Antiracism legislation in Brasil: approaching the application of the law in the Brazilian courts

The paper presents the main results of an empirical research on decisions in cases concerning racism, racial discrimination and racial slander handed down by Brazilian Appeal Courts. We analyzed 200 decisions from 1998 to 2010 that are available on the online databanks of the Appeal Courts of nine B...

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Main Authors: Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado, Natália Neris da Silva Santos, Carolina Cutrupi Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rede de Pesquisa Empírica em Direito 2015-01-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
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Online Access:http://www.reedpesquisa.org/ojs-2.4.3/index.php/reed/article/view/54