Vivianne Ferreira Mese, a professor of Civil Law at FGV Sao Paulo Law School (FGV Direito SP), has recently launched the book "Rechtssprache und Schwächerenschutz" (Legal language and protection of the vulnerable), a winning project of the 2016 Hengstberger Award, in coordination with Professor Lena Kunz (University of Heidelberg). The book addresses the relationship between legal language and vulnerable social groups, people who often face obstacles to access and enforce their rights.

The book brings contributions that uncover, from articles written by lawyers, legal historians and philologists from Brazil, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Peru, this relatively hermetic nature of legal language and offer alternatives for more efficient communication of content legal texts to vulnerable people, either through the translation of the legal language into the common language (and attentive to the danger of stigmatizing the vulnerability of text recipients in the translation process), or through other tools such as visualization.

The book, composed of articles in German, Portuguese, Spanish and English, focuses mainly on the dialogue between the German and Brazilian legal systems, whose guiding principle is the idea of ​​vulnerable people developed in Brazilian law and the cultural characteristics of the two legal languages , with their differences and particularities.

One of the articles was written by Professor José Garcez Ghirardi, also from FGV Direito SP. At the beginning of 2017, Garcez was invited by the University of Heidelberg, in a seminar organized by Vivianne Ferreira Mese and Lena Kunz, to present and discuss the theme, with the paper "Always invisible, yet obvious: the place of socially vulnerable citizens in Brazil's legal education", where he resumed the concept of vulnerability and reinserted it within the legal education perspective of Brazil.