Didactics of the history of law throughout 115 years of the foundation of the chair (Chile, 1902)

Abstract

The article analyzes the ideas of Juan Antonio Iribarren and Anibal Bascunan Valdes (and, through these authors, the ideas of Valentin Letelier and Rafael Altamira y Crevea) on the teaching of the history of law, and the multifaceted conception of the history of law, and it demonstrates that the history of the discipline 115 years after the founding of the chair in Chile has had moments of didactic innovation based on the interest in student learning and the formation of a lawyer with a critical conscience. The presence of these proposals allows to sustain the potential of the chair for the training of the lawyer of the 21st century.