The Genesis of the Brazilian Judiciary: Law Graduates in the Post-Independence Period
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https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2025.95498Keywords:
Bachelors readings, judges selection, legal history, colonial Brazil, imperial BrazilAbstract
This work addresses the selection of career judges during the transition from colonial to independent Brazil. The objective of this study was to investigate how jurists accessed the career of professional magistrate at the end of the colonial period and the beginning of the Brazilian empire, and what were the real requirements for them to access the magistracy. To this end, this study discussed the selection and recruitment process for judges in the early stages of the Brazilian empire and in the colonial regime, which preceded the formation of the Brazilian judiciary. Considering the existence of a well-structured recruitment process for jurists in the colonial magistracy, the so-called "readings of bachelors" used by the Portuguese government, this work analyzed the selection of the judges who first held the highest positions in the magistracy of independent Brazil, that is, the ministers of the Supreme Court of Imperial Justice, due to their ages and trajectories, were selected according to the logic of the period studied.
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