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The New Civil Procedure Code and the Challenges for the Brazilian Legal Education System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2015

Abstract

This article by Renê Francisco Hellman and Mariana Cesto aims to analyse how the New Civil Procedure Code will influence the Brazilian legal education system. The new Code is opposed to ‘surprise decisions’ and emphasizes the need for substantial opportunity to contradict the opponent's submissions. This will constrain judicial decision-making. On that basis, new challenges appear for teaching, and they must be faced and solved in order to make the new prescriptions effective. The proposal is to use an interdisciplinary approach to reformulate the legal education system. This would effectively provide better support to future lawyers regarding their development, making them better qualified to operate within the legal system.

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South American Law and Legal Resources
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Getulio Vargas was the President of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1950 to 1954. In 1937, he led a coup and ruled as a dictator until 1945. The first unitary Civil Procedure Code was released in 1939.

2 From 1964 to 1985, Brazil was under Military Dictatorship. The second unitary Civil Procedure Code, which is used until today (the New Code will start to be used in 2016), was released in 1973.

3 Brazilian National Council of Justice, Justiça em números 2014: ano-base 2013 (2014) 34.

4 Brazilian National Council of Justice, Justiça em números 2014: ano-base 2013 (2014) 33.

5 Humberto Theodoro Junior et al., Novo CPC: fundamentos e sistematização (Forense 2015) 220.

6 Brazilian Department for Education, ‘MEC e OAB assinam acordo para aprimorar cursos de direito’ (Ministério da Educação, 22 March 2013) <http://portal.mec.gov.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18533:mec-e-oab-assinam-acordo-para-aprimorar-cursos-de-direito&catid=212> accessed 22 March 2015.

7 Renato de Oliveira Brito, ‘O Ensino Jurídico no Brasil: análise sobre a massificação e o acesso aos cursos de direito’ (2008) 28 Vidya 73.

8 Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, 22 March 2015) <http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/> accessed 22 March 2015.

9 Felipe Veronezzi, ‘Quanto Ganha um Professor Universitário’ (Guia da Carreira, October 2014) <http://www.guiadacarreira.com.br/artigos/salarios/quanto-ganha-um-professor-universitario/> accessed 22 March 2015.

10 Brazilian Department for Education, ‘Cursos Recomendados/Reconhecidos’ (CAPES, 1 April 2014) <http://www.capes.gov.br/cursos-recomendados> accessed 22 March 2015.

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13 UNESCO, ‘The four pillars of learning’ (UNESCO) <http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/networks/global-networks/aspnet/about-us/strategy/the-four-pillars-of-learning/> accessed 22 March 2015.

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