Over the years, Terra de Direitos’ practices in popular legal assistance, developed in tandem with social movements and in collective network articulation, have highlighted the necessity of a critical perspective on the law and the justice system. This critical analysis of the law prevents Terra de Direitos’ popular legal assistance from being absorbed into the ostensibly pure institutional framework of the formal legal system, and it also avoids leading to a utopian reflection that hinders critical action.

Instead, it represents a critical perception of the law with a strategic intent of action. It is known that the law should articulate the principles of a “legitimate social organization of freedom” (SOUSA JR, 2004) and should be conceived from the needs and perspectives of workers, peasants, indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and traditional communities, thereby vehemently challenging the legal ideology that the State imposes as Law (PRESSBURGER, 1987-1988).

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