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Luciana Silva Reis
Rafael Mafei Rabelo Queiroz
Victor Marcel Pinheiro
The work is part of the Globalization, Lawyers and Emerging Economies (GLEE) project, which seeks to identify the impacts of rising globalization demands in legal professions in emerging economies (Brazil, China and India). The project is a partnership between Harvard Law School (USA), Wisconsin University (USA), Jindal Global Law School (IND), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CHN) and São Paulo Law School of Fundação Getulio Vargas (BRA).
This study focuses on the legal honoratiores, or notable jurists, whose works shape up the meaning of existing law and guide the practice of other legal professionals. It investigates whether there were changes in the position of notables in the Brazilian legal field from the 90’s on, following relevant economic, administrative and judicial reforms, after which large corporate law firms were consolidated and gained power.
Previous studies indicate that there was significant change in the role of notables from the 80's on in Europe, with a decrease in their prestige resulting from changes in legal values and perceptions. We investigate whether the same thing happened in Brazil in the last 20 years.
The general hypothesis that guides the investigation is that Brazil presents relevant specificities concerning the legal notables, because of their unique form of relationship with legal firms and the academia.
At this point, the work consists of a literature review on the characteristics of the Brazilian notables and the plausibility of the hypothesis suggested, and qualitative analysis of preliminary interviews with three honoratiores in order to characterize their careers and its changes over time.