Direito em Movimento - Volume 18 - Número 3 - Edição Especial

192 Direito em Movimento, Rio de Janeiro, v. 18 - n. 3, p. 176-198, 2020 - Ed. Especial ARTIGOS men, and other public servants that participate in justice system. After the course is over, there are periodic follow-up meetings so that trainees can expand and update their knowledge of the justice system. 24 5. CONCLUSION Itinerant justice in Brazil is in many ways the judicial equivalent of Médecins Sans Frontières: independent judges, acting on their own initiative, have responded as humane professionals to try to meet the most pressing legal (and other) needs articulated by those living in remote areas. In so doing, judges have shown, contrary to Miguel Baldez’s belief that they lead a cloistered existence, that through their outreach they can adapt and rise to meet new challenges. 25 As with Samba, and other Brazilian dance forms such as Carimbó, Capoeira and Forró, but also ginga in football ( futebol-arte ) and the mod- ernist architecture of Oscar Niemeyer, one can detect a distinctive, creative almost playful spirit at work here that relies heavily on the improvisation, passion and imagination so characteristic of the wider Brazilian culture. But there is also a more serious, deeper commitment to (neo)constitutional values and the rule of law that drives forward this reform effort. The next challenge, as I see it, will be to better balance individual initiative with col- lective planning, if possible by retaining some of the dynamism, radicalism and idealism of reformers such as Miguel Baldez, without adopting too much of the complacency, caution and cynicism of those conservatives he sought to provoke and challenge. BIBLIOGRAPHY ABEL,Richard.‘Conservative Conflict and the Reproduction of Capitalism: The role of Informal Justice’ (1981) 9 International Jour. Sociology of Law 245. 24 Email from Judge Cristina Tereza Gaulia to Kim Economides, 2 November 2020. 25 There is now an organisation Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB, n.d.) which has an international presence in many law schools, and also another Justice Without Borders (JWB, n.d.) which creates transnational access to legal assistance for victims of labour exploitation and human trafficking.