Volume 28, Issue 4 pp. 1045-1073

Lawyers' Associations and the Brazilian State, 1843-1997

Maria da Gloria Bonelli

Maria da Gloria Bonelli

Maria da Gloria Bonelli is professor of sociology at the Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil, where she coordinates a research project on relations between legal professions (lawyers, judges, and prosecutors) and the state in Brazil.

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First published: 28 July 2006
Citations: 4

This research received funding from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). It was translated from Portuguese by Karl Monsma.

Abstract

This study focuses on the trajectories of the Institute of Brazilian Lawyers (Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros, or IAB), created in 1843, and the Order of Lawyers of Brazil (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, or OAB), formed in 1933, extending the analysis up to 1997. The article has three objectives: (a) to point out the role played by expertise in the cohesion of the IAB-OAB, changing its public image from one of the political counterelite to that of representatives of civil society, with the “institutional vocation” to defend juridical order and, later, human and citizenship rights; (b) to describe the social ties that permeate the legal world, preventing internal disputes from becoming deep and lasting cleavages; and (c) to contrast the experience of the Brazilian bar with those of the German and French.

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