An essay on the challenges and expectations in the teaching and research of international law in Roraima, Brazil

Abstract

The author develops a critical approach to the way in which, in Brazil, certain national standards seek to impose themselves on the way international law is taught and researched, and discusses how difficult it is to avoid these standards and formulate an education plan and a research agenda appropriate to specific regions; in this case, the far north of the country, with a focus on the state of Roraima. First, an exposition is made of what are considered to be the three cycles of times that would mark the teaching of international law in Brazil in recent decades; then, clarifying that we are in the third cycle, he discusses how to think globally about international law, but without ceasing to be locally situated, that is, without forgetting that they are located, in the case of teachers and students from the far north, on the periphery of the periphery, and finally, the author argues whether traditional textbooks can cope with the teaching model of the current era, based on dynamism and objectivity, but also on regional specificities and case studies.