Area
social Sciences
Sub-Discipline
Laws
Austral University of Chile
- City: Valdivia,
- Commune: Valdivia,
- Region: Los Ríos Region
goals
The overall objective of the Master's Program is to train legal professionals knowledgeable in Ibero-American legal culture, understood as a specific manifestation of the Western legal tradition, through the study of the evolution of its particular institutions. These students will be able to understand in depth its historical development, its current challenges, and its future potential. The combination of the analysis of specific legal institutions with cross-disciplinary methodological training oriented toward legal research allows the acquired knowledge to be applied to other legal problems and institutions as well.
Regarding the specific objectives, this Master's Program aims to:
a) To give legal scholars a historical view of the various legal institutions.
b) To be able to analytically and systematically reconstruct legal institutions in light of the historical context of their emergence.
c) To be able to reinterpret and reorient political-legal institutions to contexts subsequent and different from those of their formulation.
d) To frame one's own legal culture within the great traditions of Western legal thought, with the possibility of being able to adopt innovative legal solutions formulated in other close legal traditions.
e) To be able to offer innovative solutions for new legal contexts.
f) Understand the origin, evolution and importance of transversal concepts in the study of legal science: security, justice and law.
Applicant Profile
Applicants must:
(a) Hold the academic degree of Bachelor of Laws and Social Sciences or a Bachelor's degree in a related area in the field of social sciences or humanities, a circumstance that will be favorably assessed by the Program Committee.
(b) Send a letter of motivation addressed to the Master's Program Director.
(c) Submit a curriculum vitae.
(d) Attach undergraduate grade certificate.
Graduate profile
Graduates of this Master's Program in Legal Culture will be able to analyze the historical foundations and current problems of legal institutions. The combination of the study of specific legal institutions with cross-disciplinary methodological training will enable graduates to address, in an original and well-founded manner, the challenges they face in the main areas of legal knowledge.
On the other hand, the Program has a clear academic focus, so its graduates will be competent to conduct legal research at an initial level.
Thus, this Program will provide relevant tools for autonomous legal knowledge both to those who only wish to enrich their perspective in the legal field and to those who want to take their first steps in the field of legal research.
Lines of investigation
The program is structured around the following lines of research:
– History of legal institutions.
– Theory of legal reasoning.
– Theory of the State and Citizenship.
– Damage and liability.
– Legal Anthropology.
– Interdisciplinary perspectives for the study of Law.
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