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The Recife Law School, now called Law School,

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''Faculdade de Direito do Recife'' and now ''Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco''), is a law school in the city of

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History

The Recife Law School was one of the first superior education centres created in Brazil. It was created (together with the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo) on August 11, 1827, by an imperial law of

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, of Brazil. It was first located in the city of Olinda, and then moved to Recife in 1854. Since 1912 it has been located in its own palace at the square Dr. Adolfo Cirne in downtown Recife. Since its beginning, the Recife Law School was important not only for graduating bachelors in law but also for being a centre of excellence in philosophy and human sciences. It is one of the most important superior education centres in Brazil. Between 1860 and 1960 a social, philosophic, intellectual movement known as "" (the Recife's school) influenced positivist philosophy and its understanding. Many of the most remarkable Brazilian politicians, poets, sociologists and lawyers studied there such as

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, Teixeira de Freitas,

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, Castro Alves,

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, João Pessoa, Clóvis Beviláqua,

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Pontes de Miranda Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda (April 23, 1892 – December 22, 1979) was a prominent Brazilian jurist, judge, diplomat and professor of Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco. He occupied the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy o ...

Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Alexandre José Barbosa Lima e Sobrinho (January 22, 1897 – July 16, 2000) was a Brazilian lawyer, writer, historian, essayist, journalist and politician Sobrinho was born in Recife on January 22, 1897. In 1917 he graduated in law and soci ...

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, Rosa e Silva, Sinimbu,

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, and Câmara Cascudo. Its graduation course has approximately 970 students and has received the excellency award from the Order of the lawyers of Brazil (OAB) – ''Ordem do Advogados do Brasil''. The Recife Law School has one of the most important juridical libraries in Brazil, with more than 100,000 books, many of them rare.

Bibliography

* BEVILAQUA, Clóvis - História da Faculdade de Direito do Recife. 2. ed. Brasília: INL; Conselho Federal de Cultura, 1977. * FRANCA, Rubem - Monumentos do Recife. Recife: Governo de Pernambuco, SEC, 1977. p. 175. * PARAÍSO, Rostand Carneiro Leão - A casa de Octávio de Freitas: memória apresentada à Academia Pernambucana de Letras, 1977. * PINTO FERREIRA, Luís - História da Faculdade de Direito do Recife. Recife: UFPE, Ed. Universitária, 1980. Law schools in Brazil Educational institutions established in 1827 1827 establishments in Brazil Federal University of Pernambuco {{lawschool-stub