Legal Education in the Perspective of Fighting Youth Rights Recognition in Brazil : The Other Place in Learning

The article has the objective of making a review of the legal education in the perspec- tive of the young people’s rights and a struggle for recognizing of these rights, emphasi- zing their learning process and their possibilities of emancipation. The analysis unfolds in three aspects: the reconstruction of the role of the university and its legal education; the connection to the students life style and their subjectivity construction processes; and it examines the struggle on recognizing their rights based on Axel Honneth’s thought, which relates teaching and learning. Finally, the analysis draws the attention to the emancipation of perspectives on legal education and the rights of young people, in Brazi- lian’s reality. The analysis presumes to identify paradoxes and blockages of the emancipa- tion of young people in legal education, while supportes the premise that it is possible to achieve the rights of young people as well as all people in society through teaching and learning in law higher education