Area
social Sciences
Sub-Discipline
Laws
Talca University
- City: Santiago,
- Municipality: Providencia,
- Region: Metropolitan Region
goals
1. To train specialists in the legal discipline of Labor Law, capable of accounting, on the one hand, for the state of the scientific and jurisprudential discussion of the main institutions of Individual and Collective Labor Law in Chile, and, on the other hand, for the legislative policy options that lie behind the regulation of said institutions.
2. To train specialists in Social Security Law, who handle the legal analysis tools regarding the challenges and main regulatory reforms of the various Social Security systems in Chile; namely, pension, health and occupational diseases and accidents.
3. To provide background information on Comparative Law for the analysis and evaluation of the Chilean regulatory system, and the understanding of labor relations in a globalized world.
4. To provide students with the tools, by enhancing their legal reasoning and research skills, so that they can analyze and provide well-founded answers to the main problems posed by these legal disciplines today, from both a dogmatic and practical perspective.
Applicant Profile
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Graduate profile
The program includes both an academic and a professional graduation profile. In both cases, graduates will be able to:
1. To analyze the nature and legal status of the institutions structuring the model of individual and collective labor relations in force in Chile, especially those whose regulation has been modified recently and those that raise particular dogmatic or application problems.
2. To describe the different jurisprudential theories and legislative policy options reflected in the regulation of various labor law institutions. 3. To analyze the core institutions of the various Social Security systems.
4. Incorporate comparative law background into the analysis and evaluation of the Chilean labor and social security regulatory system.
Graduates with an academic profile will be able to identify legal problems related to labor law or social security with scientific relevance and develop a well-founded response that contributes to existing knowledge, applying legal reasoning and interpretation skills, as well as research methodology. Graduates with a professional profile, on the other hand, will be able to analyze and provide well-founded responses to complex legal problems that arise in the professional practice of labor and social security law, applying legal advisory, negotiation, and litigation skills in these areas.
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