UFOP’s Law Graduate Program (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito - PPGD) was born from the undergraduate program growth, which has a notable educational context marked by the diversity studies, the development and inclusion processes of excluded individuals, and the discussion of democratic edification of new solution models to social and individual conflicts. Seeking the verticalization of a program that cements the three pillars of university’s knowledge, which are teaching, research, and extension, this program has as its highlights the extension projects “Law and Society” and “Human Rights” , as well as a number of research projects and research and extension groups fulfilled along the last two decades. Human Rights Education has been one of the central actions on the research and extension projects developed by the program.
The Law Masters Program dialogues with themes related to new subjects and new rights, in the current context of the modernity oriented to an excluding globalization and localism (Boaventura de Souza Santos) in its traditional matrix seeking from a new transdisciplinary epistemology, the review of concepts, theories, institutions and legal practices, based on critical and reflective theories of eurocentric legal thought.
The program's innovative potential highlights the use of research-action and the dialogue between courses as a way to link Law's theory and practice, seeking new processes, methods, or the revision of known means to ensure social justice.
The PPGD’s concentration area is New Rights, New Subjects, and its lines of research are: 1) Cultural Diversity, New Subjects, and New Legal Systems; and 2) New Rights, Development, and New Epistemologies.
