The new faces of liberal lawyers: an analysis of the trajectory of Candido Motta (1870-1942)

Authors

  • Marcos César Alvarez USP
  • Fernando Salla USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2017v17n39p86

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze some aspects of the intellectual and political activity of members of Brazilian legal elites in the First Republic (1889-1930) in the frameworks of the socalled liberal bacharelism. In the same period, the Criminal Anthropology or “New Penal School” intended to innovate in the field of both Law and Medicine. Therefore, some physicians and jurists who defended this “school” had intellectual and political projection. We present here the trajectory of the jurist Candido Motta. He was a member of the elites, professor of the Law School in São Paulo and became a politician, by projecting himself as an intellectual who defended the New Penal School.

Author Biographies

Marcos César Alvarez, USP

Professor Livre Docente do Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade de São Paulo; pesquisador do Núcleo de Estudos da Violência da USP; bolsista de produtividade em pesquisa pelo Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq).

Fernando Salla, USP

Sociólogo, pesquisador associado do Núcleo de Estudos da Violência da Universidade de São Paulo (NEV-USP).

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Published

2018-11-29

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 39 (2018)

Section

Thematic Dossier

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