Hello, dear visitors!
This blog is intendend to be a place for discussion on legal subjects regarding South America’s largest country: Brazil.
As an active lawyer in this continental country, I have chosen the role of trying to pass to lawyers and law students around the world the mechanisms of justice distribution that have been built since the arrival of the portuguese burocrats in the 16th century.
As you know, Brazil is the only coutry in all the Americas that was colonized by Portugal, and because of this we inherit most of the judicial and legal system created in Lisbon.
Our law doctrine also has much continental influence. The first law schools in the land were established five years after independence (1827), and it was common that most lawyers, until the turn of the XXth century, came from Portuguese universities.
Nowadays, ironically, we have an abundance of law faculties, 215 and counting, so much that it became a public problem, as the marketplace cannot stand so many new practitioners.
As a result, the order of attorneys in Brazil (OAB) submits the graduating students to an exam, in which they have their general and legal knownedge avaluated to see if they are up to the challenge of practicing law.
Overall, only 60 among the 215 courses are recomended by the Brazilian Bar (http://www.oab.org.br/noticia.asp?id=1464).
In the next topics, we will discuss relevant legal matters that take place in Brazil. So long.
Old photograf from my law school
Tags: Brazilian Bar exam. Law faculties in Brazil. Blog on Brazilian Law.
February 28, 2009 at 1:57 am |
Thank for your visit at my blog Felipe!Come back again .
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