How Courts Must Act To Provide Democratic Access To Justice On Civil Disputes? The Experience Of Brazilian Federal Court In Slams Of Rio De Janeiro

The aim of this communication is to discuss how could  brazilian federal court act in marginal urban communities with peacekeeping police forces units (UPPs) to promote democratic access to justice in civil disputes. A federal court in Brazil has the competence to judge the conflicts involving the Brazilian federal state, as well as their federal organs, as the mail office, the social security institute, federal banks, the national regulatory agencies and others. The field of research is the implementation of programs and projects of the federal justice in underserved communities, implemented by the federal court of Rio de Janeiro. These programs began in 2010 and last until 2013. The implementation of such policies was extremely heterogeneous and plural. Initiative began with a realization of hearings, production of expert evidence and offering agreements by the social security institute approved at the same time by the Federal Judges (judgment), and then became itinerant events to provide legal advice and assistance, and legal education for citizenship, without rendering jurisdiction in strict sense. Presented through the analysis of Boaventura de Sousa Santos on the relationship between law and community and the tension between regulation and emancipation, I report the experience in Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro. I conclude that pedagogical access to justice, wich means, legal education for citizenship can offer a third way to rethink the relation between courts and communities for dispute resolution in civil conflicts.