Método do caso e prudência no ensino jurídico.

Abstract

The article focuses on the need to adopt the case study method together with the analysis of the eight virtues of prudence to optimize the quality of legal education in Brazilian legal courses. Despite the emergence of the post-positivism and the evolution of the Democratic State of Law committed to the realization of fundamental rights, which occurred from the second half of the twentieth century, the teaching methodology of lectures, implemented since the creation of the first Brazilian legal courses in the nineteenth century, remains the predominant didactic method. This fact compromises the possibility of training legal operators to manage a legal system based on innumerable principles in a context of enlargement of the role of the Judiciary. It is approached that the conception of what is the Law should directly affect the way of teaching it. To this end, this work follows the deductive approach method in qualitative bibliographic research, developing an analysis using historical and comparative procedure methods, concluding that the adoption of the case method combined with the analysis of the eight virtues of prudence, is the adequate proposal for the qualitative growth of Law courses in Brazil.