Overview of Mexican Legal Education

ABSTRACT

Mexico is the country with the largest number of law schools in the world. In the 2019-2020 academic year, 1954 Institutions of Higher Education had at least one active law degree program. In recent decades, various events have directly impact on the constant and sustained growth of these programs. This article aims to chronologically analyze and describe the events that have influenced the consolidation of the legal education model in Mexico, in the high number of law schools and in the most recent changes of their contents and modalities derived from structural legal reforms and the covid-19 pandemic. © 2022 Authors. All rights reserved.