Public Interest Law Clinics in Latin America: A Tool against Legal Formalism
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bHowever, the concept of law has analytical and practical priority over the other two categories The different concepts of law indicate us what are law’s structural elements, the aims it should attain and/or the roles that the various legal actors (judges, legislators, and practitioners, for example) should play in legal practice. In this way, usually, law schools’ curricula and teaching methodologies are constructed around the dominant concept of law in the legal community. The aim of education is, normally, to reproduce in the new generations the concept of law that is considered plausible in a particular community. Equally, legal education determines some of the basic characteristics of legal practice. Young lawyers will be guided in their professional life by the conceptual categories learned and will try to satisfy the normative requirements imposed to the roles that they incarnate in legal practice, e.g., judges, legislators, and practitioners.
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