Human Rights in discussion: the extension course’s “Democracy, Citizenship and Access to Justice in Brazil” experience

Abstract

The present text has the objective to show the experience of the short course “Democracy, Citizenship
and Access to Justice in Brazil”, which occurred in June 2006 in the Fluminense Federal University’s Law
School and was born from the Juridical Sociology’s and General Theory of the Process’ assistance project.
This course was taught by the assistants of each subject and coordinated by the teachers. It received the
institutional support from the Law School (administrative endorsement) and from the Academic Center
Evaristo da Veiga (students endorsement). In the end, there was an evaluation of the course through a
questionnaire, which indicated that the course had received a great concern and consists as a new jointaction
strategy between extension and assistance.