Legal teaching into the learning economy

Abstract

The hypothesis of this work is that the present stage of capitalism where we are, which can be called the economy of learning, pushes us towards a model of an unequal, tyranic, seemingly individualistic, political community. Nevertheless, the power of big companies underlies at its bottom, and drives us to a new economic and working Organicism, with new ways of human servitude. This community is globally structured thanks to ICT, and potentiates the training of competent and employable professionals, also in law, from a conception of education and law itself as innovating industries. I will try to explain why this is sustained, exposing (1) what the present socio-economic and political context in which we are consists of; (2) how this influences the rethinking of the types of legal professionals and their exercise; and (3) what implications it has for the teaching of law.