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The Faculty of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, also known as UC Law, is the oldest academic unit of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, since it was founded in 1888., when Chile had seven decades of independent life, with the purpose of training generations of leaders in the field of legal sciences according to a Christian and integral conception of the human being. This faculty is recognized as one of the most renowned and prestigious law schools, both nationally and internationally.

The Faculty trains professionals specialized in the knowledge of legal provisions, trained to perform with a humanistic, Christian and ethical attitude in the interpretation and application of the laws and regulations established to preserve justice and social order.

The career has the main areas of Law: Civil Law, Economic-Commercial Law, Public Law, Procedural Law, Criminal Law, Canon Law, Labor Law and Public International Law.

Currently, the Faculty occupies a privileged place both nationally and internationally. The prestigious QS World University Rankings distinguished it in 2015 among the 40 best law schools in the world and the first at the Ibero-American level. Currently, UC Law occupies the 36th position in said ranking. This distinction is added to the numerous cooperation agreements reached at the international level, the quality and prestige of its teaching staff and leadership in the field of legal research, by publishing the Chilean Law Review, the only Spanish-speaking academic publication in Law. General indexed in Web of Science (ISI) by Thomson Reuters. In addition, the UC Law School currently has institutional accreditation granted by the National Accreditation Commission (CNA), for a maximum period of 7 years., as well as the international accreditation of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

History
The first course in the Faculty of Laws and Political Sciences was inaugurated on April 1, 1889, in the dependencies of the Catholic Circle. With the purpose of leveling the graduates of secondary education, professors Ramón Ángel Jara, Abdón Cifuentes, Luis Barros Méndez, Alejandro Méndez, José Miguel Irarrázabal, Enrique Richard, Juan Agustín Barriga, Enrique Egaña and Ventura Blanco, began to form the academic program that today has been translated into UC Law.

The autonomy of the Faculty was until 1898, before being autonomous, Law UC depended on the curriculum and exams to the University of Chile. Despite this, the Faculty has always made important contributions to law studies. He introduced new subjects such as Political and Social Economy (1915); Air Law (1946); and Tax Law (1949). Likewise, during the second half of the 1920s, the so-called Seminars were created, predecessors of the current Faculty Departments, led at that time by professors Alejandro Silva, Hernán Larraín Ríos and Julio Philippi.

In 1953 the validity of the Faculty title was recognized, thus becoming independent from the University of Chile.

In 1970, concerned about the development of practical skills in their students, a pilot plan was implemented, which, over time and under the direction of Professor Luis Bates, became what is now the Department of Legal Practice and Assistance (Depal ). This initiative established clinical teaching as a pioneer teaching modality in the country.

Likewise, UC Law was the first UC School to open its doors to women in 1921, enrolling the first five students that same year.

In terms of legal research, UC Law published its first academic bulletin in 1936, entitled "Annals Jurídicos y Sociales y Estudios Jurídicos". In 1974 it published the Research Bulletin and the Chilean Law Review, which merged in 1982. Today, the Chilean Law Review is found in the most important national and international indices, becoming in 2012 the only Chilean publication specialized in the legal field, which is currently part of the prestigious Web of Science Index (ISI).

In 1992 Law UC, instituted the first master's program taught entirely by the Faculty, the Master's in Public Law with a mention in Constitutional Law. In 1997, the Master's in Business Law was established. In 2006 and, after an in-depth process of reviewing the existing programs, a curricular reform was carried out from which the unique LLM-UC Law program was born.

Due to the success of the initiative, the LLM Business Law Mention Program has been replicated since 2009 in Guatemala City in order to attract professionals from Central America interested in deepening their knowledge in this area.

The chain closed in 2002, when the first doctoral program in Law in the country was established. To date, this program has already delivered five doctors to Chile and has 27 students who have passed the candidacy exam.

In terms of academic diversification, the Faculty has also stood out. In 2011, the "Growing in Talent + Inclusion" program and the "Father Luis de Valdivia Scholarship" were created in order to provide opportunities to students with good performance who for economic reasons are prevented from accessing the University and to students from some original ethnic group. Currently 15 students are studying at UC Law thanks to this innovative initiative.

Facilities
UC Law is located on the "Casa Central" campus of the Catholic University, in the quadrant of Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins (Alameda), Av. Portugal, Marcoleta and Lira. It is constituted by the University Palace projected by Emilio Jequier and built between 1910 and 1914. Its address and main access is through Alameda N° 340, commune of Santiago. Inside the Casa Central campus is the new UC Law Building, inaugurated in May 2009 before the highest academic and ecclesiastical authorities of the University in the country, in a mass presided over by Monsignor Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa.

The new building has 3,700 square meters distributed over five floors. In the first one is the main reception, the offices of the Student Center (CADe) and the Office of Student Affairs (DAE), class auditoriums and a small library of legal texts; the second houses the Dean's Office and its offices, an assembly hall and a lounge for teachers; On the third level there is a Harvard-style hemicycle classroom, five seminar rooms, an oral trial room, another mediation room and the premises of the Doctorate in Law program. The fourth and fifth floors house almost fifty offices, as well as various meeting rooms, a teachers' lounge and a terrace for outdoor activities. As the building was designed for teachers, as offices predominate over classrooms, facilities from other faculties are used. Finally, the underground is conditioned with more than forty workstations for students from all over the University, with state-of-the-art computers. It has the Law and Communications Library, built in 2005 with public funds. Projected by the architect Teodoro Fernández. Conceived as a study space, it consists of three underground levels. It brings together more than 10,000 volumes and is equipped with more than 50 computers.

Authorities

 * Dean: Gabriel Bocksang Hello
 * Vice Dean: Carmen Elena Domínguez S.
 * Academic Secretary: Cristián Villalonga T.
 * Director of the School of Law: Marco Antonio González
 * Graduate School Director: Juan Eduardo Ibáñez
 * Director of the Research Academy: Magdalena Ossandón W.

Addresses

 * Law School
 * Student Affairs Office
 * Research Academy
 * Doctoral Direction
 * Graduate School
 * Master's Directorate, LLM
 * Directorate of Continuing Education
 * Directorate of Economic and Administrative Affairs
 * Development Department
 * Communications Department

Departaments

 * Department of Canon Law
 * Department of Labor Law and Social Security
 * Department of Economic, Tax and Commercial Law
 * Department of International Law
 * Department of Criminal Law
 * Department of Private Law
 * Department of Procedural Law
 * Department of Public Law
 * Department of Foundations of Law
 * Department of Practice and Legal Assistance (Legal Clinic)

Centers and Programs

 * Center for International Studies UC
 * Center for Law and Religion
 * UC Family Center
 * Corporate Governance Center
 * Center for Water Law and Management
 * UC Risk and Insurance Center
 * Economic Administrative Law Program
 * Free Competition Program
 * UC Negotiation Program
 * Legal Training Program for Workers and Employers
 * Justice Reform Program
 * Law, Science and Technology Program
 * Law and Environment Program
 * Corporate Sustainability Program

Legal Clinic
The UC Law Legal Clinic is an information, legal orientation and judicial representation service provided by the Department of Legal Practice and Assistance of the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile to all those who require it.

It operates in five specific areas of Law through students of the Faculty, who are supervised at all times by professors, lawyers specialized in the various matters of the cases they handle.

The Legal Clinic's mission is to guide, advise and sponsor in a professional and free manner all those who do not have the resources to do so, as well as to ensure the comprehensive training of its students from theoretical reflection and practical exercise.

Areas of attention: Private Law, Public Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Labor Law, Micro-businesses, Immigration Law and Tax Law.

Law Students Center
The Center for Law Students of the Catholic University (CADe UC) is the one that brings together all the students of the Faculty. The Student Center is made up of the Generation Delegations, the Board of Directors and the Academic Council.

Current Directive
The current directive of the CADe is occupied by the "Conecta" list. The positions and their respective occupants are as follows:


 * President: Gabriela Contreras Moreno
 * Internal Vice President: Sebastián González
 * External Vice President: Juan José Gatica Rodríguez


 * General Secretary: Roxana Sanchez
 * Area Coordinator: Agustín Ñúñez Calcagno
 * Treasurer: Emilia Pardo
 * First Executive Secretary: Paula Reculé Julio
 * Second Executive Secretary: Nicolás Kostin

Academic Advisors
The faculty advisers deal with the academic problems of the students of the faculty, with the adviser being in charge of transmitting concerns, problems and academic proposals to both the Dean's Office and the Law School. The current Academic Advisor is Arturo Saffie.

Territorial Councilors
The territorial counselor is the contact between the Faculty and the Federation. The territorial ones are chosen by general vote each year; UC Law is represented by 3 Territorial Councilors before the Federation Council of the Federation of Students of the Catholic University, currently they are Matías Donoso (UC Union Movement), Francisca Bustos (Independent) and Martín Villalobos (UC Solidarity).

Also See

 * Historia del Derecho de Chile
 * Campus Oriente (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
 * Iusnaturalismo