Article
Portuguese
ID: <
10.4000/aa.2453>
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DOI: <
10.4000/aa.2453>
Abstract
This article is part of an ethnographic research produced at the Brazilian Supreme Court from 2011 to 2013. The purpose was to track back the court’s methods for processing or, in local terms, for “making a file”. Thereby, I pursue to apprehend the legal production on the Supreme Court from the invention and distribution of the files. The article emphasizes the documents’ production, the documentation process, and the procedures as an essential part of decision-making. Venturing into the processing flows has allowed me to observe and describe that the cause resolutions includes methods of classification and routine procedures that are not a group of shared rules, but rather a group of “aesthetics criteria”, slightly consensual recipes reinvented and redefined in each administrative action. In that way, the files’ distribution highlights the objectification method within the legal process and allows us to think law and rights as a knowledge practice.