Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal Education

This paper proposes an approach to justice as a driving force which moves people towards rectitude, balance and harmony. The hybris is presented as the opposite force, one that animates the subject towards perversion, domination and discord. Drawing on that perspective, we describe diverse aspects o...

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Main Author: Fernando Del Mastro Puccio
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 2018-11-01
Series:Derecho PUCP
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Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/20444
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description This paper proposes an approach to justice as a driving force which moves people towards rectitude, balance and harmony. The hybris is presented as the opposite force, one that animates the subject towards perversion, domination and discord. Drawing on that perspective, we describe diverse aspects of legal education that elicit the hybris. Particularly, we argue that, through hidden curriculum channels, legal education fuels perversion, domination and discord within the inner world of law students. This effort seeks to contribute to legal education’s critical studies by providing a framework through which criticisms —usually unarticulated— on this matter can be integrated around the idea of justice as a driving force. Furthermore, it presents issues and experiences that are usually not recognized as problematic in the reflections about legal education. Finally, this is a highly relevant effort given the current social context in Peru, where the practice of law —both private and public— is going through a serious ethical crisis. This demands law schools to ask themselves, with genuine self-critical attitude, which role they are playing in this crisis.
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spelling doaj.art-60eced66d1b84444878ee2e6f4133f9d2022-12-21T23:19:26ZspaPontificia Universidad Católica del PerúDerecho PUCP0251-34202305-25462018-11-0108146351010.18800/derechopucp.201802.01519273Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal EducationFernando Del Mastro Puccio0Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúThis paper proposes an approach to justice as a driving force which moves people towards rectitude, balance and harmony. The hybris is presented as the opposite force, one that animates the subject towards perversion, domination and discord. Drawing on that perspective, we describe diverse aspects of legal education that elicit the hybris. Particularly, we argue that, through hidden curriculum channels, legal education fuels perversion, domination and discord within the inner world of law students. This effort seeks to contribute to legal education’s critical studies by providing a framework through which criticisms —usually unarticulated— on this matter can be integrated around the idea of justice as a driving force. Furthermore, it presents issues and experiences that are usually not recognized as problematic in the reflections about legal education. Finally, this is a highly relevant effort given the current social context in Peru, where the practice of law —both private and public— is going through a serious ethical crisis. This demands law schools to ask themselves, with genuine self-critical attitude, which role they are playing in this crisis.http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/20444Enseñanza del derechomitologíahistoria de las religionesjusticiateoría crítica del derechocurrículo oculto
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Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal Education
Derecho PUCP
Enseñanza del derecho
mitología
historia de las religiones
justicia
teoría crítica del derecho
currículo oculto
title Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal Education
title_full Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal Education
title_fullStr Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal Education
title_full_unstemmed Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal Education
title_short Let Your Kingdom Come: Justice as an Absent Driving Force in Legal Education
title_sort let your kingdom come justice as an absent driving force in legal education
topic Enseñanza del derecho
mitología
historia de las religiones
justicia
teoría crítica del derecho
currículo oculto
url http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/20444
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