This paper examines the relationship between the professional practice of law and militant investments in human rights' defense. On one hand it examines the collective and situational logics that configure the militant offer in the professional space of law and, on the other hand, the individual careers. It focuses both on the objective dimension, or namely, the set of social, political and professional resources that lawyers have at their disposal, and on their subjective logics that encompass the ideological redefinition of the profession. The methodology adopted consisted of the use of surveys and biographic interviews carried out with lawyers active in human rights in Aracaju. This work shows that the experience with human rights commitment plays a decisive role in professional identification.
Human rights; Professional investment; Legal activism; Social causes; Commitment