Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law
| University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law | |
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Conde dos Arcos Palace, house of College of Law Studies nas imediações, near "Praça da República" (Republic Square).
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| Former names | National Faculty of Law |
| Established | 1891 |
| Type | Law school |
| Parent institution | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Location | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil22°54′26″S 43°11′26″W / 22.9072°S 43.1906°WCoordinates: 22°54′26″S 43°11′26″W / 22.9072°S 43.1906°W |
| Dean | Juliana Neuenschwander Magalhães |
| Academic staff | 100-150 |
| Students | 3,018 |
| Undergraduates | 2,981 |
| Postgraduates | 57 |
| Website | www |
The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law (Portuguese: Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)), also known as the National Faculty of Law (Portuguese: Faculdade Nacional de Direito), is a law school located in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Founded in 1920 through the merger of two private law schools dating from the 1880s, it is the third oldest law school in Brazil, after the University of São Paulo Faculty of Law and the Federal University of Pernambuco Faculty of Law, both founded in 1827. It is also the largest public law school in Brazil, with an enrollment of around three thousand students.
Its alumni include some of the most distinguished legal scholars and public officials of Brazil, and members of the Supreme Court like Lafayette de Andrada (1945–1969), Assunção Galotti (1949–1974), Nélson Hungria (1951–1961), Nunes Leal (1960–1969), Cordeiro Guerra (1974–1986), Moreira Alves (1975–2003), and Marco Aurélio Mello (1990–present).
The Faculty is located in the palace once dedicated to the Duke of Arcos, in which the Brazilian Senate met from 1826 to 1924.
The National Faculty of Law of UFRJ is the result of the merger in 1920 of two private schools, the Free Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Rio de Janeiro and the Free School of Law. It was a long–held dream of prominent citizens such as Fernando Mendes de Almeida and others, who dreamed of creating a private law school. With the establishment of the republic and the creation of a free educational system, Mendes de Almeida called on former supporters of the idea and, with new members, worked for the establishment of Free School of Law and Social Sciences of Rio de Janeiro, which eventually became the National Faculty of Law.
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