4 Legal Studies Degree Programs in Colombia

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.

Law is the normative and institutional order of human behavior in society inspired by postulates of justice and legal certainty, the basis of which is the existing social relations that determine its content and character in a given place and time. Our general purpose is to train competent professionals in legal science, capable of understanding and transforming the social reality in which they are immersed with social, political, and economic leadership, for the resolution of conflicts and the promotion of the human person.

The Faculty of Law and the Postgraduate Institute of the Free University, consistent with its historical project, form integral jurists committed to the defense of justice and law based on the foundational, ethical, freedom, equity, and tolerance principles, based on scientific, universal and interdisciplinary rigor, applied to the transformation of the social and national reality.

The master's degree in Family Law is a graduate program that aims to instruct the student in certain substantial and procedural knowledge of family law. It has an emphasis on deepening and research of the student's choice. 1. Distinctive rank: it is the first master's degree offered in the country with an emphasis on research and the second with an emphasis on deepening, in this specific area of ​​law. 2. It is a graduate program that aims to instruct the student in certain substantial and procedural knowledge of family law. 3. The curriculum has an interdisciplinary component represented in the modules of genetics and bioethics, influential social transformations in the family, and psychological dynamics of family conflicts. 4. It has national and foreign teachers and researchers of the highest quality.