História da legislação brasileira sobre ensino jurídico através dos currículos: análise comparativa com o desenvolvimento do primeiro curso de direito no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to describe the legislative development that dealt with the Brazilian legal education, since the debates of the Constituent of 1823 until the Resolution No. 5 of 2018 of the National Council of Education, through the prism of the curricula and the influences that these norms had. in one of the main and oldest law courses in the country, currently belonging to the Federal University of Ceará. Regarding the methodology, we used doctrinal bibliographic research related to the topics involving the teaching of law and its national history, primary sources that include reports and statistics from the government and researchers from higher education institutions, federal and state legislation on education. as well as records of debates and proceedings promoted by the legislature and organizations such as the Brazilian Bar Association. Regarding the results, it was found that the curriculum was given an essential role throughout the legislative history that dealt with legal education in the country, being commonplace attempts to change these to improve the quality of law courses, showing the case concrete study that such changes did not have the effects expected by the legislator. It was concluded that the focus given to curricula and their adaptations in the history of law teaching in Brazil, again, is being used as an attempt to improve the courses in contemporary times, while historical experience points to the ineffectiveness of this medium treated in isolation. It is possible to state that it is impossible to modify a panorama of more than 190 years of tradition, if other factors are not considered with the same or greater relevance than the curricula in this scenario, by all those who integrate the teaching of law in the country.