The formation of the Brazilian legal culture in the second half of the 19th century

The purpose of this study is to document the existence of an effective Brazilian juridical culture which arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. In order to attain our objective, it was important to search for the distinguished jurists of this period, to examine their academic training and their writing, as well as to understand how they were influenced by the scientific production and training of the time. In addition, we investigated the existence of the university faculties in this period and the training of lawyers in this country. In this context, an analysis of this period revealed that, the fact that the law was not codified in the nineteenth century, did not mean that the old Portuguese legal system was maintained unchanged in Brazil. The profusion of laws in the private sector contributed as much to regulating the specific problems of our society as to defining the boundaries of our legal culture in the second half of the nineteenth century.