O ENSINO JURÍDICO DO PROCESSO LEGISLATIVO: ANÁLISE DA OFERTA CURRICULAR NOS CURSOS DE DIREITO DE UNIVERSIDADES FEDERAIS

Abstract

This work analyzes the curricular offer of the Legislative Process discipline in legal education, in Law courses, at federal universities. The objective is to understand whether legal teaching about the Legislative Process is present in the curricula of Law Courses. To this end, it uses 27 undergraduate courses as a sample (from a federal university, in each of the 26 Brazilian States and the Federal District). The methodology includes bibliographical research on topics such as Legislative Power and Legal Education in Brazil; documentary research on the Pedagogical Projects of the Courses; descriptive research, where the following are analyzed: Curricular Structures — to investigate whether there is an offer of the Legislative Process discipline (or related subjects, such as: Legislative Technique, Legislative Procedural Law, Parliamentary Law — and the Syllabuses of each of the disciplines that make up the curriculum of the course — in order to determine whether Legislative Process is taught as a subject, curricular unit, subject of a curricular unit, or if it is not taught —. The hypothesis raised in the research is about the possibility of the Legislative Process subject being a necessary curricular component in training academics of Law graduates. The study presents content linked to the origin of legislative power in Brazil, legislative process, legislative houses, technical quality of legislative proposals, job market in the area, history and teaching of law in Brazil, university reform, higher education as a science production space or recruiter of qualified labor. It brings notes regarding the curricular scenario of legal education in Brazil and the observance of current laws and regulations that deal with updating and adaptation. The collection, analysis and results of the sampling are presented; the study concludes that: Legislative Process (from a legal point of view) is not required by the Ministry of Education as syllabus for Law Courses — Educational institutions are free to decide whether to offer it or not —; just over half of the courses analyzed teach the topic only as a subject in some other undergraduate discipline; Students experience this learning deficit and need to seek training, improvement or specialization courses to better master the topic in their working lives.