Assessoria jurídica popular e prática profissional: um estudo sobre o escritório Frei Tito de Alencar (EFTA)

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the praxis in Popular Legal Advice (Assessoria Jurídica Popular, AJP) carried out by Frei Tito de Alencar Human Rights Office (Escritório de Direitos Humanos Frei Tito de Alencar, EFTA) in Fortaleza. The relationship between popular legal advisers and social movements was born from a common historical line. Both meet each other in the bosom of the rights enclosure process that marked Brazil‟s dictatorial period. From then on, the solidarity tie between these subjects has become only stronger. The EFTA, throughout its fourteen years of history, has been supporting several revindications from social movements, communities, nongovernmental organizations (NGO‟s) and political parties, through law transcendent acting, wrapping its professional practice in political militancy. The theory lines from Critical Theory of Law give epistemological legitimacy to this alternative praxis, defying the idealist and positivistic conception of the science of law. It was chosen the field research, through carrying on observations and interviews, in order to achieve the desired approximation between theory and empirical approach.