JUST SOCIETY has invited four early career scholars to a research fellowship with us here at the University of Southern Denmark in 2022. The first candidate is Alberto Carvalho Amarala who is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Brasília and a public defender at the Public Defender's Office of the Federal District with a master’s degree in law. His doctoral work concerns access to justice for socially vulnerable groups. During his stay at SDU, Alberto will study access to justice within the judicial system with particular regard to the definition of the sociological category “needy” (individual or collective – in Brazilian Portuguese, “necessitado”), which is a central eligibility criterion within the Brazilian Public Defender's Office. In addition, he intends to participate in classes, academic activities, networks of studies on socio-legal issues within his field. Alberto is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Public Defender's Office of the Federal District and coordinator of the Training Course for Popular Defenders of Brazilian Federal District, aimed at training community leaders in poor regions about human rights.
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