The Law Course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), at the Seridó Higher Education Center (Ceres), was founded on March 3, 1998 through the remarkable effort of five professors who made it possible to internalize the legal training of excellence in Rio Grande do Norte, notably in the Municipality of Caicó.
With the indispensable support of the then Director of Ceres, Prof. Maria Lúcia da Costa Bezerra, the late Prof. Roldão Gurgel Diniz and professors José Aranha Sobrinho, also a magistrate in the District of Caicó, Arthunio da Silva Maux, Mário Lourenço de Medeiros and Douglas Araújo began a project that had a profound impact on the people of Serido in these 25 years, training legal professionals with outstanding recognition in the forensic field and national projection.
The Course has several teaching, research and extension projects, with an emphasis on the History of Law and Brazilian legal institutions, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Women's Health Rights, Criminal Law and Economic Analysis of Law, in addition to having a consolidated Legal Practice Center (NPJ), with the largest number of services to the population among centers in public institutions in the capital or in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, covering the areas of family, criminal, private and public law in general.
With an updated curriculum for contemporary legal training, distributed over 10 academic semesters, totaling 3700 hours, student training is entirely face-to-face and guaranteed by a group of effective teachers with professional and academic expertise, inserted in research networks with other universities in Brazil and abroad, all with doctoral degrees, in the areas of Law, Education and Social Sciences (to find out about the projects and academic production, just click here).
Course Management
Prof. PhD. Fillipe Azevedo Rodrigues - Coordinator
Prof. PhD. Orione Dantas de Medeiros - Deputy Coordinator
Prof. PhD. Carlos Francisco do Nascimento - Head of the Law Department
Prof. PhD. Ana Mônica Medeiros Ferreira - Deputy Head of the Law Department
Contacts
Coordination: +55 84-991676524 / cursodedireito@ceres.ufrn.br
Department of Law: +55 84-991936354 / dir@ceres.ufrn.br
Phone: (84) 99167-6524
E-mail: cursodedireito@ceres.ufrn.br