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Refoundation of the Legal Journal Voluntas: Society, Law & State

Refoundation of the Legal Journal Voluntas: Society, Law & State

The new Revista Jurídica Voluntas: Sociedade, Direito & Estado recovers its historicity in order to maintain its originality, oriented towards the uncompromising defense of Human Rights, Democracy and Fundamental Rights. The name Voluntas comes from a suggestion by Prof. Levy Silva Alt and, for this very reason, it is necessary to recover the meaning of Voluntas as sown by the creator.

From Latin, the term voluntas was commonly translated as will, want, desire, inclination. The magazine was born from this desire to provide quality education in the interior of Mato Grosso, offering a space for publishing the studies developed in the late nineties. Inclined towards a critical reflection of Law without, however, forgetting the dogmatic-technical understanding that the legal professions use so much, expanding the democratization of Justice, which so much “depends on permanent updating and academic specialization of Law professionals. The struggle for quality of life depends on an epistemological position of legal operators in the face of historical oppression and environmental depredation” (ALT, 2001, p. 2)

 Voluntas' desire, from the beginning, was to study “eco-legal solutions to socio-environmental problems, implying a new ethics that understands above all that the human being is not the center of the universe, thus rejecting any type of bourgeois ethics and anthropocentric sense, for the realization of a professional legal praxis of struggle in defense of collective interests and nature”. (ALT, 2001, p. 2)

For more than two decades, Voluntas' commitment has been associated with the radical defense of Nature and the construction of a new epistemology whose centrality resides in interpreting the world from the profound respect for the life of all beings. Voluntas was made as a desire to transform legal abstractions, making research permanently uneasy in the face of the consecration and stability of exclusionary dogmas of the majority of the country's population.

The magazine offers a space for publishing scientific production that seeks to contribute to research in the following editorial lines: Fundamental Rights, Socio-environmental Law, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities Law, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Legal Anthropology, Legal Sociology, Political Science, Theory of Law, Philosophy of Law, Democracy and Law.

It will run every six months, with continuous flow, and may organize specific dossiers in order to present research results on a specific topic. The evaluation of the articles, forwarded by the interested community, will be carried out by the Scientific Committee, as well as by registered ad hoc Reviewers.

Inserted in the Mato Grosso pantanal portal, the Law course does not neglect its vocation in relation to socio-environmental studies, the native peoples living in the region, collective social relations and their local and regional transformations, that is, the development of a process of teaching, research and critical extension, but also oriented towards a legal dogmatic that tries to reflect eco-social problems, notably due to climate change, demanding thinking in the collectivity, contributing to a reflection of the subject distanced from individualist selfishness, to a position emancipatory before life itself and the social environment, in an ecosophic dimension. The composition of the Board and Editorial Committee demonstrates this vocation of Voluntas in directing its efforts to concentrate publications of articles that represent this editorial line.