ABSTRACT

In this paper, I examine how university-based legal education has been facing pressures founded on a growing free-market fundamentalism which strengthen in law schools worldwide a model of education that Paulo Freire termed “banking”. In countries of Latin American constitutionalism like Brazil, such pressures also entail the denigration of progressive understandings of the social right to education which have been inscribed in their constitutions. Against this trend, I contend that engaged law educators could benefit from using vulnerability theory, a critical legal theory devised by Martha Albertson Fineman, as a pedagogical tool considering how it lends itself to immediate use in the analysis of legal categories and in the problematisation of legal systems in a way not readily available to general critical pedagogies. In this way, legal educators can open up dialogues that promote awareness in law students who might otherwise resist discussing these topics because they are opposed to their expectations from law schools, aligned as they might be with market-based understandings of the purposes of a legal education.

摘要

在本文中，我研究了基于大学的法学教育如何面对因日益增长的自由市场原教旨主义而产生的压力，这种自由主义在全世界的法学院中都加强了Paulo Freire称之为“银行业”的教育模式。在像巴西这样的拉丁美洲立宪制国家中，这种压力也使他们对宪法所载的对受教育的社会权利的渐进理解产生了den贬。相对于这种趋势，我认为敬业的法律教育者可以从脆弱性理论中受益，脆弱性理论是玛莎·艾伯森·弗里曼（Martha Albertson Fineman）设计的一种批判性法律理论，它是一种教学工具，考虑到它如何立即用于法律类别的分析和对法律的问题化处理中。法律制度以一般批评教学不易获得的方式提供。这样，