BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

BOLIVARIAN UNIVERSITY OF VENEZUELA

Degree Training Program

in Legal Studies

August 2006 version

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INDEX
1. PRESENTATION
2. JUSTIFICATION
3. FOUNDATION
4. PURPOSES
5. OBJECTIVES
6. MODEL
7. PROFESSIONAL PROFILE AND PERFORMANCE PROFILE……………………………..
7.1. PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
ATTITUDES
7.1.2. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS…………………………………….
7.2. PERFORMANCE PROFILE
7.2.1. AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.................................
7.2.2. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
8. STUDY PLAN AND LINES OF RESEARCH……………………………
[Link] MAPS OF THE BASE MODALITY (APPLICABLE IN DAYTIME SHIFTS).
8.2. CONTENT DESCRIPTORS OF THE PFG-EJ UCS
9. STUDENT CONTINUATION AND GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS.
9.1. STAY REQUIREMENTS
9.2. GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE OBTAINING OF THE DEGREE OF
LAWYER AND EVALUATION SYSTEM
10. ANNEXES
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1. PRESENTATION
The Bachelor’s Degree Program in Legal Studies (PFG-EJ) is the result
of the collective work of a multidisciplinary team and the meetings that it has
maintained with social organizations, representatives of the Administrations
Public and litigating lawyers.
The Program has been developed based on the 'Guiding Document' of the University.
Bolivarian of Venezuela, which contains its objectives and purposes, as well as the
fundamental guiding principles. Similarly, the document was considered
Bases, Criteria, and Guidelines for the Curriculum Design of Training Programs
from the UBV, regarding the inter and transdisciplinary conception of knowledge; the
flexible and integrative character of curricular designs: the integral approach and
dialogical approach to training; the connection of the Program with integral development of
country; and the identity of the graduate as a highly qualified and ethically responsible professional
responsible and as a committed citizen to the consolidation of our State
Democratic and Social State of Law and Justice.
Our graduates will obtain the title of Lawyer.
The pedagogical and curricular criteria are based on the principles of education.
integral, flexibility and integration of knowledge, articulation between teaching,
formative research and socio-community interaction.
A social and democratic conception of Law and Justice requires a new
vision of the new scenarios, actors, and needs in the global context and
national, as well as the framework of the participatory democratization process that must
give rise to the construction of the new legal order in which reside the
rights and values that guarantee that the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela becomes a reality.

2. JUSTIFICATION
Law, understood as a set of values, principles, and rules of conduct,
plays an essential role in human relationships. As a regulatory instrument of
the rules of coexistence determine the framework and reflect the models around
how people shape their behaviors and solve their problems.
From this perspective, in a democratic, participatory, equitable society,
pluralistic, free, and fair, it must be understood that Law attains its full validity
when it is harmoniously integrated into the space and time of the Peoples to whom
serve and have the power of their creation, directly or through their
elected representatives.
This process of integrating the legal into the social finds, in the Republic
Bolivarian of Venezuela, special conditions. Indeed, sovereignty
popular has expressed itself by providing itself with a Constitution that, legitimized
democratically, it positively affirms the mandates, values, and principles that guide the process
of the transformations that Venezuelan society has wanted to endow itself with. It wants
thereby guaranteeing their will to make Justice the supreme value by
the one who: end impunity, social exclusion and inequality, and advance in the
formation of a new social structure that universalizes the enjoyment of the
social rights.
In this way, the legal-positive and customary development of the mandates
Constitutional issues play a fundamental role in driving current changes.
providing the certainty and security necessary to lay the foundations for achieving
a political system in which the fundamental principles are made effective
established in the Constitution: to be a Democratic and Social State under the Rule of Law and of
Justice that, through its legal system and its actions, guarantees to its
citizens life, liberty, justice, equality, solidarity, democracy,
social responsibility and, in general, the preeminence of human rights, the
ethics and political pluralism (article 2 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela and General Lines of the National Economic and Social Development Plan
the Nation 2001-2007).
Consequently, democracy is now defined as plural, protagonistic and
participatory, which implies the creation of intervention mechanisms for the
adaptation and control in the management of the public sector, with new formulas that combine
representation and direct participation. Citizen participation, understanding
citizenship as a broad and open concept plays a fundamental role in the
orientation and social control over the action of the State.
The state in the process of democratization modifies its traditional role and becomes
social and democratic rule of law and justice, being this the fundamental value in
return to which its action is articulated. A new framework and new
rules for democracy, where the State takes on a protective role to ensure that
its activity is at the service of people, protecting human dignity, the
respect for human rights and formal and real equality.
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To achieve these objectives, it is necessary for the Public Administration to establish its
action based on the principles of honesty, effectiveness, efficiency, transparency and
responsibility, with full submission to the Law which, as an expression of the
popular will provides the necessary certainty and legal security.
All of this, integrated into the local, national, regional, and global context. Of course,
In this regard, it is important that the changes are driven considering the
alternative approach to Latin American integrationist thoughts that,
from the richness of its ethnic and cultural diversity, they propose a social model capable
to curb the abuses of an economic globalization that pursues, from its perspective
purely commercial, produce homogeneous, linear, and individual consumers
fragmented from the whole social.
These reasons require that the Bolivarian University of Venezuela incorporate the
Legal Studies to its educational offering, making its own the need of the State and
the Venezuelan society of having professional citizens prepared to
to contribute, from the legal field, to making the new reality of social justice possible,
that overcomes injustices, inequalities, discrimination, and social marginalization,
economic, cultural, and political issues generated by the hegemonic claims of the
neoliberal capitalism.
A challenge that forces us to approach Law as a social science and object of study.
through a different linkage between theory and practice, understanding the
complexity of the legal categories that order, in the social whole, the different
dimensions of legal practices in their own internal structure and in their
cultural, political, or economic relationships and interrelationships.
The Degree Training Program in Legal Studies embraces the perspective
from which the training of the professional is based on the integration of
knowledge between scientific disciplines, technical skills, knowledge, experiences and
practices of the communities. This program considers that the Robinsonian principle
of integration between education and work assumed by the Constitution of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in its article 3, is the foundation of the
structure of learning whose manifestation is materialized through the
Community Project, recognizing its importance and implementing it
of the dialogue of knowledge in socio-community interaction.
Assume the challenge of providing them with an innovative approach, both theoretically -
practical, epistemic and methodological, as in its ethical dimension, thus creating a
new way of understanding the character of its social function with an approach
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.
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Understand the new legal order and the new State that is required.
build in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela through development and the
correct application of constitutional precepts demands a deep
knowledge and a rigorous handling of legal technique, of substantive norms and
adjectives and hermeneutic instruments, necessary for its correct construction,
application and interpretation. But it requires, at the same time and in an inexorable way,
understand the reason for such regulation, in an exercise where the policy of
Law plays, as knowledge, an essential complement to understanding
What is the ratio of law, its social foundation.
Of course, the legal regulations that justified it could not be understood.
slavery, feudalism, landownership, and that which justifies today the continuity of the
exploitation of man by man in the capitalist system, without studying the
power relations and the manifest divisions of class in society.
Likewise, it is necessary to be aware that the new plural reality also
needs to adapt to a broad conception when administering Justice, to the
incorporate alternative mechanisms that help improve their effectiveness, whether from
the extrajudicial, already from the recognition of uses and customs as
mechanism for conflict resolution, responding to the diversity it offers
Venezuela as a multiethnic and multicultural society.
The UBV aims, through this prism, to train a new professional citizen of
Deeply prepared law, capable of understanding in its interaction with the
community relationships and social conflicts; to provide answers to the
questions that pose the new challenges that Venezuelan society has in its
own reality and in the global context.
A professional whose comprehensive training as a jurist is manifested in his/her
responsibility to contribute to ensuring the fulfillment of rights,
duties, values, and constitutional principles. And to promote through its activity,
public or private, the dignity of individuals, the respect for human rights, and
the attainment of formal and real equality, in its dual dimension of equality of
opportunities and results.
An upright citizen committed to the society to which he belongs and who,
constitutional mandate is already being cemented from the strength of democracy
protagonistic, participatory, and plural, endogenous and sustainable development, the economy
popular, and equity as a new order of social justice and material base of the
Venezuelan society (General Lines of the Economic and Social Development Plan of
the Nation 2001-2007.
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Ultimately, a new citizen, a legal professional, trained in a
University that fulfills its obligations to Venezuelan society,
the one that emanates and the one that serves by its own conviction.
3. FOUNDATION
The fragmented analysis of social relations and the dissociation between the
thought and action have formed the ideological-educational conception of our
universities, favoring the development of beliefs and ideologies that shape,
from the exclusive perspective of the individual, cultural models of domination, at the service
of social, economic, political and/or religious elites.
As one can imagine, this linear perception of the human and the social needs to be
overcome to face the processes of change and transformation. Indeed, the
reconciliation between ideas and reality involves developing the ability to relate
thought and action, allowing Venezuelan society to participate as
protagonist in their own story.
The methodological postulates of the UBV, according to its own educational project, start
based on the idea that the training of legal professionals needs to develop the
the willingness to interact with reality, from a holistic view of society as
a complex and constantly moving whole.
Of course, this global and dynamic vision of society and the methodological approach
The ones from the UBV are the ones that must provide coherence when defining the program.
educational in Legal Studies. It aims to provide them with a complex understanding in
the space of social practices, reinforcing its technical dimension, always
associated with a critical vision and social awareness, within the framework of development of the
Latin American societies and the proposal for Bolivarian Alternative Integration
for the Americas (ALBA).
From the understanding of Law as an instrument at the service of Justice that
acts and interacts with the entire social sphere, it is essential to promote research and
teaching from a complex, integral, dialectical, critical, and transformative approach
that guarantees the production of knowledge capable of facing the complexity of
the new realities and influencing their transformation; which constitutes each day
more of a patriotic and humanist duty in the face of imperialist aggression faced by
the Venezuelan people have suffered, and the global crisis generated by the neoliberal system,
the model of irrational exploitation of natural resources and the patterns of
consumption that this entails, which generates more and more socio-natural disasters and
they tend to exhaust the possibilities of life on the planet.
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Likewise, the aim is to overcome the dichotomy between theory and practice, through a
unitary articulation between, on one hand, theoretical, epistemic foundations,
methodical and methodological, and on the other hand, the interaction in social spaces and the
study of the concrete problems faced by Venezuelan society. Among the rigor
technical and a humanistic, critical, supportive education, with sensitivity and awareness
social.
In this sense, it is necessary to develop, from an approach
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, new fields of research that allow
understand what role Law should play as an instrument in the service of
Justice and social equality, within the framework of respecting diversity, overcoming its
manifestations as a tool of domination of one social class over another;
promoting the protagonism of the people in the construction of their system and
social, legal, economic, and political organization; the definition of a broad concept
and open citizenship that recognizes ethnic and cultural pluralism; respect for the
human rights; and ultimately: the construction of the State in its current
constitutional configuration.
In this way, the legal aspects are studied from their integration into the social context,
political, cultural, and economic of Venezuela and the current world, providing this
the necessary knowledge for, along with a rigorous legal management-
positive, favor its effectiveness and appropriateness.
This perspective allows reality and the environment to determine the needs.
formative, addressing the Law with the aim of knowing and proposing the role that
It is necessary to play to intervene in social transformations in the context of the
globalization; providing the Public Administration with the tools to serve
effectively to the people; contribute to the individual and collective development of the community
Venezuelan; contribute to Latin American integration; combat exclusion and
social inequalities, interpreting the role of the State and society for the
conquest of a more free, just, egalitarian, and democratic society, in the context of
the proposal of "21st century socialism", promoted by the citizen President of
the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, as an alternative to the
towns, in the face of the crisis generated by neoliberal capitalism; among many other issues
of interest in the current context.
All of this, through teaching-learning situations and experiences of
flexible and dynamic training that articulates teaching, research, and interaction
community social and teach to renew knowledge and change paradigms, with
autonomy and social commitment. Where the teaching of ethics, logic and the
legal categories should be a tool for accessing information sources
through personal and collective search, systematization, and analysis.
Facilitating a critical-reflective view of the processes of construction and dissemination of
legal knowledge, of Law and Justice. And proposing alternatives of
cooperation with society that, from the training process and in tune with the
public initiatives, launch observation and diagnostic projects
community and social needs attention.

4. PURPOSES
To frame oneself within the purposes of the Venezuelan state and to be a fundamental part in the
impulse of social transformation processes, assuming education as
means to achieve these aims, from an innovative approach to studies
legal frameworks that promote a cultural and geopolitical view of the legal processes in the
local-national-regional-global interrelation, favoring the formulation of policies
and strategies of national interest, integration, justice and social equality, of
democracy, cooperation, and cultural exchange; based on recognition and
equitable participation of peoples, in the recognition of the diverse and plural
as characteristic elements of our human condition and participation
democratic.
It is also assumed that the purposes of education contribute to the development of
creative potential of every human being and the full exercise of their personality in a
democratic society based on the ethical valuation of work and participation
active, aware, and supportive in social transformation processes
consistent with the values of national identity, and with a vision
Latin American and universal...” (Article 102 C.R.B.V), as well as the dedication to “the
search for knowledge through scientific, humanistic, and
technological, for the spiritual and material benefit of the Nation...” (Article 109 C.R.B.V.)
The sovereign mandate of the Venezuelan people, expressed in the Constitution of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, an example of democracy for the world,
establishes in its Article 3 the essential purposes of the State: '...the defense and the
development of the person and respect for their dignity, the democratic exercise of
popular will, the construction of a just and peace-loving society,
promotion of the prosperity and well-being of the people and the guarantee of compliance with
the principles, rights and duties recognized and enshrined in this Constitution.
Education and work are the fundamental processes to achieve these ends.
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Likewise, Article 5 establishes: 'Sovereignty resides inalienably in the
people, who exercise it directly in the manner provided in this Constitution and in the
law, and indirectly, through suffrage, by the bodies that exercise power
Public.
The organs of the State emanate from popular sovereignty and are subject to it.
It is within this Constitutional framework that the National Executive creates the University.
Bolivarian of Venezuela and the Sucre Mission, as policies to achieve justice
social and socio-educational transformation; carried out by the Ministry of Education
Superior in order to provide real study opportunities to the majority of
Venezuelans traditionally excluded from university education and the same
time to graduate citizens trained as professionals with values and principles
established in the Constitution.
This Degree Training Program fully assumes its submission to
popular mandate and its role as a means to achieve the goals of the State
democratic and social of Law and Justice, which he adopts as his own.

objectives
The Bachelor's Degree Program in Legal Studies at the Bolivarian University of
Venezuela aims for the training of highly professional individuals.
theoretically and technically trained in the field of Law: intellectually creative,
ethically upright, with a sense of social relevance and with a deep understanding
of social reality.
In this sense, the Program seeks to achieve the objectives that are described in
Promote the comprehensive study of legal sciences, under the
principles of complexity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity, offering a
theoretical and epistemological training that allows understanding the Law as a
complex phenomenon that crosses multiple dimensions of social life and
is also shaped by the convergence of various cultural determinants,
economic, political and social.
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o Provide a solid theoretical foundation and a critical sense that allows for evaluation and
reflect on the role of Law and its impact on social life.
o To offer a comprehensive training that allows the incorporation of theoretical knowledge,
methodological tools and technical skills to face the challenges imposed
to the Law and the practice of law, the constant cultural changes,
economic, political, and social, always incorporating perspectives that integrate
relevance criteria and social responsibility and professional ethics.
o Promote a conception of Law as an instrument capable of making viable
the aims, values, and fundamental principles of the democratic and social State of
Law and Justice, in particular, as an instrument at the service of peace, the
social harmony, democracy, the general interest, and the protection of the weakest.
o Training and education of students and teachers in understanding the
presence and importance of Law in all processes of human interaction.
To provide professional guidance directed towards community interaction and service.
social, that allows to promote and strengthen professional practice according to the
principles of participatory democracy, human rights, development
sustainable, the pluralism of ideologies, cultural diversity, solidarity and the
social justice.

6. MODEL
The legal professional from the Bolivarian University of Venezuela must be
fully trained for the ethical and responsible exercise of its social mission, capable

o Understanding the complexity of cultural, economic, social processes

politicians, and to practice their profession under the fundamental principles of the
coexistence, ethics, solidarity, participatory and protagonistic democracy, freedom
justice and social responsibility.
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o Transit the global-national perspectives, understand the multiple implications of
the progressive interconnection and interdependence worldwide and the decisive role that it
legal has as an instrument for the configuration of our local realities and
nationals; guiding, according to the context, their professional practice according to
principles of equity, respect for difference and cultural diversity;
recognition, cooperation, exchange and social and democratic integration.
To act with a critical and reflective view of the conditions
historical-cultural and fully aware of the transcendence of their work within
of society, with a broad sense of responsibility and social commitment,
responding to the needs and proposals of the community. In this sense, the
A professional is formed from a conception of open-mindedness, non-dogmatic.
that allows them to perceive and understand with a lower range of distortions the
social processes and the consequences of their work as a professional.
o Understanding the dimensions, complexity, and cultural, economic importance,
social and political aspects of law, so that it allows them to adopt an ethics of
responsibility with the public, relevance and social insertion of knowledge and of
professional performance with the aim of contributing to endogenous development
sustainable development of the country, cultural democratization, and the leading participation of the
citizens.
o Critically and permanently observe the ethical values of the profession and promote
its independence, objectivity, transparency, balance, honesty, and truthfulness in the
performance of their social work, exercising their profession with a strong sense of
public dimension, in favor of the construction of the Democratic and Social State of
Law and Justice, contemplated in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela, based on cultural pluralism, participation, equity,
social sensitivity and public service.
to know the history of Venezuelan and Latin American peoples, to deepen into
the studies of Bolivarian, Robinsonian, and Zamorano thought.
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7. PROFESSIONAL PROFILE AND PERFORMANCE PROFILE
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
7.1.1. ATTITUDES
The legal professional must have a comprehensive education that enables them to
ethical and responsible exercise of its social mission. The content and direction of
This program is aimed at training a professional qualified to:
o Adopt a critical research attitude and a permanent analysis in the face of
legal system and its legislative, doctrinal, and jurisprudential development in the
internal, international and comparative law, as well as its relationship with social reality
to which it applies.
To develop your work under the commitment of making a significant contribution to the process.
to improve cultural conditions, knowledge, and, in general, quality of
the lives of people and the better performance of public institutions.
o Cultivate your reflective, analytical, autonomous, and self-critical capacity, as well as your
willingness to work in a team through a dialogue attitude, tolerance, flexibility
and consensus.

7.1.2. KNOWLEDGE AND CAPABILITIES

In addition to the knowledge inherent in all humanistic training, the professional
of the law must possess the knowledge and skills that enable them for the
professional practice in the different spaces that require the presence of the
legal knowledge:
o To know the theories around which Law has been constructed, as well as the
importance of its interaction with the social context in which it is applied.

o To manage the legal-technical aspects impeccably that allows one to contribute,

through a rigorous, critical, and creative reasoning in the elaboration process,
application and interpretation of regulations.
o Master the research techniques that allow you to access the sources of
information, as well as developing the capacity for its selection, systematization and
critical analysis that allows him to continuously improve his skills
professionals.
Ability to make the necessary legal contributions to allow for the formulation
and execution of theories, methods and techniques for planning, training and management
of public policies and social action plans.
o Ability to, from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective, detect and
diagnose needs and problems in the public and private sectors, as well as be able to
to propose legal solutions with a social vision.
o Manage the communication and methodological techniques necessary for disseminating
clearly the acquired knowledge and the proposed suggestions, facilitating the
understanding of the legal to the community.
to possess the pedagogical and andragogical tools and knowledge, which along with
your knowledge, skills, and professional experience contribute to the
Venezuelan academic strengthening.

7.2. PERFORMANCE PROFILE

The law professional who graduated from UBV must be
trained to act in various areas of professional practice.

7.2.1. AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

o Social organizations: unions, cooperatives, civil associations,
foundations, non-governmental organizations, neighborhood councils, councils of
condominium, citizens' assembly, neighborhood groups, community enterprises and
all forms of community organization.
o Organizations of National, State, and Municipal Public Power: Presidency and
Vice Presidency of the Republic, Presidential Offices, Presidential Commissions,
Ministries, Autonomous Institutes, Companies, Foundations, and Associations of the State,
Autonomous Services, National Assembly, Public Ministry, Comptroller's Offices
Ombudsman offices, Courts, State Governments, Councils
State Legislatives, Public Planning Councils, Regional Corporations,
Mayors' offices, Municipal Councils, Local Public Planning Councils, Cabildos
Open, Parish Meetings, Federal Government Council, State Council and
other public institutions.
o Organizations and international organizations such as the Organization of American States
Americans, the Inter-American Court, the Andean Community of Nations, the Tribunal
Andino, the World Bank, the United Nations, the parliaments
Andean and Latin American, among others.
Companies and other private institutions.
Advisory and assistance to individuals.
Educational institutions and research centers.

7.2.2. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

The performance of your professional activity, in the areas of action described,
it should contemplate the development of a wide range of skills, both in the
scope of the public and private. This materializes in its possible role as
regulatory creator, in his dedication to the proper application
the interpretation of the legal system, and in its capacity as an advisor for the
negotiation and the legal solution of social conflicts or in their activity
academic.
Undoubtedly, an almost inexhaustible list of competencies can be established, as much as the
possible combination between the different areas of work and the multiple activities
that human and social relationships may require a legal expert.
As an example, it is worth considering its role in the interaction between society and the
legal, in such a way that it can contribute to the development of public policies
that respond effectively to the needs and proposals of the community, so
how to be able to translate them into legal instruments that guarantee rights
citizens.
Even though it must be said that not only to its preparation, but it is also important.
his role as a public manager, at the service of the citizen, with a broad sense of
responsibility and social commitment.
In the same way, the community itself also participates and demands, out of its own accord, the
intervention of public authorities. In this sense, the professional of
Law must serve to channel these requests, from its understanding of
social context, collaborating in the design, processing and following up on the
Social projects.
But social relationships are, surely, the ones that will need their most.
attention. In this way, individual and collective human relationships require
great resources that facilitate dialogue, negotiation, and, if necessary, the
solution of their conflicts in a peaceful manner. The legal professional must be
capable of meeting these needs. The advice, from the public or private sector, plays
thus an important role in society, for which it must be capable, from its
human sensitivity, tolerance and flexibility, to use their skills for the
communication and the tools to implement judicial mechanisms and
existing extrajudicial.
And, without a doubt, all his knowledge must have the opportunity to transmit it to the
general population, and in the University in particular. Indeed, its capacity to
Bringing the legal system and the new sense of Justice closer to the population is vital for making
effective the new sense of Law. But this skill must also translate into
its teaching and research competence, in the ability to manage and implement
Practice the resources that allow to strengthen universities academically.
Venezuelans and, with this, create a new citizen and professional capable of consolidating
the transformations that the Venezuelan people, through the Constitution, have been
to sanction.

8. STUDY PLAN AND LINES OF RESEARCH

The Legal Studies Training Plan rests on a comprehensive vision of the
teaching activity, formative research and socio-community interaction criteria
advisors from the UBV.

The present Plan is developed over four years or phases. Each of which
it involves a line of formative research, around which it is initiated
the community interaction project and the other curricular units.
The research lines that will guide this Program are "Society, Justice and
Derecho”, “Estado, Derecho y Democracia”, “Clases Sociales, Derechos
Human and Social Justice" and "Legal Attention and Public Policies", determining
the areas from which the research to be developed will be defined and,
coherence with these, the other curricular units.
The Projects are the central units of the Training Plan. The rest of the
units, besides having their own substance, are useful to the same. This is the idea.
what has been attempted to be captured in the current Legal Studies Plan.
For this, it has been decided to prioritize social observation as the starting point.
that helps to understand, on one hand, the role that Law plays in society and, on
another, what are the relationships and conflicts that it is responsible for regulating and
resolver
It is necessary to configure the Curriculum in a flexible manner, allowing for
the formative research conditions its content by virtue of reality
Venezuelan. And regarding the teacher, they must combine the educational need of
essential content with the possibility of adjusting the training to their own
concerns, containing the Study Plan of mandatory and elective units.
As can be understood, approaching Law from society has, on the one hand,
evident formative consequences. As should be understood, the types of relationship
human and social problems can be infinite, regardless of encountering
the daily mobility that the speed with which social changes
produced today. In this sense, the Law, to respond effectively to its
social function must be in constant adaptation to society. And the jurist, by
part, must be able to understand the social problem and the context in which it
generates the legal framework and, on the other hand, must have an exquisite mastery of the
legal technique, which will allow for a perfect management and understanding of the Law
positive and other legal expressions, to find fair legal solutions and
suitable for each context and specific case.
The knowledge of the problem in the environment where it occurs, along with the use
The adequacy of legal technique provides the jurist with their capacity and, therefore, their
professional excellence; and it is this that contributes to the fact that, from that technical work,
can contribute to building a society that reflects Justice as a value that your
social commitment makes him defend.

This implies that, in the development of your academic training, the objective is not to
in providing information in an indiscriminate and fragmented manner. The process of
training thus involves prioritizing the proper use of technical legal instruments
that, understanding the information in the context where it occurs, allows the
student on one side, to know if the current law is effective in its context and,
if necessary, make the necessary contributions for its modification; otherwise, be
capable of reaching the solution that allows building the fair way in which it must
to be interpreted and applied.
From one perspective, training is transdisciplinary, a perspective that, far from
the legal aspect, comes to enrich it with a knowledge that allows for
student to address human problems in their entirety. Now then: the
the possibility of starting from a real problem offers the opportunity to address it in a way
interdisciplinary: the different legal disciplines that have an impact appear around it.
in the problem, thus overcoming the fragmented study of Law. And it allows for studying
in a joint manner, substantive and procedural law, with the objective that the
student can build the argumentation and legal reasoning necessary to
provide the appropriate solution, while activating the mechanisms at the same time
appropriate procedures for justice to be administered.
This is the methodological approach that has been used to design the Curriculum.
Legal professionals from the Bolivarian University of Venezuela that are detailed below
under a four (4) year in-person modality, which will serve as the basis for the design
of other modalities that adapt to the various living conditions of our
town. To offer real opportunities and full guarantee of the right to
education; primarily, to Venezuelans traditionally excluded from the
higher education.
8.1