Lawyers' Associations and the Brazilian State, 1843-1997

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...

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Published in:Law & social inquiry 2003-10, Vol.28 (4), p.1045-1073
Main Author: Bonelli, Maria da Gloria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attorneys
Bar associations
Brazil
History
Lawyers
Legal ethics
Legal practice
Liberalism
Nineteenth Century
Political debate
Political Elites
Political History
Political ideologies
Political parties
Professional Associations
Professional relationships
Professionalism
Social law
State Society Relationship
Statutory law
Twentieth Century
Vocation
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0897-6546
1747-4469
1545-696X
DOI:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2003.tb00831.x