O Habitus Jurídico em contextos de escritórios de prática jurídica dos Cursos de Direito: entre regulação e emancipação

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the possibilities and limits of the Juridical Practice Offices (JPO's) of the law school so that they constitute and dynamize themselves as producers and facilitators of emancipatory access to justice. The objective is to analyze the practices produced and adopted in such contexts and unveil whether they represent the reproduction of a habitus or a rupture in the structure of the juridical field. A few base elements have been regarded in order to determine the research object: access to justice, as a social right, is considered from a broader perspective then the access to the judiciary power and, mainly, access to law itself as well as to juridical assistance capable of protecting people´s interests effectively; JPO´s are understood as complex environments where distinct demands and interests flow into; juridical teaching is apprehended as a replicator of the practices and dynamics adopted in the juridical field. The importance of research resides in the fact that vice, difficulty setbacks, characteristics of the juridical field, which involve JOP´s, expecting these to make access to justice possible from an emancipatory perspective are capable of conceiled action, remain naturalized and risk to become immutable. The work is composed of theoretical analysis and qualitative research carried out in two JPO´s existing in juridical education context in the city of Pelotas: one is a public institution, the other is a private one. In order to make the interviews, the following subjects were selected: trainee students, professors who worked as advisor at the JPO´s, as well as members of the community who were currently using the service provided. The research revealed that, although a few students are capable of keeping their distance from the regulatory structure of the juridical field by implementing emancipatory practices engaged in the struggle for the effective accomplishment of users' intentions, the related issues and dynamics adopted in most of the study contexts are ruled by the replication of the juridical habitus and, therefore by supporting the interests of the agents involved in providing the juridical assistance services, not the interests of justice itself, which conflicts with the cravings and expectations of users