THE EXPANSION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN LAW IN BRAZIL (1998-2017): QUANTITATIVE PROGRESS AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSISTENCE

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Décio Vieira da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Leal, Fernando, Ribeiro, Leandro Molhano
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/view/47110
• topic: Evolução da pesquisa em Direito; metodologia de pesquisa em direito; regulação da CAPES.; CAPES regulation; evolution of legal research; methodology of legal research.; Evolución de la investigación en derecho; metodología de la investigación en derecho; regulación CAPES

The aim of the article is to describe quantitative and qualitative aspects of the expansion of stricto sensu graduate programs in law in the last two decades (1998-2017). For this, we built an original database with public data of the programs in the area contained in the Sucupira platform and GeoCAPES. The analysis of the data reveals that the area of Law had a substantial growth both from the quantitative point of view (expansion in the number of students, teachers, courses and publications) and qualitative (formation of staff of methodologically oriented researchers). In addition, the expansion movement was accompanied by a thematic diversification of studies, configuring increasingly multidisciplinary programs. To a large extent, such growth is associated with incentives provided by Capes' regulatory activity. However, apparently, this increase was not accompanied by greater rigor in the methods of analysis (quantitative or qualitative) for the development of research in the field of Law, which may explain the low reproducibility and little impact of the research carried out in the area.