Abstract

LEWANDOWSKI, Andressa. Between politics and technique: legal practice in the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court. Etnográfica [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.2, pp.299-322. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.6706.

The purpose of this article is to examine the decisions and relations in the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court utilizing the local concepts of technique, law and politics. More than analyzing the decisions of the Supreme Court taking as a starting point the possibility of interference of political interests external to law, the goal of this article is to reflect on the ways that politics are made in the realm of law on the basis of a concept of legal practice seized in the composition of the court, the management of processes and the relationships between ministers and their offices. In this sense, decisions, relationships and processes are taken as objects that modulate the direction of truth and establish the possibilities of transformation.

Keywords : anthropology of law; politics; practice; bureaucracy; Supreme Court.

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