This work wants to establish the bases to understand the quality and its application to theuniversities. Therefore, in a first part we analyze the term quality, to discover its meaning.Then it is exposed how the companies and the State look for the quality in its activities,and how the State tries to regulate it. In the second part, we analyze the structure of theuniversity in Peruvian law, how its quality should be and if the state can regulate it.

This article analyzes the law about university social responsibility in Peru. First, it has detailed how social responsibility has become a goal to the universities and why it has been studied by the business literature. Then, in the case of law, university social responsibility corresponds to the principle of solidarity. Finally, Peruvians laws about this issue has been analyzed.

Este artículo describe la regulación del derecho a la educación en la legislación peruana. En primer lugar, analiza la relación entre educación y derecho. La educación es un término metalegal; la ley solo garantiza formalidades en torno a la educación, excepcionalmente, algún principio metajurídico sobre la educación. Luego, el autor describe la educación como una relación. Finalmente, determina las relaciones educativas protegidas en el Perú: padres-hijos, educación pública y educación religiosa.