Hierarchy of legal norms and the use of new technologies for their consultation in the Electoral Court

Abstract

This article aims to present theoretical and conceptual elements essential to the understanding of the hierarchical structure of the norms within the scope of the Brazilian legal system, to demonstrate the need for the use of technological resources to improve the jurisdictional activity within the scope of the Electoral Justice through system modeling resources that enable the consultation of legislation and normative acts in an efficient and systematized manner. At the methodological level, deductive reasoning was used in the development of theoretical aspects and inductive reasoning in the proposition of the application of a technological nature. The approach was qualitative and interdisciplinary in nature, enabling the analysis of the objects under study and the various dimensions involved in the research. The article was developed in five sections. In the first, the introduction was presented; in the second, theoretical aspects related to the structure of the Brazilian normative order and the hierarchy of legal norms were addressed; in the third session, the normative structure of Brazilian Electoral Law and the challenges for the exercise of jurisdictional activity in the electoral sphere were presented; in the fourth section, a technological application of legislative consultation capable of providing efficiency and systematicity to the jurisdictional action within the scope of the Electoral Justice was proposed; In the fifth section, the final considerations were presented with specific reflections on the theme developed.