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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Frequent errors in the use of the methodology of legal research

Authors

  • Rodrigo Marín Vichis Universidad Mexicana

Abstract

Based on the experience of twenty years in the chair of Law and four as a synodal of oral exams, this work reflects on the main methodological errors in the presentation of various legal investigations. The confusions are either varied and randomly chosen for illustrative purposes to exemplify everyday situations in the world of learning and contemporary legal education and propose some of the possible solutions to common failures are proposed, as it is to obviate the methodology of legal research with the deduction, to confuse it with the procedural technique, to consider it as an accessory, to worry little about the sources’ accuracy, to misappropriate external ideological creations due to the incorrect use of the technology, to abound on internet sites with false information, disregard other indirect sources of information such as sites and anonymous comments, reduce the scope of knowledge to new online research and to partially use browsers in the exclusive search of jurisprudence or regulations of government agencies. Specifying these errors can lead to an improvement in the quality of the studies.

Keywords:

Legal methodology, legal research, Teaching law