CEPED - A nearly fifty-year long debate

AutorGabriel Lacerda
Páginas196-262
CEPED –
A NEARLY FIFTY-YEAR
LONG DEBATE
GABRIEL LACERDA
CEPED – A NEARLY FIFTY-YEAR LONG DEBATE 197
I – INTRODUCTION: CEPED ORIGINS
This article is a critical report of the research made between 2009 and 2011
by the Contemporary History Research and Documentation Center (CP-
DOC) and FGV Direito Rio, both under Fundação Getulio Vargas, about
the background the Center for Studies and Research on Legal Education
(CEPED), an entity organized in 1966 within the former Universidade do
Estado da Guanara in partnership with the Fundação Getulio Vargas.
The research used mainly oral history methodology, interviewing people
that worked in CEPED. Likewise, written statements of former CEPED stu-

any relevant texts printed about it were collected.1
This report is expository and contains objective data collected during the
research. The documentation is available to researchers at FGV Direito Rio
upon request.
Data analysis, on the other hand, focused on the critical discussion about

CEPED’s history begins when David Trubek,2 a young American lawyer
      
    

old-fashioned.
Or, in Trubek’s own words in his interview:3
   
   
   
 
            
            

1 Exhibit I of this paper presents a list of texts and books available in the f‌iles of the research for consultation.
2 Exhibit II presents a list of the interviewees in a comparative table concerning their position at CEPED’s time and their current position.
3 Interview granted to the Getulio Vargas Foundation in the city of Rio de Janeiro on 12.15.2009 via Skype, transcribed on 07.14.2010 and available for consul-
tation at CPDOC.
198 • Adventure And LegAcy in LegAL educAtion
accessed to, rather than thinking themselves as partners in a productive


      
    
-
derstand and discuss complex international contracts, and with information
and stamina to renew national institutions.
 
economy was subject to huge changes, the cold war was at its peak, the legal
system was being fully rebuilt.
As Luiz Fernando da Silva Pinto, one of the members of CEPED’s original
economic team, said in his interview:4
   
crazy desire they had to modernize the country, and such modernization

no sense being prejudicial against any profession or dumb corporatism.
So, Trubek looked for a diplomat he already knew and that would later be

then working for the government of the State of Guanabara in Companhia
 an entity created to stimulate the state
development.
Curiously to note that, as Marcilio Marques Moreira explained in his
interview:5
  -


project was coherent with the US program Alliance for Progress instituted
by President Kennedy. He says:
-

6
And David Trubek, explaining the political interest of the United States
in the project, also confesses that:7
4 Interview granted to the Fundação Getulio Vargas in the city of Rio de Janeiro on 10.27.2009, transcribed on 05.13.2010 and available for consultation at
CPDOC .
5 Interview granted to the Fundação Getulio Vargas in the city of Rio de Janeiro on 10.01.2009, transcribed on 03.22.2010 and available for consultation at
CPDOC .
6 Interview granted to the Fundação Getulio Vargas in the city of Rio de Janeiro on 10.01.2009, transcribed on 03.22.2010 and available for consultation at
CPDOC .
7 Interview granted to the Fundação Getulio Vargas in the city of Rio de Janeiro on 12.15.2009 via Skype, transcribed on 07.14.2010 and available for consulta-
tion at CPDOC .

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