Spaces of doctoral education in law: Brazilian scholars trained abroad

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the places and the periods of academic education received by the Doctors of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) who got their qualifications abroad and are currently working as professors in Brazilian graduate programs in Law. We revisit Engelmann’s research (2008) as we examine his hypothesis on the constitution of the Spanish and the French poles concerning the scholars’ educational background. The dataset, collected from the Sucupira Platform and the GeoCAPES System, allowed us to verify an upward trend in the number of countries and institutions receiving Brazilian scholars. This diversification process is based on the increasing number of graduate programs in Law beginning in the 1990s in Brazil along with the policies on science and on the internationalization of juridical research. In the last decade, we have identified a recent preference for Spanish and Portuguese universities. This phenomenon is possibly associated with closer collaboration networks between Brazilian and Iberian scientific associations.