The implementation of the Postgraduate Program in Collective Rights and Citizenship at the University of Ribeirão Preto (PPGDCC) is the result of the audacious proposal of dedicating the program to the concentration area of Collective Rights and Citizenship. The aim of the program is to systematically study these new frontiers of law.
Lato sensu (transindividual) collective rights have been an area of extraordinary development in recent years. Likewise, the realization of citizenship has always been a burning issue of man throughout human history and is undergoing constant development and improvement. The Law plays an important role in these areas, either to identify and understand new and old problems that range from the idiosyncrasy of the State and society to tackling these problems, or to propose and conceive instruments that permit the effective implementation of the values of the Constitution.
The Postgraduate Program in Collective Rights and Citizenship proposes to address a fundamental issue, i.e., the possibility of persistent search for substantive citizenship and the contribution that collective rights can make to this desideratum.

Realization of Collective Rights and Citizenship
This line of research proposes to investigate the basis, justification, and development of collective rights (lato sensu), as well as the existing legal mechanisms for the realization of citizenship (material aspects). Within this context, the aim is to study meta-individual rights related to the consumer, environment, public property and public health, considered diffuse rights par excellence, as well as the interfaces of this generation of human rights with the construction of citizenship based on a welfare state of rights. Regarding the construction of citizenship, special emphasis is given to the study of public policies, corporate social responsibility, third sector, minorities, and neglected populations. The main aim of the systematic study proposed here is the constant assessment of these topics in the contexts of social development, perfectioning of the democratic regime, and improvement of the living conditions of the Brazilian population.

Protection and Custody of Collective Rights
This line of research aims to systematically study existing legal mechanisms to ensure the effective implementation of the material rights studied in the Collective Rights and Citizenship project (procedural aspects). Within this context, procedural mechanisms existing in the national legal system and extra-procedural alternatives for organizing collective disputes and issues related to the construction of citizenship are addressed, in addition to investigations on the procedural microsystem for the custody of pluri-individual interests, including new forms of legal assistance. Special emphasis is also given to alternative mechanisms for solving collective and citizenship-related demands.