Economics of Legal Education in Brazil

摘要

The work proposes an economic analysis of legal education in Brazil since the rational choice theory. First it is presented a general current status of legal education the straitjacket in which not only law schools but also academic legal publications was putted into. The first part (section two) describes then the interesting levels and grades plan created by the responsible authorities and how it in a certain way put in plasters the Brazilian legal education in general. The second part (section three) utilizes the theory of habitus (Bourdieu-Passeron) to demonstrate how authorities made their rational choices in terms of legal education and uses the critical pedagogy theory (Saviani) to criticize those choices. Finally, the conclusion (section four) proposes a less rigid and more dynamic model for legal education in Brazil.