The FURB Master's Program in Law is aimed at holders of a diploma of higher education in Law or in other courses in the area of ​​Applied Social Sciences and aims to train professionals in the legal area to act as teachers and researchers in undergraduate courses. and post-graduate studies, as advisors, consultants, civil servants of Justice and the State, public managers, entrepreneurs, and trainers of qualified opinions, with a view to consolidating the Democratic Rule of Law and improving legal practices that promote fundamental rights in contemporary international society and, thus, of constitutional policies. Therefore, it is intended to promote the following characteristics: a) General training to act as teachers and researchers in higher education or in research and innovation centers; b) Qualification for conducting research in the different fields of Legal Sciences and in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary environments; c) Sensitivity to act in areas of law considered a priority in the country and in its regional contexts; d) Ability to create and interpret empirical data on the regional and national context that allow the formulation and analysis of public policies; e) Ability to recognize demands from pressure groups, minorities, socio-environmental issues, and sovereignty, as well as from the market economy and its numerous forms of relationship with the law.

The Postgraduate Law Program (PPGD) began its trajectory in 2013, with the approval of the Master's Degree in Law - concentration area “law and society” - which, reaching grade 4, can plead with CAPES the offer of the Doctorate. On June 6, 2019, the new course proposal was approved. Thus, the Postgraduate Program in Law was consolidated, having as fundamental for research the following questions: a) the positivization of Law and its fulfillment by society; b) the observation of social changes and the perception of how they influence and modify the Law; c) the distance between the positive text and the Brazilian social reality.

The specialization in Business and Tax Law will enable the student to have a current and multidisciplinary vision aimed at updating or preparing the lawyer for the labor market, through the development of specific skills in the management of legal and business matters, understanding the guiding principles of the law. country's economic and financial system and its influence on tax law, providing practical tools for a critical analysis of the national tax system.

The Master's Program in Law, with an area of ​​concentration in Alterity and Fundamental Rights, has two lines of research, namely: Line A called Bioethics, Alterity and the Social Environment and Line B entitled Public Policies and the Implementation of Fundamental Rights. Fostering otherness as a principle capable of giving all polarities equal rights of expression. (BYINGTON, 2015) is the great paradigm that guides the course. It seeks to promote the training of researchers who absorb the need to produce knowledge capable of overcoming predatory and exploitative attitudes of the environment in which they operate and act with a loving, ecological, democratic, and compassionate vision that we hope can ensure the future of humanity (BYINGTON, 2008).