Please note: The following post is the first in a series that will be published in English.
In this case, the post summarizes a presentation given by prof. Marcus Faro de Castro (Faculty of Law, Universidade de Brasília) at the the Global Legal Education Forum – Panel: ‘Globalization, Crisis and LegalEducation’. Held at the Harvard Law School – Cambridge, MA, on March 23-25, 2012.
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Legal ideas, institutions and legal education: challenges posed by globalization
by Marcus Faro de Castro
1 - Introduction: The Rise of ‘Global Law’ Discourse
Some Brazilian jurists in the 1990s began writing about the emergence of they called “global law”. The main idea behind this notion was that an impersonal process of change was taking place internationally and was bringing many rapid and inevitable transformations across world. The argument was that these transformations affected the way jurists think about the law and legal institutions. Jurists should now recognize the need — it was argued — for the adoption of sweeping reforms driven by global economic competition. And this meant that local legal institutions and ideas about them had to be completely revised.
The result of this new legal discourse in Brazil has been the development of a whole new set of legal ideas which supported several innovations in legal institutions. First was a “discreet and silent revolution” in local antitrust law and policy. As described by Luis Fernando Schuartz (“A Desconstitucionalização do Direito de Defesa da Concorrência”, Revista do IBRAC, 2009, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 335), Leia o resto deste post »

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