The Law schools and the recruitment of higher education’s professors during the First Republic

Abstract

The text here presented is the result of a partial use of a set of informations that composed a more large research about the relations between the transformation of principles of legitimation and the recruitment processes and elites recomposition in Brazil. The analysis developed here focuses on the social and institutional conditions of admission of higher education professors in Law schools after the republican regime establishment, in 1889. The empirical data used is composed by a total of 62 agents that are part of the Law education teaching staff at the end of XIX. The main goal is to aprehend the effects of the institutional diversification when dealing with the higher education professors’ recruitment and professional career. As such, the main results point to a distinction on the recruitment social basis and, at the same time, the maintenance of certain career patterns.

Key words:
recruitment; law schools; higher education professors; First Republic.