Três reações a um panfleto de Duncan Kennedy

Kennedy, Duncan, Legal education and the reproduction of hierarchy: A polemic against the system: A critical edition, New York: New York university press, 2004.

Aventura e Legado no Ensino Jurídico

De 1967 a 1972, o Centro de Estudo e Pesquisa no Ensino do Direito (CEPED) realizou, anualmente, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, um curso de Advogados de Empresa, sob a direção do professor Caio Tácito. Este livro apresenta a pesquisa sobre a História Oral do CEPED e traz reflexões de seus professores, fundadores e pesquisadores sobre o impacto que ele produziu e produz no ensino jurídico e na sociedade brasileira.

Law and economics in the civil law world: the case of Brazilian Courts

Conventional wisdom holds that economic analysis of law is either embryonic or nonexistent outside of the United States generally and in civil law jurisdictions in particular. Existing explanations for the assumed lack of interest in the application of economic reasoning to legal problems range from the different structure of legal education and academia outside of the United States to the peculiar characteristics of civilian legal systems. This paper challenges this view by documenting and explaining the growing use of economic reasoning by Brazilian courts. We argue that, given the ever-greater role of courts in the formulation of public policies, the application of legal principles and rules increasingly calls for a theory of human behavior (such as that provided by economics) to help foresee the likely aggregate consequences of different interpretations of the law. Consistent with the traditional role of civilian legal scholarship in providing guidance for the application of law by courts, the further development of law and economics in Brazil is therefore likely to be mostly driven by judicial demand.