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Teaching law and evidentiary reasoning through the case study method: Arguments for its adoption and adaptation to virtual contexts

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Abstract

This article proposes a review of the use of the case method in legal education. This is a teaching method that has had a greater development in countries of the Common Law tradition such as the United States or the United Kingdom, but which, however, can also be very useful in countries of the Eurocontinental tradition. Specifically, we propose that the case method could be used in a very useful way for the teaching of evidentiary reasoning problems, among which are the structure of an evidentiary inference, the evaluation of evidence and the analysis of evidentiary standards. Our analysis will be exemplified with cases extracted from Peruvian jurisprudence. Finally, we evaluate the prospects of the proposed method of teaching in virtual contexts.

Keywords:

Legal education , evidentiary reasoning , evidentiary inference , proof valuation , legal education in virtual

Author Biographies

José Enrique Sotomayor Trelles, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

José Enrique Sotomayor Trelles is a lawyer and has a master's degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical
Catholic University of Peru and researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
of Science and Society of the University of Sciences and Humanities,
Lima Peru. His email is jesotomayor@uch.edu.pe. https://orcid.
org/0000-0002-1155-0249.

Gabriel Uscamayta, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Gabriel Uscamayta is a lawyer from the Andean University of Cusco, Peru, and
Teaching Assistant at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Your email
is guscamayta.h@gmail.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4732-3897.

Nelly Aracely Díaz Ruíz, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Nelly Aracely Díaz Ruíz has a bachelor's degree in Law from the Pontificia Universidad
Catholic from Peru and independent researcher. Her email is aracely.diazr @
pucp.pe. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0940-205X.

Niels Jyeyson Apaza Jallo, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Niels Jyeyson Apaza Jallo is a lawyer from the National University of the Altiplano
from Peru, master's degree in Fundamental Rights from the Carlos III University of Madrid
and Head of Practices both at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and at
the University of Lima. His email is niels.apaza@pucp.edu.pe. https://
orcid.org/0000-0001-9018-7945.

César Higa, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

César Higa is a lawyer and has a master's degree in Constitutional Law from the Pontifical
Catholic University of Peru and regular professor at the Faculty of Law of
the same university. His email is chiga@pucp.edu.pe. https://orcid.
org/0000-0002-9842-2150.