Teaching International Law in Brazil: A practice overview and its challenges

This paper presents the results of an exploratory research on international law teaching, from the perspective of those who teach in graduate-level law faculties in Brazil. It aims at shedding light on the diversity of interviewed professors’ perspectives and, at the same time, pointing out common elements of speech that connect them by similarity of their practice and challenges. The first part indicates who were the selected teachers of the research sample, briefly analyzing their demographic profile and training. The second part outlines a general framework of how the discipline is taught, based on the professors’ accounts, showing aspects of the teaching methods currently adopted and their justifications. The third part addresses the challenges reported in narratives about teaching international law in Brazil, ranging from problems particular to the discipline of international law to the lacking infrastructure in institutions