IDS attends Amigos Direito UERJ event

IDS attends Amigos Direito UERJ event

The Amigos Direito UERJ charity dinner took place on November 27th. The academic coordinator of the Dannemann Siemsen Institute, Patricia Porto, attended the event, representing the institute.

The Amigos Direito UERJ group is the endowment fund of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) law faculty, which was created with the aim of financing actions for the benefit of the law faculty and its students. The purpose of the event was to raise funds to continue the ongoing actions sponsored by the fund, as well as to finance new projects, such as improving and modernizing the law school’s facilities and financing a free legal English course for the university’s students.

The dinner was preceded by a lecture by Suprema Court Justice Luiz Fux, one of the founders of the group, who spoke about the economic analysis of procedural law. In his speech, the Justice explained that the theoretical basis of the economic analysis of law was born at Harvard University but is already a widely disseminated and adopted subject in the legal world, as it analyzes the legal system from the perspective of its efficiency. The economic analysis of procedural law discusses, for example, the cost/benefit of filing a lawsuit or accepting a settlement proposal. Fux pondered that various provisions, principles and mechanisms adopted by the current Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure were created based on the economic analysis of law, such as: the simplification of the judicial process (with the limitation of appeals); alternative means of judicial resolution; the privilege of an integral, stable and coherent jurisprudence (instituting the mechanism of the incident of resolution of repetitive demands), among others.

Several professors, former professors, students, and alumni of UERJ’s law faculty attended the event, now in its second edition. The aim of Amigos Direito UERJ is to make these and other actions a regular occurrence, to publicize the initiative and to encourage the community of UERJ members to join the cause.

Link to the Friends of UERJ Law website: https://www.amigosdireitouerj.com.br/

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