Law and Social Reality

• Autor: Cornejo Chávez, Héctor
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1969
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/12826
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/12826
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Law; School of Law; social reality; social change; Peru; legal education; Derecho; Facultad de Derecho; realidad social; cambio social; Perú; enseñanza del derecho

The present work criticizes the teaching of law in university classrooms and its disconnection with the social reality of the country. The author points out that the main problems in legal education are related to the numerous legal institutions that do not have a practical application, as well as the lack of standards that are an expression of the reality that inspires them. The consequence of this is that lawyers and justice operators end up either adapting the law to make it operational or breaking its intention. The article proposes that a possible solution to the problem is found in academic research that can respond, in a dynamic and functional way, to the needs of the Peruvian social reality and not so much in the accumulation of theses that only compile what famous jurists have already mentioned. In this way, the author concludes by pointing out that the law cannot be alien to the reality of the country, but rather, it must be a factor of social change.