PARTNERS
JLC RECOMMENDS
CALL FOR PAPERS
11th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
"Intercultural Awareness in Legal Language"
Conference Venue: Public Law Department − School of Law of Fluminense Federal University − UFF (Niterói/Rio de Janeiro − Brazil)
Dates: 11-13 November 2011
Hosted by Evandro Carvalho (Brazil) [more]
THE JOURNAL
The Journal of Legal Cultures is the first Brazilian journal to address law under the perspective of openness to cultural diversity. Such approach to law thinking makes us understand that our way of thinking our rights is deeply connected to our way of understanding the world, which leads us to different ways of thinking the "juridical" in different societies.
Three reflection axes inspire the content of this journal: compared law, multiculturalism and juridical pluralism. Together, these three axes invite us to reexamine the relations that our societies have with law. This time, however, such relations will no longer be treated in terms of demarcation lines or formal juridical systems. Instead, they will be treated as a dimension of life itself, as part of the global dynamics and incorporated in the socio-cultural totality, from which law can be thought.
The Journal of Legal Cultures inaugurates a new space for interaction among different views regarding this social phenomenon called "law". For that, we invite not only jurists, but also anthropologists, philosophers, political scientists, internationalists, sociologists, and the like to join us in the development of this debate and to be part of this journal. As for the readers, we challenge them to venture into this "deconstruction" of any unitary and centralized thought, without which it will be particularly difficult to have a new look about the world, our societies and ourselves.
