The Group

The IUS COMMUNE – UFSC/CNPq is the Interinstitutional Group of History of Legal Culture based at the Center for Legal Sciences (CCJ) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), under the coordination of Professor Arno Dal Ri Jr. and Professor Diego Nunes.

Linked to the Graduation Law Course and the Post-Graduation Program in Law (PPGD), both from UFSC, the group is formed by researchers and students from Brazilian and foreign universities, being the longest-running group of the Center for Legal Sciences, active since 2004.

“Allegoria ed effetti del Buono e Cattivo governo” or “Allegory and effects of Good and Bad Government” (1338), fresco of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348), at Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.

Starting Point:

The Ius Commune aims to problematize western legal experiences as historically localized cultural phenomena, while moving away from certain approaches that bring juridicities to a timeless dimension, as well as from those that reduce legal experiences to automatic reflections of social formations.

It is, therefore, to take legal experiences as phenomena with their own thickness, producing meanings and behaviors that are reflected in society.

To learn more, check out the interview of the Communication Agency (Agecom) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) to Professor Diego Nunes, coordinator of the Group, for the video series “Translating Science”. In each episode, scientists from UFSC present details of projects on studies of excellence that impact society and on the universe of research that takes place in the institution.