Source reader on legal unity and pluralism and article on Brazilian juvenile law published
Source reader on legal unity and pluralism and article on Brazilian juvenile law published
Two new volumes have been published in the open access series of EViR Working Papers. Working Paper No. 14 is the first edition of the Münster Source Reader on Legal Unity and Pluralism. The Source Reader, which will be successively expanded, collects and discusses visual and textual materials in order to promote an interdisciplinary understanding of legal phenomena. This first edition includes contributions by Jakub Urbanik, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Armando Guevara Gil and João Figueiredo. They deal with source genres as diverse as ancient Roman petitions, early modern police ordinances and reports from colonial Africa.
In EViR Working Paper No. 16, Alexander de Castro analyses Brazilian juvenile law in the 20th century. After a 1927 law for minors that was characterised by scientism and eugenics and was intended to keep the urban masses under control, FUNABEM was founded under the 1964 regime to deal with the ‘minors problem’. This led to a revision of the Juvenile Code and eventually to a new code in 1979. It created the legal framework that separated disadvantaged minors from better-off children and exposed the former to systematic abuse.
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The EViR Working Papers are a digital and printed series to publish current research reports, conference papers and joint working papers. It is interdisciplinary and intertemporal in nature and offers a good insight into the diverse research topics of the Kolleg. As an open access publication, it can be accessed via the University’s publication server miami as well as via the website of the Kolleg.
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