The Crossroads of Justice in the New State (1937-1945): the Supreme Federal Court and the Idea of a Robe Oligarchy

This article analyses the attempts to transform the Judiciary and the legal system during the New State. Based on the premises of intellectual history, it seeks to present the main debates that pervaded legal doctrine between 1937-1945. The common thread is centered on the study of the works of juri...

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Autor: Rosenfield, Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)
Repositorio:Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Online)
Idioma:portugués
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Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistafadir/article/view/53672
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Palabra clave:História das Idéias
Estado Novo
Era Vargas
Realismo Jurídico
Constitucionalismo Autoritário
Authoritarian Constitutionalism
Legal Realism
Vargas Regime
New State
History of Ideas
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Sumario:This article analyses the attempts to transform the Judiciary and the legal system during the New State. Based on the premises of intellectual history, it seeks to present the main debates that pervaded legal doctrine between 1937-1945. The common thread is centered on the study of the works of jurists aligned with the Vargas regime, presenting their public positions on issues involving the administration of Justice. The following themes are addressed: the question of the independence and autonomy of the judiciary, the role of the Federal Supreme Court in the political system, the limits of judicial review, the reformulation of legal hermeneutics and the relationship between the Judiciary and the Executive Branch. Thus, it is presented a map of the debates that took place in the Vargas Era with regard to the efforts to control and dominate Justice in the authoritarian constitutionalism then prevailing.