published in the Upstream blog in January/2024]

Preprints in debate… six years later

Does Artificial Intelligence have hallucinations?

How to reformulate scholarly publishing to face the peer review crisis

Can AI do reliable review scientific articles?

The scientific community is publishing (much) more and that’s a problem

Brazil