Federal University of Pernambuco Recife School of Law

The Recife Law School was one of the first superior education centres created in Brazil.

[further explanation needed] Many of the most remarkable Brazilian politicians, poets, sociologists and lawyers studied there such as Tobias Barreto, Teixeira de Freitas, Assis Chateaubriand, Rio Branco, Nilo Peçanha, Eusébio de Queirós, Epitácio Pessoa, Castro Alves, Sílvio Romero, João Pessoa, Clóvis Beviláqua, Capistrano de Abreu, Graça Aranha, Araripe Júnior, Pontes de Miranda, Barbosa Lima Sobrinho, José Lins do Rego, Paulo Freire, Ariano Suassuna, Zacarias de Góis e Vasconcelos, Rosa e Silva, Sinimbu, Paranaguá, João Alfredo, José Linhares, and Câmara Cascudo.

Its post graduate course has approximately 970 students and has received the excellency award from the Order of the lawyers of Brazil (OAB) – Ordem do Advogados do Brasil.

The Recife Law School has one of the most important juridical libraries in Brazil, with more than 100,000 books, many of them rare.

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