Next Sunday (October 20th), 33,147 people will take part in the second edition of the National Magistracy Exam (Enam) in all Brazilian capitals. The exam is organized by the National School for the Training and Improvement of Magistrates (Enfam) and it aims to enable law graduates to take public exams to enter the judiciary. Of the total number of candidates, 5,516 took part as black people, 1,254 as people with disabilities (PwD) and 33 as indigenous people.
The exam was created by the National Council of Justice (CNJ) to ensure that selection processes for the judiciary value vocation for the career, reasoning and problem-solving. The qualification is eliminatory and does not rank. The qualification certificate is valid for two years, renewable once for an equal period.
As in the previous edition, the exam will include 80 questions on Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, general notions of law and humanistic training, human rights, Civil Procedural Law, Civil Law, Business Law and Criminal Law. The organizing body is “FGV Conhecimento” (FGV Knowledge” and those registered should visit the Enam website to check for announcements regarding the exam.
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First edition
The first edition of Enam had 39,855 applicants. Of these, 7,301 law graduates qualified to take part in the competitions of magistrates promoted by the federal, state, labor and military regional courts.
