" Administrative Law, State Intervention and Technique: a Legal Biography of Hely Lopes Meirelles (1917-1990)".
Administrative Law; State Intervention; Technique; Hely Lopes Meirelles; Police Power;
The research analyzes the textual production and the professional career of Hely Lopes Meirelles through historiographical lenses, especially that from intellectual history. The sources explored were: Meirelles’ legal production (manuals, books, articles, opinions etc.) and that of his contemporaries and references, as well as newspapers, biographies and interviews. The chosen delimitation and guideline are the uses, by the author, of the language of administrative law to deal with the problem of state intervention, in which the concept of “technique” had a central role.