Abstract

The present article analyzes how a famous clash of Criminal Science (late nineteenth and first half of XX), the dispute between Classical School and Positive School, will be reproduced in the brasilian scenario, from two great jurists, references in the period and Criminal Law professors at Law Schools in that period: Moniz Sodré and Filinto Bastos. The first, promoter and confessed adept of the Positive School, while the second will defend and assume the Classical School postulates. From opposite sides in this Criminal Science “dispute”, both, however, declared themselves liberal. Contradiction? The methodology chosen is the theoretical-exploratory of the available and raised literature.

Keywords:
Postive School; Classic School; Liberalism