THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE TEACHING OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNDERGRADUATED PROGRAM IN LAW AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO

Abstract

This article reports the experience of creating the disciplines Law and Public Policy and Legal Assistance in Law and Public Policy in a law degree with a vocation for public law in general, and public policy in particular. The disciplines are examined in the context of the emphasis provided in the pedagogical project of the law course, which stablishes an area for Public Policy and Regulation Law.

Three aspects are problematized at the end: i) the function of the disciplines, if they reflect a corollary to training in public law disciplines or, rather, they signal the introduction to a field in their own; ii) the problems resulting from a scientific approach and the incorporation of values such as democracy and public interest; iii) the challenges posed by a legal clinic model that incorporates the objective of empowering excluded social groups.