DIREITO E ARTE: UMA ALTERNATIVA AO ENSINO JURÍDICO

Abstract

The evident detachment between law and society and its harmful consequences have drawn the attention of the legal academy community. Thus, the present work develops a study of its main causes and consequences, starting from the positivist conception of the pure theory of law, which is liable to restrict the field of legal science, opposing to the sociological concepts. Then, it considers the impacts of the exacerbated dogmatism and technicality characters of legal education, reverberating in the training of students and, consequently, in their own professional practice, directly affecting society as a whole. Facing this outdated method, which is alien to the different social realities, the interdisciplinarity reveals itself as a promising alternative to the law’s crisis, based in a methodology that produces diversified knowledge as it unites different disciplines, promoting an education based on a human and universal vision. Through blibliographic research, the goals are to analyze the current problems of law, to demonstrate the closeness of the legal and artistic fields and, after all, to explain the art’s role in the enhacenment of legal education. In this context, an association between law and art is established, leading to an investigation of the positive outcomes of this methodological and interdisciplinary dialogue in the pursuit of an approach of law closer to the object of legal science in the postmodern times, which should attend the interests and current needs of the complex social reality.