The implementation of Degrees, an opportunity to internationalize legal education

MARTA CARBALLO FIDALGO; LAURA CARBALLO PIÑEIRO

doi:10.24310/REJIE.2011.v0i4.7856

Authors

MARTA CARBALLO FIDALGO Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Spain
LAURA CARBALLO PIÑEIRO Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/REJIE.2011.v0i4.7856

Keywords:

European Higher Education Area, mobility, internationalization of legal education, comparative law analysis

Abstract

The Bologna Process aims at enhancing international mobility among students and professors by improving the similarities among legal curriculums and, with it, making the recognition of credits obtained in other universities easier. This standpoint opens the door to many ways to internationalize the legal teaching, aiming this paper at highlighting some of them; beyond the possibility of spending one semester or one course in a foreign university -already planned in most legal curriculums-, this paper outlines the fact that the current openness to other legal systems, imposed by the internationalization of societies and economies, must be taken into account in the design of the legal curriculum as well, and in particular by adapting the teaching methodology, with a special attention to the comparative law method besides other pedagogical tools.

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Author Biographies

MARTA CARBALLO FIDALGO, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Profesora Contratada Doctora, Derecho Civil

LAURA CARBALLO PIÑEIRO, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Profesora Titular de Universidad, Derecho internacional Privado

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