Name: Ana Gabriela Camatta Zanotelli
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 13/03/2018
Advisor:

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Cristiana Losekann Advisor *

Examining board:

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Cristiana Losekann Advisor *
Frederico Normanha Ribeiro de Almeida External Examiner *
Igor Suzano Machado Internal Examiner *

Summary: The present study aims to analyze and characterize the public interest lawyering, in view of the
growing use of the judicial arena by social movements in the context of political struggles.
Through a case study, the Coletivo de Assessoria Jurídica Popular Margarida Alves (a collective
of lawyers that offer judicial work for marginalized groups), located in the city of Belo
Horizonte, we seek to understand how this activity is internally organized and projected in a
confrontation scenario. Via the contentious politics theory and the legal mobilization theory,
we analyze the collective of lawyers from its repertoire of action, constituted by plural
performances, both political and juridical. It consists on a qualitative research that seeks to
understand how the collective constitutesitself as an actor in a context of confrontation, through
personal and collective perceptions of lawyers about the law and the justice system and the
relationships they establish with other actors, both allies and opponents. In view of the
specificities of the public interest lawyering, characterized by the valorization of affectivity,
horizontality and solidarity in the relation to those assisted, there is a process of displacement
between the institutional and non-institutional levels. Their practices combine characteristics of
both Latin American public interest lawyering, focused on a subversive, critical and
transformative use of the law in the quest for social emancipation, as well as of the pragmatic
and strategic North American cause lawyering, which uses available legal instruments in
judicial confrontations for rights.

Keywords: Cause Lawyering. Legal Mobilization. Social Movements. Contentious Politics.

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