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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.

Overview of Mexican Legal Education

Authors

Abstract

Mexico is the country with the largest number of law schools in the world. In the 2019-2020 academic year, 1954 Institutions of Higher Education had at least one active law degree program. In recent decades, various events have directly impact on the constant and sustained growth of these programs. This article aims to chronologically
analyze and describe the events that have influenced the consolidation of the legal education model in Mexico, in the high number of law schools and in the most recent
changes of their contents and modalities derived from structural legal reforms and the covid-19 pandemic.

Author Biographies

Luis Fernando Pérez Hurtado, Centro de Estudios sobre la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje del Derecho

Doctor of Law from Stanford University and general director and researcher at the Center for Studies on the Teaching and Learning of Law in Monterrey, Mexico. His email is luisph@ceead.org.mx. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3251-6426.

Hedilberto Rivera Villegas, Instituto Tecnológico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Graduate in Law from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León and professor in the Law Degree from the Technological Institute and Higher Education of Monterrey. His email is betoriveravillegas@gmail.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5188-1587.