In What Knowledge and Skills Should a Law Student be Educated?

• Autor: Morales Luna, Félix
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2010
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/16407
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/16407
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Legal Education; Legal Reasoning; Legal Skills; Lawyers’ Knowledge and Skills; enseñanza del derecho; filosofía del derecho; justicia; derecho; Educación Legal; Razonamiento Jurídico; Destrezas Legales; Conocimientos y Habilidades del Abogado

This paper focus in the skills and knowledge in which a law student must be educated. The author indicates that justice theories is one aspect in which a student must be educated. Likewise, he refers that the education based on legal skill development is fine, but we must understand that it be though not in what a lawyer does, but in the knowledge of the Law along with the capacity to argue legally from it. In addition, it is necessary that the students know the legal reasons universe and know how to use them to bring a solution for a case from the Law. It be reinforce the idea that the Law education must not be finish on its description, but in teaching about the use of its categories. For it, the legal reasoning was considered as an essential aspect in the student education. The author tell us about the time distribution between the theatrical hours and the practice hours in some courses of the PUCP Law School, in which he emphasizes the necessity to reinforce the learned theory in the practice hours. He mentions that the practice hours are an important space where the legal arguing developed.  As a complement of this teaching, he refers that the pre professionals’ practices constitute an appropriated space in the education of the specific skills of professional exercise from a certain role. Finally, he indicates that is remarkable that the students be though under certain skills, but also is important to develop in the student the capacity of legal reasoning.