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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Legal education and disputes about what to teach. Discourses about the legitimate legal curriculum

Authors

  • Silvina Pezzetta Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

Legal curriculum is a central aspect of Law schools. In spite of not being the only aspect involved in legal education it usually monopolizes lawyer’s attention. In this work I present some results from a case study about the National University of Rosario, Law School (Argentina). The research’s main objective is to analyze the disputes that a curriculum reform project raised among professors and students in that Law school. This work is intended to provide the understanding that legal curriculum disputes are better interpreted when disciplinarians and sociological factors are integrated in its analysis. Through discourse analysis technique I approached the discourses of two professors that participated in a public audience about the legal curriculum reform in order to illuminate how campus’ positions influence in the professors’ strategies. 

Keywords:

Legal Education, Curriculum, Discourse Analysis

Author Biography

Silvina Pezzetta, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctora en Derecho, Investigadora Asistente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, profesora en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.