The cruzaders of legal order. The work of the brazilian bar association (OAB), 1945-1964

Author(s)

Marco Aurélio Vannucchi Leme de Mattos

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2011-03-11

Examining board members

Maria Aparecida de Aquino; Sergio França Adorno de Abreu; Denise Rollemberg Cruz; Angela Maria de Castro Gomes; Maria Victoria de Mesquita Benevides Soares

• Advisor: Maria Aparecida de Aquino

Abstract

The present thesis examines the performance of OAB (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil), through its highest authority, Federal Council, between 1945 and 1964. The public action of the organ, in this period, can be decomposed in three phases. In the middle of the 1940s, Federal Council was deeply engaged in the opposition to the New State. In the 1950s, forced by the changes that reached the advocacy, the organism was centered in an eminently corporate agenda. Finally, in the beginning of 1960s, the Council recovered a strongly politicized posture to fight Goulart administration. Four themes are accentuated in the work: 1.) the profile of OAB elite; 2.) the relationship between OAB and the State; 3.) its relationship with the civil society; 4.) its relationship with the professional category that it represented. (AU)