The Critical Theory of Law in Brazil and the Explanatory Memorandum of the New Law Reform Programme

The term Critical Theory of Law emerged with the Frankfurt School, breaking with the forms of rationality that unite science and technology in new forms of domination. We must question the law, discuss the norms in our legal system in a reflexive way, taking into account a certain social formation, admitting, above all, other forms of legal practice, different from those that already exist. If we do this, we will be thinking about law in a critical way, and this is what Critical Legal Theory is called.