The 'Contemporary Challenges in International Legal Cooperation' Project

Abstract

The aim of the research project “Contemporary challenges in international legal cooperation” is to perfect the procedural and institutional guarantees necessary to provide effective transnational judicial assistance in civil and criminal matters. The comparative study focuses on the European model and international laws on international legal cooperation, without departing from the Inter-American and European human rights systems with respect to the right to effective judicial protection. In Brazilian law, despite the innovations provided by the recent Lei de Migração [Migration Act] and the 2015 Civil Procedure Code, certain legal theories insist on sacrificing the implementation of international cooperation. The project is rooted in research begun in 2006, in the Effectiveness of Jurisdiction Research Group of Fluminense Federal University (GPEJ-CNPq-UFF), in partnership with the University of Malaga and the Ibero-American Institute on Procedural Law, which gave rise to the Model Code of Interjurisdictional Cooperation for Ibero-America, various other publications and the creation of international procedural law programs on the undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral levels. The current initiative is part of the Graduate Law Program of the University of Estácio de Sá (PPGD-UNESA), with the support of the UFF Graduate Program in Administrative Justice and the Spanish institutions University of Málaga and the University CEU San Pablo of Madrid. Participants on the project team include Brazilian and foreign professors, doctoral and masters students, some of whom have years of experience in international judicial cooperation on the international Ibero-American and European scene, including 7 PPGD-UNESA team members.

Keywords: international judicial assistance, international criminal cooperation, recognition of foreign court decision