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Overview of Mexican Legal Education

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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.

Keywords:

Mexican legal education , law schools , structural changes , pandemic , exponential growth

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.