Direito GV - Escola de Direito de Sao Paulo da Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Up to two NYU Law students may study at Direito GV per academic year. The program is open to second- and third-year students only who have spent at least one full-year at NYU School of Law. All courses at Direito GV are taught in Portuguese.
The exchange program with Direito is designed to offer a serious study of law in an international setting. This is definitely not the same thing as a college semester abroad. If you are looking for a semester abroad with a light course load and plenty of time to sightsee, this is not the program for you. This is not to say that you will have no time to sightsee and familiarize yourself with Brazilian culture. You will. But we do want to emphasize that this program is much more academically rigorous than many overseas programs at the undergraduate level.
In accordance with the changes through which Brazil has passed in the last decade, the institutional reforms realized in the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary have arisen the attention for new problems and fields of reflection on the way legal courses are taught in Brazil.
Brazil’s presence in the international commerce and foreign investment circuit has led to the redefinition of the contents of the classic fields of law, and to the conception of new fields and new types of law.
Equally significant are the changes in the economical thought, in business administration, public administration, politics, and even the way civil society is organized: these changes demand the creation of differentiated legal services.
It is in this context that Direito GV’s project was created. It associates the consolidated experience in teaching and research of Fundação Getulio Vargas Schools of Business and Economics with the concern of creating a new way to teach and research law.
For specific information about this program, click here. Additional information is also available at the University of Palermo is located on its Web site: http://www.direitogv.com.br/english/.