Legal Education Beyond Dogmatism: A Case Study Based on Nussbaum Humanist Perspective

Abstract

This article begins with a critical account of Brazilian legal education, devoted to official language and lack of reflexiveness. Any attempt to innovate deserves to be researched. The focus of the study is the discipline “Legal Institutions” taught at the UFJF, which adopts innovative pedagogical methods, especially movies and online platform. Using Martha Nussbaum concept of “cultivating humanity”, empirical-qualitative research was implemented, investigating if this method developed in the students the capacities Nussbaum describes. The data and the qualitative analysis indicate that those innovations have been successful in developing those capacities

Keywords

• Educação Jurídica
• Capacidades
• Filme
• Inovação