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Este curso desvenda as raízes das desigualdades sociais e econômicas, focando na questão da “meritocracia hereditária” e nos mecanismos que permitem a reprodução de vantagens entre gerações. Através de uma abordagem teórica e prática, os participantes serão guiados por uma análise aprofundada de como o capital social, cultural e econômico é transferido, cristalizando barreiras e limitando oportunidades. O curso questiona o ideal de meritocracia em contextos de desigualdade e provoca reflexões sobre políticas capazes de promover maior mobilidade social e justiça.

The French Constitution of 1791 has a major legacy that overturned many centuries of historical tradition but remains little known outside of France. Its powerful impact served as the inspiration for the wave of constitution-making that engulfed Europe during the nineteenth century and expanded...

The powerful story of a falsely imprisoned man and a sweeping indictment of a city and the criminal justice system by a Pulitzer–prize winning journalist. When the bodies of two Black men were found sitting with a crackpipe in a parked car in a rundown section of town in 1994, it seemed just...

Os quilombos são muito mais do que histórias de resistência do passado; eles são a alma viva de uma luta por justiça que atravessa séculos e reverbera nos dias de hoje. Atualmente, segundo o Censo do IBGE de 2022, o Brasil abriga cerca de 7.666 comunidades quilombolas – e, com elas, um movimento que sustenta séculos de luta. Quilombolas estão na linha de frente em pautas essenciais como as mudanças climáticas, a educação e a justiça social, transformando diálogos sobre igualdade e antirracismo no país e no cenário internacional.

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity.

The behind-the-scenes look at the biggest—and perhaps the strangest—case in US history: the prosecution of the five detainees accused of planning 9/11.

Stan Moody's meticulous examination of the Brandon Drewry case serves as a stark reminder of the disparities in our criminal justice system. Through Drewry's story, Moody unveils the systemic failures that lead to unjust convictions and disproportionately harsh sentences. Joshua D'Alessio, MHA LADC CCS, Executive Director, Health Equity Alliance A poignant, in-depth study of an individual's struggle for justice. Should be required reading for judges, attorneys, and students of the law.

What do you do when divine law and the justice demanded by your conscience clash? Muslims have wrestled with this problem since the earliest caliphates. The mazalim courts, dating back to the eighth century, were the answer: courts where any subject could appeal directly to an Islamic ruler...

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble. Alfred L. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded.

Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar without going to college and after completing only one year of law school. Jackson became, in rapid succession, United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, where he successfully defended New Deal programs before the Supreme Court. 

Un libro narrado como crónica periodística sobre historias donde el Derecho tuvo que reinventarse para poner llevar a cabo juicios. Son 7 casos judiciales que marcaron la historia. En una vieja prisión de Berlín occidental, con aspecto de fortaleza medieval, muere el último prisionero...

Un libro narrado como crónica periodística sobre historias donde el Derecho tuvo que reinventarse para poner llevar a cabo juicios. Son 7 casos judiciales que marcaron la historia. En el corazón de Belgrado, un hombre que parecía un simple terapeuta alternativo y gurú de la salud escondía...

Un libro narrado como crónica periodística sobre historias donde el Derecho tuvo que reinventarse para poner llevar a cabo juicios. Son 7 casos judiciales que marcaron la historia. Durante décadas, víctimas de desapariciones, torturas y dictaduras han enfrentado un sistema judicial nacional...

Un libro narrado como crónica periodística sobre historias donde el Derecho tuvo que reinventarse para poner llevar a cabo juicios. Son 7 casos judiciales que marcaron la historia. En un mundo que apenas comenzaba a reconstruirse de las ruinas morales y materiales dejadas por el nazismo...

“Janina Edwards narrates in a compelling tone, a vivid style, and a clear sense of the importance of this action.”—AudioFile The epic story of Detroit's struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs—and the defeat of desegregation in the North. In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a...

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early anti-drug laws in the United States arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how United States drug laws were driven by a deep-seated cultural taboo against euphoria and a preoccupation with white moral integrity.

In this insider's look at one of the 20th century's most infamous trials, ex-juror Tracy Kennedy discloses what life was like for himself and his wife in the days leading up to the O.J. Simpson trial, and how it subsequently differed so much from their expectations. Kennedy reveals what happened during the trial and sequestration, a sequestration that turned the lives of a normal, married couple into an emotional hell.

This book is the definitive work showing the central place of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles in the American story. From the founding to the present, rifles and other firearms have played a pivotal role in American history. The story of America’s rifle is largely the story of American history.

An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions—and the next looming case In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting...

In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States and beyond. The case also brought about far-reaching societal changes, reinforcing tribal sovereignty and remedying decades of injustice. Eminent legal historian and tribal advocate Charles Wilkinson tells the story of the Boldt Decision against the backdrop of salmon's central place in the cultures and economies of the Pacific Northwest.