The unfinished business of legal education

Abstract

The article focuses on the relevance of the practical knowledge for learning law. The schools of law in Spain suffer a deficit on specific programs of this matter in their studies plans. An historic analysis shows that practical knowledge suffered a hard regression in favour of a theoretical approach following the Alexander von Humboldt point of view. The Spanish model to reach the status of public official based on a rote learning of hundred of conceptual items reinforces this process and becomes a handicap for the innovation of the legal studies and practice. As a result students lack on skills to develop professional attitudes and to be prepared for a long life learning.

Keywords

• aprendizaje desde la práctica
• derecho
• profesiones jurídicas
• formación profesional
• educación superior