Rethinking action and jurisdiction in brazilian civil procedure.
Right of action; Jurisdiction; Rethink; Procedure; Judiciary; Arbitration.
This thesis reflects on right of action and jurisdiction in Brazilian law. Based on the findings of various theoretical and practical problems related to the current definitions of these two concepts, this thesis suggests overcoming the former and re-signifying the latter, in order to establish a new way of understanding access to the judiciary and arbitration in Brazil. The research conducted posits the idea that the notion of right of action, as a synonym for guaranteeing the possibility of access to the Judiciary and arbitration, is dispensable and not recommended. Likewise, this study indicates that the notion of jurisdiction should be reconfigured, to be understood as a legal norm, responsible for the entire jurisdictional phenomenon, which also involves the set of legal positions that guarantee access to the Judiciary and arbitration. This new way of defining the concept of jurisdiction is more coherent and does not suffer from the same defects as the definitions that currently exist