Abstract:
The CNJ Resolution No. 531/2023 establishes the National Judiciary Exam as a prerequisite for applying to a judicial position, consisting of an objective test with fifty questions divided into eight thematic blocks. Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights do not appear among the subdivisions of knowledge selected to compose the groups of questions for the exam. This article aims to investigate what this absence it means in the broader context of juridical education in Brazil. To this end, we conducted a review of bibliographic texts that examine the historical evolution of this area of Law, as well as sources that evaluate the formatting of the curricular matrix of legal courses in Brazil. Additionally, a survey of empirical data was carried out on the presence or absence of Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights in the curriculum of Law courses in the twenty best-evaluated universities in the RUF 2023 ranking. The results collected in the research showed that the absence of this area of legal knowledge in the National Exam reflects the undisguised negligence given to the discipline in the academic and professional training of students who will become judges and goes back to the historical evolution of the profile of childhood and youth magistrates in Brazil.
Keywords:
National Judiciary Exam; Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights; Juridical education; Curricular guidelines