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Venezuelan law studies and legal research during the 21st century: The Universidad Metropolitana of Caracas’s contribution

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2023.69039
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Abstract

Venezuela is immersed in a complex humanitarian emergency, with systematic violations of human rights and a serious economic crisis. This context cannot fail to have an impact on law studies. This paper refers to these effects, analyzing the situation in the Law School of the Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas (Metropolitan University of Caracas). In the body of the work, the institution will be described first; then, the operation of teaching-learning; and, thirdly, the research that is carried out in it. In the conclusion, a balance of what has been achieved will be made, especially focused on the activity of its graduates, analyzing what it means to study law in an authoritarian
context, with serious democratic, economic and social dysfunctions. The achievements of legal education at U. Metropolitana are valued when one takes into
account that the difficulties have been enormous, that professors and students have been forced to migrate, dramatically reducing the faculty and student body, with budgetary restrictions that have impoverished the library and limited resources available to support research, etc.

Keywords:

Legal education , legal research , law schools , Venezuela , humanitarian crisis

Author Biographies

Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, Universidad Metropolitana

Lawyer and Doctor of Science, mention in Law, from the UCV. ll.m. (Harvard). He is a professor in the Department of Legal Studies, former dean of the Faculty of Political and Legal Studies and a member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Human Rights, UNIMET. He is Individual of number of the National Academy of the History of Venezuela. Email address: rperez@unimet.edu.ve. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0086-0855

Victoria Capriles Moreno, Universidad Metropolitana

Victoria Capriles is a lawyer, with a master's degree in Legal Sociology from the International Institute of Legal Sociology (Oñati), a master's degree in Political and Government Studies (UNIMET) and a doctoral candidate in political science from the Simón Bolívar University (Caracas). She is currently a professor in the Department of International Studies and Deputy Director of the Center for Human Rights, Universidad Metropolitana. Email address: vcapriles@unimet.edu.ve. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7269-1168

Andrea Santacruz, Universidad Metropolitana

Lawyer and specialist in criminal and criminological sciences from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and doctoral candidate in Law from the Andrés Bello Catholic University. She is a professor and head of the Department of Legal Studies. She is Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights, UNIMET. Email address: asantacruz@unimet.edu.ve. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0086-0855

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Pérez Perdomo, R., Capriles Moreno, V., & Santacruz, A. (2023). Venezuelan law studies and legal research during the 21st century: The Universidad Metropolitana of Caracas’s contribution. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 10(1), pp. 13–36. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2023.69039
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