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New proposals to reform the law on Italian citizenship: the initiative of the Democratic Party (DP))
“Nuove proposte di riforma della Legge sulla Cittadinanza Italiana: L’iniziativa del Partito Democratico (PD)”
August 12, 2021 at 11:00 AM (Brasilia time)
Lecturer:
- FABIO PORTA, PD Member of the Italian Parliament (2008-2018)
Moderator:
- Prof. Arno Dal Ri Jr., Federal University of Santa Catarina
Debaters:
- Desidério Peron, Journalist and Editor of “Insieme” Magazine
- Daniel Taddone, Sociologist
- Andrey Taffner Fraga,
- Master’s degree in Law at UFSC, Vice-President of Circolo Trentino de Rio dos Cedros
- Alessandra Carioni, Italian Language Teacher, Vice-President of the Italian-Brazilian Circle of Santa Catarina
Organization:
- Ius Gentium – International Law Research Group – UFSC/CNPq
- Ius Commune – Research Group on The History of Legal Culture – UFSC/CNPq
Co-organization:
- Magazine “Insieme”
Registrations in this link.
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Final Result: Scientific Initiation in The History of Law 2021/2022 – Prof. Diego Nunes
Access the link: resultado_pibic_diego_nunes_2021_assinado
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Scientific Initiation in The History of Law – Prof. Diego Nunes – 2021/2022
PROFESSOR DIEGO NUNES, in the use of his duties, as provided in item 3.6.5 of Annex III of NORMATIVE RESOLUTION No. 17/CNPq, OF JULY 6, 2006, in Article 17 of NORMATIVE RESOLUTION No. 39/CUn, MAY 20, 2014 and in item 6.2.1 of Propesq Notice No. 01/2021 makes public the opening of registrations and establishes the rules for conducting a selection process aimed at classifying students who will develop scientific initiation activities in the period between September 2020 and August 2021, with 1 vacancy for scientific initiation scholarship approved preliminary by Propesq and 1 vacancy for voluntary scientific initiation, destined to wide competition.
Access the Notice
Inscriptions: https://forms.gle/AEQsaUr1GymAK3Th8
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Fascisms in Europe and Brazil
We invite everyone to register and honor the lecture “Fascisms in Europe and Brazil”, which will be given by Professor Federico Losurdo of the Università degli studi di Urbino.
The activity is a joint effort of the research groups Ius Commune and Ius Gentium, the UFSC, the Center for the Studies of Historical and Geographical Materialism – Nino Gramsci and the Università degli studi di Urbino.
Registration can be made through the link bit.ly/3zILzGH.
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The Napoleonic Code and the Legal Culture of Roman-Germanic Tradition
On 17/06, at 11am, The Ius Commune – Interdisciplinary Group on The History of Legal Culture UFSC/CNPq in partnership with other research groups in the history of legal culture, organizes a debate with Prof. Paolo Cappellini of the University of Florence (Italy), a conversation on the codification of law in the bicentenary of napoleon’s death, who carried out such legislative policy in France and the occupied territories. The broadcast will be live on our YouTube channel.
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AvdotiaIusCommuneUFSC
Partner Groups:
- Studium Iuris – Grupo de Pesquisa em História da Cultura Jurídica (UFMG);
- Iura Populorum – Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em História da Cultura Jurídica (UniFAP);
- Percursos, Narrativas e Fragmentos – Grupo de Pesquisa em História Constitucional Brasileira (UnB);
- CERCO – Controle estatal, racismo e colonialidade (UFRJ);
- Direito, Democracia e Participação Cidadã (Unochapecó);
- Ius Gentium – Grupo de Pesquisa em Direito Internacional (UFSC);
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Book Launch: Economics and Politics vs. Freedom: questions of law on the Atlantic slave trade in the 19th century
On 13/05, at 11:00 a.m., we will meet several research groups to discuss the recent book of the dear friend and fellow law history professor at the University of Milan (Statale) on the Atlantic trafficking of Africans to be enslaved in the Americas. The research was used by multiple sources that take into account both the legal dimension and that of legal thought and judicial and diplomatic praxis.
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Book: Studies in the History of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

It is with joy to present the book Studies in history of criminal law and criminal justice, organized by Professor Diego Nunes from the collective effort led by Ius Commune – Research Group on The History of Legal Culture – UFSC/CNPq and with the help of Studium iuris – Research Group on The History of Legal Culture – UFMG/CNPq, as well as historians of brazilian and European law. This book aims to contribute to the affirmation of the field of the history of law in Brazil, and the history of criminal law and criminal justice in particular.
The work takes care of a temporal arc with approximately two centuries, encompassing the foundation of legal modernity at the end of the eighteenth century, and nineteenth century and some modern declinations throughout the twentieth century.
Click here to access the full book!
Contents
Presentation
Technical Note
Contents
Part I
History of Criminal Law and European Criminal Justice
- Chapter 1 | Judicial sources and legal sources: reflections on the current stage of studies on the history of crime and criminal justice – Mario Sbriccoli
- Chapter 2 | The legislator’s response: reforms and restorations in criminal justice after Beccaria – Ettore Dezza
- Chapter 3 | Cain’s mark: the search for the “delinquent man” between medicine and law – Paolo Marchetti
- Chapter 4 | The role of the “personality of the State” in the criminal elaboration of Italian fascism: laesa maiestas and technicality-legal in the Rocco Code (1930) – Arno Dal Ri JR., Kristal Moreira Gouveia
- Chapter 5 | Extraction in fascist Italy (1922-1943) and in Brazil by Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945): between the rise of the “criminal law of fascism” and the survival of the liberal tradition of criminal law – Diego Nunes
Part II
History of Criminal Law and Luso-Brazilian Criminal Justice
- Chapter 6 | “Without perfect and legal proof no one should be punished”: the regime of evidence in the project of Criminal Code of Mello Freire – Marina Tanabe do Livramento, Murilo Aparecido Carvalho de Robbio
- Chapter 7 | Reminiscences of death as a penalty in the portuguese criminal codification process: from the Philippine Ordinances to the Penal Code of 1886 – Giácomo Tenorio Farias
- Chapter 8 | The last hanged in the province of Rio de Janeiro (1869): notes to the “biography of Ramon Nietto by a fellow inmate” – Joao Luiz Ribeiro
- Chapter 9 | Absence of criminalization of women who abort in the Criminal Code of 1830: the protection of private spheres of punishment before the slave regime – Barbara Madruga da Cunha, Mario Davi Barbosa
- Chapter 10 | From apothecaries to traffickers: the mistaken belief in terminological and dogmatic identity as a character of continuity in brazilian criminal drug policy between the Criminal Code of 1890 and the special criminal laws of the 1910s and 1920s – Ricardo Ávila Abraham, Carlos César Rodrigues
- Chapter 11 | The legal culture of criminalization of Afro-Brazilian religions: the experience of São Pedro do Uberabinha (Minas Gerais) – Vanilda Honória dos Santos, Biatriz Bittencourt de Assis
- Chapter 12 | Reflections on the Positive School: the reinterpretation of its institutes in the Brazilian Penal Code of 1940 – Julia Farah Scholz
- Chapter 13 | The crime of abortion in the Penal Code of 1940 and its “substitute” of 1969: a feminist analysis of discourses for its maintenance – Barbara Klopass Locks by Godoi, Tayná Ferreira
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History of Women in Legal Culture

The study group of Ius Commune takes place every semester in order to foster and deepen the knowledge of students and researchers about the History of Law, through the study and discussion on legal phenomena in history, enabling an introduction to the debate on the themes Of Law, State and Modernity.
This semester will have as its theme the History of Women in Legal Culture. The objective is to discuss the main claims and forms of female resistance in Brazil during the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on women’s actions in the struggle for rights.
The meetings will take place on Tuesdays, 16:30, from March 2, and will follow the axes:
▶️ March 02: Introductory meeting
▶️ March 09: Right to education
▶️ March 16: Struggles for freedom
▶️ March 23: Labor rights
▶️ March 30: Legal careers
▶️ April 6: Right to vote
▶️ April 13: Combating violence
▶️ April 20: Sexual freedom
▶️ April 27: Reproductive rightsParticipation in the group has a 40-hour extension certification for those who have a minimum attendance of 75% of the meetings. Registration is open on the portal “UFSC Registrations”: http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/mulheres-na-cultura-juridica.
Everyone will be very welcome, whether internal members or external to the UFSC community!
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Final Result – Ius Commune Emergency Scholarship
The result of the selection process is HERE.
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Women victims and offenders in the early days of Modern Criminal Law

The Ius Commune – UFSC/CNPq (Group of Studies and Research in the History of Legal Culture), together with studium Iuris – UFMG (Research Group on The History of Legal Culture) will hold a webconference, on December 15, 2020 – 19:00 with the theme Women Victims and Offenders in the Beginnings of Modern Criminal Law with Professor Ana Lúcia Sabadell (UFRJ) as a lecturer.
▶️ Lecturer: Prof. Ana Lúcia Sabadell (UFRJ)
▶️ Moderator: Prof. Arno Dal Ri Júnior (UFSC)
▶️Debaters: Diego Nunes (UFSC), Luana Renostro Heinen (UFSC), Marilía de Nardin Budó (UFSC) and Ricardo Sontag (UFMG).
▶️ Will be issued by UFSC a certificate of 2 hours / class for those who attend;
▶️ Subscription must be made on the link http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/mulheres-delinquentes-nos-primordios-do until 15/12 (Tuesday).
We’re waiting for you all!






