Brazilian Higher Education and competences based learning approach: Legal Education as an example of possibilities and challenges.

Researcher: Dr. Loussia Penha Musse Felix, graduated in Law at Universidade Católica de Petrópolis, Master in International Relations and Law at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Ph.D in Education Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Full professor at Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Brasília. Coordinator of Law at ALFA Tuning Project Latin America. Has publications and focus her research at the fields of Legal Education, Public Policies and Innovation at Higher Education and Curriculum design.

Topics to be detailed at the presentation:

I – Legal Education in Brazil: the origins and constraints of an iconic field.

II-The challenges and changes of Brazilian Higher Education since 1988- Universities and their mission at the Federal Constitutional Level. Legal Education and it’s role at times of transition to democracy ( the 1990’s ).

III- Regulation at Higher Education: The Legal Framework for Legal Education and how competences became a part of what we don’t know.

IV- The federal system of higher education: the impacts of new policies of inclusiveness at the study of Law.

V- Tuning and Legal Education: what are the perspectives?

V- Law School at Universidade de Brasília and the experience of bringing students to a better place in the pedagogical relation. The new Curricula as a guide to open the minds in a Law School at the heart of the Republic.