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About the Faculty of
About the Faculty of
We are a Faculty that offers a program of law studies that stands out for its
timeliness, relevance and social commitment, at the service of justice and based on
solid ethical foundations and Christian principles; it is
internationally accredited by the Association of Faculties,
Schools and Law Institutes of Latin America -AFEIDAL- through its
accrediting agency the International Institute of Law Accreditation -IIDEA-, which will
allow you to be part of numerous academic activities: international student mobilities,
conferences with national and international guests, trainings that enhance the
competences of being and should be.
For social service, the Faculty has 35 Bufetes Populares where they will be able to
carry out professional internships in the form of legal proceedings in the courts of the
Republic, providing advice and support to people who do not have financial resources,
under the supervision of lawyers who provide professional
support; They can also choose to do internships in justice
sector institutions with which the university has inter-institutional agreements (the
Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Justice, the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office,
the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Institute of Public Criminal Defence, the Ministry
of Labour, the Attorney General's Office).
In addition to face-to-face classes, it offers a combination of technological tools
that are developed through the CANVAS platform, where you can interact with teachers
synchronously or asynchronously, enhancing the teaching-learning process.
To be a Faculty that is recognized for its academic excellence, through the implementation of innovative programs and the specialization of its professors, with the aim of training professionals of the highest academic and ethical level, creating new legal knowledge through its research.
To train legal professionals with up-to-date knowledge, developing skills and abilities that will enable them to compete successfully in the workplace, committed to the pursuit of the common good in order to strengthen the rule of law, proposing viable alternative solutions to social problems that contribute to the development of the country.
To develop in the students a behavior based on professional ethics, critical of the
national context and aware that Law is at the service of society.
To strengthen the students' sense of national identity in order to promote a culture of
peace, with full knowledge of the rights and duties that correspond to them as citizens.
To provide students with an in-depth knowledge of Guatemalan procedural law, giving them
the theoretical and practical tools to solve specific cases.
To promote interpersonal relations towards a culture of peace through justice,
strengthening and valuing national identity, for an intercultural coexistence with full
knowledge of the rights and duties that correspond to us as citizens.
To foster in the future professional a sense of responsibility, to act in accordance with
morals and ethics, in order to dignify the University that molded them.
To train professionals with a high academic level, preparing them to meet the labor needs
of the justice sector, public administration, private initiative and professional
practice.
To enable professionals who graduate from the Faculty to participate in the social,
political and economic development of the country, generating actions aimed at the
establishment and consolidation of the rule of law, for the realization of the common good
as the supreme goal.
To encourage graduates to study and specialize in Law through the different post-graduate
programs, guiding them in the search for new knowledge in the face of the globalization of
education.
Popular Law Firm
What services are offered? The Popular Law Office of the Mariano Gálvez University of Guatemala provides free legal services to people of limited financial means, in civil and/or family cases, common, oral, executive, injunctions, voluntary jurisdiction (only and exclusively through the courts), among others.
Institutional agreements
Students who are eligible to do an internship in a public law office
Values of
Dean’s
It is a great honor to welcome you to the School of Legal and Social Sciences of the Mariano Gálvez University.
You have chosen a school that has been training legal professionals for more than 50 years, whose mission is to provide an education with the highest standards of quality, with a faculty with extensive experience in the subjects it teaches both theoretical and practical, and a program whose curriculum will facilitate your incorporation into the various fields of work, as lawyers in liberal practice, judges, prosecutors, public defenders or providing advice or consulting in the public or private sphere.M.A. Luis Antonio Ruano Castillo
Our
team
Bachelor in Legal and Social Sciences, Lawyer and Notary, Magister Artium in Civil and Commercial Procedural Law, with a PhD in Constitutional Law, all studies completed at the Mariano Gálvez University of Guatemala, university lecturer, internal and external accrediting peer of law programmes, president of the Editorial Board of the Law Review Dr. Mariano Gálvez, member of the board of directors of the Association of Faculties, Schools and Law Institutes of Latin America -AFEIDAL- where he holds the position of Academic Coordinator, National Director for Latin American Law -AFEIDAL- where he holds the position of Academic Coordinator, National Director for the Law Faculty, Schools and Law Institutes of Latin America -AFEIDAL- and member of the Board of Directors of the Law Faculty, Schools and Law Institutes of Latin America -AFEIDAL-. Mariano Gálvez.
M.A. Luis Antonio Ruano Castillo.
Bachelor in Legal and Social Sciences, Lawyer and Notary by the University Mariano Gálvez of Guatemala, Master in International Commercial Law by the University of Arizona, in the United States of America, Postgraduate in Contemporary Commercial Law by the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, undergraduate and postgraduate university professor, member of the Institute of Commercial Law of Guatemala, practicing as a freelance lawyer.
LL.M. Omar Abel Morales Lursen
Learning
The Legal and Social Sciences program intertwines the study of law with the social sciences, emphasizing legal interpretation and application in various contexts. Learning is based on case analysis, critical debate, and practice in legal clinics. Argumentative ability and ethical reasoning are cultivated to address issues of social justice. The training is oriented towards social awareness and human development in legal practice. The goal is to train jurists with a comprehensive vision, capable of positively influencing society.
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