Legal practices and actors decisions

El plan estudios de abogacía en la FCJyS-UNLP

Abstract

In the present article, we propose an analytical scheme that aims to make visible the decisions that actors make – explicitly or implicitly – in the development of their legal practices, from the consideration of four dimensions – ethics, epistemological, technical and political – which imply specific and determined positions, constituting decision-making components that guide these practices. Initially, we describe the gestation of the idea and explain the definition of practices that we elaborate, on which the analytical scheme is based. Subsequently, we work on the conceptualization of each of the components and outline some of the central questions that allow us to ask. Then, we present some ideas – not limited – about who might use the scheme, what uses it might have, and what it would let you know. Next, we take the case of the curriculum of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the National University of La Plata, and we inquire about the ethical, epistemological, technical and political training that is developed in it, with the aim of starting to give an account of the links between university education and the dimensions that the professionals themselves put into play in the development of their practices. At the end of the article, we reflect on the intentionality of the scheme and the analytical possibilities it presents, inviting the reader to make the tool their own.