THE TRAINING OF PRACTICAL LAW IN LAW SCHOOLS IN COLOMBIA

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to raise awareness about the need to generate a corpus aimed at students or graduates of law schools, which supports the resolution of litigation, based on the application of approaches such as technical, scientific and legal; where the treatment of evidentiary material elements and physical evidence, means of proof and evidence is vital for the structuring of the theory of the case, interrogations, cross-examinations or closing arguments, deconstructing the existing theories of applied law teaching and developing complex thinking in the scholar; proposing to fulfill this purpose the application of the research-action method, under a qualitative-inductive approach, having as a first step to follow the examination of the methodology used by some law faculties of universities in the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga in the teaching of applied law, exploring and describing it to then generate a teaching model; that leads to the foundation of a clear and systematic defense proposal, regardless of the educational models of practical law received in the classrooms. The possible level of impact of this work is reflected in the number of legal professionals produced by Colombia´s law schools, which as of March 31, 2023, as indicated by the National Registry Unit of Lawyers and Auxiliaries of Justice, number of registered lawyears was 1,327,913 the above is framed in the updating of knowledge that responds to the needs of a society that must adapt to the internal and external events of daily life. The aim is to present a serious pedagogical proposal with scientific rigor as “a discipline that conceptualizes, applies and experiments with different knowledge about the teaching of specific knowledge in a specific culture” (Zuluaga. 1999).