Acesso à justiça e ensino jurídico: a busca por um novo ethos ecojurídico

Abstract

Legal education in Brazil is marked by a long history of political control and imprisoning the improvement of the quality of education, in the face of the dominant market vision that prioritizes the reductionism of knowledge and the application of technicist methods, at the same time, in the face of the complexity of relationships and contemporary society, have demanded from legal professionals a dynamic of action not anticipated by academic training. In this sense, what is the profile of the legal professional expected from law schools in the country? Are law courses committed to the development of an ethical and responsible legal education, from an ecological point of view, of its students, in the construction of an eco-legal ethos? That is to say, precisely concerning the legal education of the UFPEL law course, do students feel prepared and professionally trained to perform the profession, in an ethical, humanized and ecological way, to enhance the effectiveness of access to justice? To raise this discussion, the present research starts from the 4th wave of renewal of access to justice, which considers professional ethics and legal education inseparable elements from the search for effective access to justice. In addition to the theoretical framework, the research intends to diagnose the profile of legal education at the Federal University of Pelotas/RS, considering its pedagogical project, the curricular matrix and the perspective of freshmen, graduating and law school graduate, through the application of questionnaires. In this sense, through the use of the hypothetical-deductive method and empirical research, with a descriptive contribution and analysis of data, in a qualitative approach, the research intends to present perspectives for the transformation of access to justice, from ethical legal teaching, humanized and ecological.