Master in Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
Bogotá, Colombia
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The Master in Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory trains postgraduates to investigate jurisprudence, legal theory and the philosophy of law. It examines critiques of legal positivism, foundations of normative processes of human action, and currents tied to globalization, legal pluralism and comparative perspectives. You’ll study normative theory, legal reasoning, hermeneutics and conceptual analysis to account for legal realities and normative foundations.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue academic research and teaching, legal consultancy, policy analysis, public policy advising, human rights advocacy, constitutional advising, judicial clerking, legislative advising, or roles in think tanks, compliance or legal research units, and practice.
To train postgraduate students who want to deepen and investigate the object of study of the philosophy of law and legal theory, as a component of training excellence in the treatment of new currents of law, which seek to overcome the positivist perspective and account for legal realities, intimately linked with the reflection of the foundations of the normative processes of human action; Furthermore, it wants to account for the new currents of law linked to globalization processes.
