FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV Direito Rio) was created with the challenge of transforming the teaching, production and application of Law in Brazil. Our DNA carries an unceasing commitment to reality:
IN TEACHING – Stimulating experimentalism, criticism, a multidisciplinary and international perspective, with learning focused on creative solutions to legal problems in a global world.
IN RESEARCH – Formulating precise and empirically informed diagnoses of Brazilian realities and producing innovative solutions for the strengthening of institutions and national development.
IN RELATION TO SOCIETY – Reinforcing commitments to democracy, the rule of law, human rights, ethics and efficiency in institutions, bringing academia closer to the real world.
IN RELATION TO THE WORLD – Being a center of production for legal knowledge across global subjects and an international point of reference for the understanding of Brazil’s legal institutional reality.
By following these paths, FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School supports Fundação Getulio Vargas’ mission to contribute to the socioeconomic development of Brazil, to a responsible and shared governance, and to Brazil’s presence on the international scene.
WE DO NOT TEACH FOR SCHOOL, BUT FOR LIFE.
We are an innovative and interdisciplinary School that teaches Program for Lawyers, Legal Data Science, Decision Theory, Transnational Law, Mediation and Negotiation, Public Speaking and Financial Education.
STUDENTS AS PROTAGONISTS
We encourage thought and creativity to find solutions to everyday problems. We want more active citizens, protagonists in the classroom and in society.
FGV IS THE 3TH BEST THINK TANK IN THE WORLD.
The institution has remained best think tank in Latin America for 12 CONSECUTIVE YEARS, and has maintained global leadership as best managed think tank in the world for three onsecutive years.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OFFICE
The international affairs office receive the international students and help them through all their journey at the School. We have more than 55 international partnerships with the best universities around the world and 10% of all student body is composed by foreign students. We teach in portuguese and we have classes also in english. We have a lot of visiting professors all over the year that will teach you short courses and bootcamps courses. Despite the fact that you can take all these opportunities at FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School, you can also choose some activities from other schools of FGV, like economics, business administration, international relations, social sciences and mathematics.
RIO, OUR HOME.
FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School is located at Praia de Botafogo, one of the most beautiful Rio de Janeiro postcards’.
We are really near at the Sugar Loaf and the Crist Redeemer, so its a wonderful place to study.
