Educación legal y formación docente. El rol de los centros de enseñanza y aprendizaje

Abstract

The recruiting, tenure, promotion, and faculty development process at US and Canadian Law Schools differs from the system followed in Argentina. The main differences in the recruiting process lie in the selection method, whose main objective is to recruit those candidates who the hiring committees consider to have certain predetermined characteristics. Law School professors lack any background in teaching and learning when they are hired. Teaching and Learning Centres assume the responsibilities of faculty development. The main challenges which Teaching and Learning Centres face deal with the lack of pedagogical background, the preeminence of the Socratic method as the main teaching method in the Law School classroom, the existence of basically one tea-
ching and learning objective across the Law School curriculum, and a tenure and promotion system that emphasizes legal research in detriment of educational development.