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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 in Argentina: A critical review

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Abstract

This article contains a synthesis of the most relevant aspects of legal education in Argentina, analyzed from a socio-legal perspective. It is divided into three parts: in the first, using contributions from historical research on the subject, some of the most outstanding processes that converged in the configuration of higher education in the country are reviewed, those that act as systemic conditioning factors of legal education. In the second part, organizational aspects of Law careers are described, making use of statistical data provided by the Ministry of Education of Argentina and information obtained from academic research works. In the third, based on the contributions of our own research and that of other specialists, some of the most characteristic features of the dominant pedagogical discourse of law careers are analyzed.

Keywords:

Legal education,faculties of Law, admission and graduation from the legal profession, pedagogical discourse, legal discourse.

Author Biography

Carlos Alberto Lista, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Carlos Alberto Lista has a doctorate in Law and Social Sciences with a postgraduate degree in Sociology (UNC) and a master's degree in Sociology from New York University. He is an emeritus professor at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He served as scientific director of the Sociology International Institute, Oñati, Basque Country, Spain (2007-2009) and was co-founder and first president of the Argentine Society of Legal Sociology. Email  clista.argentina@gmail.com