Ballon Corrales

This book analyzes the structural crisis of traditional law teaching in Latin America, characterized by positivist formalism, uncritical memorization and disconnection between the norm and social reality. Based on a qualitative study developed in universities in Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia, it identifies the limitations of the banking model of teaching and demonstrates the positive impact of active methodologies such as Problem Based Learning, critical case studies and Critical Discourse Analysis.The book proposes a transformative pedagogical innovation, based on southern epistemologies, critical pedagogies and a socio-political analysis of law as a discourse of power. The results show a significant increase in student participation, critical understanding and social commitment of future jurists. Finally, a comprehensive model of legal education oriented towards social justice, decolonization of knowledge and the construction of an emancipatory legal education is presented.