EDITORIAL Luciano Pereira de Souza

Abstract

In 2016, the Law School at Universidade Santa Cecília celebrated its 20th anniversary, and at the time it was one of the few courses authorized by the MEC with a favorable opinion from the Brazilian Bar Association. It was also in 2016 that CAPES authorized the implementation of the Master's program in Health Law at Universidade Santa Cecília.

When designing the Law School at Casa Azul de Santos with its innovative Pedagogical Project, modern structure and highly qualified faculty, with extensive professional experience and high academic qualifications, the late Milton Teixeira and his family had in mind to provide the population of Baixada Santista and the surrounding region with an excellent course that lived up to the demands of the market and social expectations. And that is what happened: the Law School at Unisanta received the highest grade from the MEC in the last evaluation of the conditions of provision carried out in 2015, as a result of pedagogical improvements and institutional maturity.

Also in 2016, in an innovative and bold way, the Law School implemented the TCC modality in the form of an academic article, with the presentation of the results of the work through a panel at a scientific event, so that the intellectual production of students, under the guidance of professors, can be disseminated, instead of remaining obscure on the shelves of the Faculty library, as is usually the case with traditional course completion monographs.

Although all TCCs must be submitted to scientific journals for publication, it is known that only articles approved by the respective editorial committees will be published. Alongside articles by professors, students, former Unisanta students and collaborators from other institutions, the Unisanta Law and Social Sciences magazine presents the first course completion papers in the form of academic articles approved and selected for publication.

These are four articles representing the research and reflection efforts of undergraduate students, carried out under the guidance or co-authorship of the supervising professor. This is another equally innovative and bold aspect of the TCC in the form of an academic article: it allows for the construction of a productive partnership between the supervising professor and the student, since both become equally protagonists of the research, thus enabling more teaching production and better quality TCCs. Ita speratur! (We hope so).

Prof. Luciano Pereira de Souza¹

¹Universidade Santa Cecília

(Invited Editor – Unisanta Law and Social Science)