UNIARA

The CPG-PMPD/Uniara (Postgraduate Council of the Professional Master`s Program in Law and Conflict Management of the University of Araraquara) is a deliberative body responsible for supervising all activities of the Program, and also for exercising the following duties:

• Preparing and proposing changes to these Internal Regulations, forwarding them to the Office of the Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies at Uniara for consideration;
• Preparing and publishing the academic calendar of the program, publishing the enrollment calendar and other activities every six months;
• Setting the number of vacancies for admission of candidates annually, in accordance with the Selection Notice established by the CPG-PMPD/Uniara;
• Distributing and publishing the Internal Regulations among the Students and Faculty;
• Defining and implementing the procedures for selecting candidates;
• Appointing the members of the candidate selection committees;
• Defining the offer of courses every six months;
• Establish the deadline and rules for taking the Qualification Exam and the Foreign Language Proficiency Exam;
• Establish specific rules regarding attendance at program activities;
• Decide on the appointment of advisors, co-advisors and examining boards, as well as any replacements thereof;
• Decide on the accreditation and de-accreditation of Program faculty members, in accordance with criteria and procedures approved by the Committee itself and other competent collegiate bodies;
• Determine the number and distribution of course hours for the disciplines, as well as other requirements to be met in order to obtain the Master`s degree in Law and Conflict Management;
• Forward the documentation for granting the Master`s degree for approval by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Graduate Studies;
• Periodically evaluate the Professional Master`s Degree in Law and Conflict Management;
• Send, annually, to the Office of the Vice-President of Graduate Studies, the list of regular students of the Program;
• Prepare and send to the Office of the Vice-President of Graduate Studies the specific rules and the curricular structure of the Courses;
• Evaluate and define possible partnerships that meet the interests of the Program;
• Perform other activities assigned by the institutional rules and by the pertinent higher boards;
• Promote the didactic and organizational supervision of the Graduate Program under its jurisdiction, exercising the resulting attributions;
• Detail, within the scope of the Graduate Program, pertinent policies on core activities, human, physical and financial resources formulated by the higher councils of the University and by the Office of the Vice-President of Graduate Studies;
• Prepare or modify the Internal Regulations of the Coordination of the Graduate Program, which will include the composition of the CPG itself, submitting it for approval by the Office of the Vice-President of Graduate Studies;
• Deliberate on omitted cases, within the scope of its competence.

• Professor Dr. Carla Abrantkoski Rister
• Professor Dr. Edmundo Alves de Oliveira
• Professor Dr. Jamile Gonçalves Calissi
• Professor Dr. Ricardo Augusto Bonotto Barboza
• Student representative: Lazaro Antonio Mazaro Junior

The Graduate Program in Law and Conflict Management offers the following Research Lines:

Researchers in this Program linked to this Research Line aim to study problems of legal practice involving the judiciary. In addition to identifying solutions and providing support for the disciplines, the research, whether qualitative or quantitative, involves the structure, organization, functioning, procedures, and other instruments and mechanisms used in the Brazilian judiciary in the process of managing and resolving conflicts, aiming for greater procedural efficiency, broader access, and enhanced social peace.

More specifically, research in this line includes:

• Innovative policies for conflict resolution to be adopted by the judiciary, established by the National Justice Council;
• Public policies aimed at ensuring access to justice and their articulation in defense of fundamental rights;
• The incorporation of new digital technologies as instruments for improving the process of adjudication and sentencing of conflicts by the judiciary;
• The institute of sustainability and its impacts on judicial decisions;
• The use of consensual methods, such as preliminary conflict resolution processes, in the context of heterocompositive processes, as means of achieving greater speed and social peace within the judiciary.

Researchers in this Program linked to this Research Line aim to study problems of legal practice involving alternative methods that lead to the consensual resolution of conflicts. Similarly to Line 1, the research in this Line 2, whether qualitative or quantitative, seeks to identify solutions and provide support for the disciplines, involving processes of dejudicialization for conflict resolution. To this end, it studies the use of alternative methods (such as Mediation, Conciliation, Negotiation, and Arbitration) for resolving conflicts in a manner that ensures greater, faster, and less expensive access to justice.

Research in Line 2 may involve in-depth studies of the instruments and techniques of alternative conflict resolution methods, but more specifically involves:

• Raising awareness and educating legal practitioners and society about consensual conflict resolution methods;
• The realization of solutions to problems involving the use of alternative conflict resolution methods, through specific artifacts such as guides, scripts, models, projects, drafts, procedures, etc.;
• Self-composition as a strategy for conflict resolution with greater pacifying power;
• The role of extrajudicial offices in resolving conflicts through administrative means;
• How community justice can contribute to managing conflict resolution in a way that guarantees broad access to justice for citizens.

In 2019, the University of Araraquara began its internationalization program. Its goal was to expand international partnerships, improve its research and intellectual production model, and enhance the institutional quality standard to place itself in the context of world-class universities.

As a long-term program, the University`s internationalization has adopted a prototyping strategy, in which the stricto sensu graduate programs take the lead in terms of contact, partnerships, and research content. To this end, it builds its competencies based on two stages. In the first stage, it seeks to determine its vocation-mission and installed basic competencies. Based on this knowledge, and supported by an internationalization policy, it selects international partnerships of interest and establishes a strategic internationalization plan. The second stage begins when its graduate programs reach level 5 and higher, in the CAPES classification. In this stage, supported by the strategic plan, the program should increase its international commitments and the sophistication of its research and intellectual production to reach the quality standard of world-class universities.

In the Professional Master`s Program in Law, Uniara maintains strong ties with Portugal, specifically with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The proximity to Portugal is linked to the similarity of the Brazilian and Portuguese legal systems (positive) and with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, due to the connections of professors in the area of Law, PhD scholarship holders at this university.

In addition to Portugal, Uniara maintains ties with universities in the United States, Spain, Italy, and Germany, which quickly become priority international partners, initially, for the launch of the Institutional Internationalization Program.

LPJUDI

LPJUDI is the Laboratory for Legal Research of the Professional Master`s Program in Law at Uniara. Established in 2019, it aims to provide research practice opportunities for students in the PMPD-GC, integrating undergraduate Law students and intensifying institutional Scientific Initiation activities. LPJUDI specifically supports Research Line 1 – Judiciary Power and Conflict Management.

LPJUDI comprises a group of researchers focused on applied research in conflict management and prevention within the judiciary. The group is multidisciplinary, involving faculty and students from the PMPD-GC, as well as professionals and partners from the local and regional community.

The Laboratory not only brings together interested parties and specialists in the field but also focuses on developing and proposing useful solutions for the judiciary that, through innovations, lead to greater procedural efficiency, reduced costs, and increased access to justice for citizens.

LEGALLAB

LEGALLAB is the laboratory of models and artifacts that materialize proposed solutions for resolving issues through dejudicialization. LEGALLAB encompasses the research group involved with procedural problems of dejudicialization and conflict resolution through consensual alternative means (mediation, conciliation, negotiation). To this end, LEGALLAB provides space for the development of artifacts into products (models, manuals, guides, scripts, drafts, projects, etc.) and forwards them to the judiciary and established legislative authorities.

Thus, as an instrumental facilitator for legally constituted authorities, LEGALLAB serves as an important tool for integrating the University and PMPD-GC with the community at both local and national levels, including public agencies, extrajudicial offices, the National Justice Council (CNJ), and the Legislative Power. By mediating effective means of extrajudicial conflict resolution, LEGALLAB not only meaningfully integrates PMPD-GC researchers in their intellectual and practical production but also contributes significantly to the pacification of conflicts and the reduction of disputes in society.

LAW, INNOVATION, AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

This group aims to study innovation management from the perspective of conflicts, encompassing preventive measures and alternatives for dejudicialization in contractual and regulatory relationships, with an emphasis on labor issues, contract management, and intellectual protection.

Research topics include tax incentives aimed at public health, new management techniques in cooperatives, and startups in Law (Property Law, Copyrights, and Legal Techs). Expected outcomes include the creation of protocols, manuals, contracts/statutes, and guides aimed at preventing conflicts in various types of organizations. Additionally, it is expected to contribute to the development of public policies that encourage innovation in a sustainable and responsible manner, promoting societal well-being with a focus on Law and Conflict Management.

Uniara is celebrating partnerships with renowned national and international educational institutions. In Brazil, the highlight is the partnership with the Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC and the Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar. On the international level, we have a partnership with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal.