Academics and students had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Manuel Atienza Rodríguez, with the conference: “My vision of Law.”

Academics and students of the Law degree from the University of La Serena attended on Thursday, November 15, the inaugural class of “iusCátedra: lessons for Thinking about Law”, organized by the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of O'Higgins, among other institutions, and sponsored by the Faculty of Law of the Diego Portales University, in the city of Rancagua.

On this occasion, the academics: Dr. Daniel Álvarez Soza and Mg. Christian Merino Álvarez, together with the students: Bárbara Peralta Latorre, Nicole Robledo Barraza, Sofía Leyton Godoy and Sebastián Catalán Zapata, had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Manuel Atienza Rodríguez, with the conference: “My vision of Law.” Dr. Atienza Rodríguez is currently one of the most prominent legal philosophers worldwide; Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Alicante in Spain since 1983 and director of the magazine Doxa-Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho since 1984, among other scientific-academic activities.

Professor Merino Álvarez pointed out that “the importance of Atienza for us as a career is fundamental, since courses such as Philosophy of Law and, above all, Introduction to Legal Reasoning, are based on his doctrines and teachings exposed in his work in recent decades.”