Banca de DEFESA: BRUNO ARTHUR HOCHHEIM

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STUDENT : BRUNO ARTHUR HOCHHEIM
DATE: 27/04/2023
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: SALA DE VIDEOCONFERÊNCIA - FACULDADE DE DIREITO - UnB
TITLE:

"Democracy and State Intervention: Victor Nunes Leal and his time".

KEY WORDS:

Victor Nunes Leal; Democracy; State Intervention; Federalism

PAGES: 330
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

The aim of this research is to study how Victor Nunes Leal approached democracy and state intervention in his works, both his academic works and during his appointments in the civil service in the JK Presidency. The research is justified due to the relevance of Leal to national history and due to the central role the themes played in his works. This thesis will analyze the life of the author until the moment he took office in the Brazilian Supreme Court in 1960. The aim is to create a contextualized study of Victor Nunes, approaching his works considering his personal story, his networks and the context of quick transformations happening in Brazil, with focus in the continuities and ruptures in his thought. The used methodology is the historiographic research, with prominence to the critical analysis of primary sources like academic works, legislation and newspapers. The thesis concludes that his legal works were influenced by his historiographic and political theory studies, in a way that he sought to make the law of his time compatible with the new needs of the era of state intervention. The legal historian thus reframed concepts like separation of powers, delegated legislation and federalism in order to enable the democratization of the society through the enhancement of quality of life of the population caused by state action. It is also concluded that, notwithstanding his well-know defense of local government, Victor Nunes had an instrumental conception of municipalism, seeing it as a way to reach the goals of democratization and enhancement of the quality of life of population, qualifying the citizen to take part in the great national decisions in the federal sphere. The sources show that Victor Nunes was a markedly democratic and legalistic author, fact that highlighted him in his period. Finally, there were not so many ruptures in the author’s ideas, but certain indefinitions in points of contact between themes that were dear to him but sometimes difficult to reconcile, like judicial review of state intervention and nationally planned state intervention that had to grapple with the autonomy of the municipalities. These indefinitions tell us less about the author than about the dilemmas and challenges of his times.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1534172 - AIRTON LISLE CERQUEIRA LEITE SEELAENDER
Interno - 321346 - MENELICK DE CARVALHO NETTO
Externo à Instituição - DANIEL LENA MARCHIORI NETO - UFPel
Externo à Instituição - GILBERTO BERCOVICI - USP
Externo à Instituição - JOAO PAULO BACHUR - IDP