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Law Program
A law degree is one of the most noble and rewarding fields of study you can pursue, since those of us who practice law are driven by universal values such as truth, justice, freedom, and service to others.
At the School of Law ( Universidad Panamericana ), we train legal professionals capable of addressing current issues from a solid foundation in anthropology, ethics, and the philosophy of law. We prepare and specialize our students in modern, international, and technology-driven law, combining theory with practice through the case method.
Our motto is to train “good, good lawyers” because we seek to educate socially committed and highly qualified individuals and professionals who can ensure justice is served in every case they handle, whether in the public or private sector, in Mexico or abroad.
Main Certifications
This program has a national and an international accreditation granted by the Consejo para la Acreditación de la Enseñanza del Derecho, A.C. (Council for the Accreditation of Law Teaching, A.C.).
Law Program Locations
- Mexico City
- UP City
- Guadalajara
- Aguascalientes
Admission Profile
People who are interested in studying law at UP should:
- To be committed to their environment.
- Have a high sense of social responsibility.
- Be willing to generate changes both in the environment and in society, through professional practice based on ethics and morals.
Graduate Profile
Graduates receive a professional education characterized by high academic standards and a well-rounded education that fosters a strong sense of professional ethics. Furthermore, our graduates develop skills in research, argumentation, and writing, and acquire the ability to defend their positions thanks to the rigorous scientific and philosophical standards they develop while at the university.
Our curriculum is designed to ensure that graduates possess the following professional skills:
- Legal reasoning.
- Counseling and advice.
- Oral and written expression.
- Knowledge generation.
- Integrity and ethics.
- Criterion and intuition for what is right.
First Semester
- Law Society and State
- Introduction to Civil and Personal Law
- Fundamentals of Legal Culture
- Legal Expression
- Legal Logic
- Introduction to the Study of Law
- Roman Law
- History of Culture
Second Semester
- Political Theory
- Family Law
- Assets and Property
- Legal Argumentation
- Introduction to Criminal Law
- History of Legal Culture
- Institutions of Roman Law
- Person and Society
Third semester
- Constitutional theory
- Obligations I
- Justice and human rights
- General process theory
- Theory of crime
- History of Mexican Law
- Economy
- Ethics
Fourth semester
- Mexican constitutional law
- Obligations II
- Civil Procedural Law
- Crimes
- Administration
- Individual Labor Law
- Professional Practice Seminar I
- Theological Anthropology I
Fifth semester
- Human rights in Mexico
- Civilian controls
- Collective labor law
- Corporate law
- Criminal Procedural Law
- Oral litigation techniques
- Professional Practice Seminar II
- Theological Anthropology II
Sixth semester
- Constitutional procedural law
- Comparative Law
- Successions
- Labor procedural law
- Securities and credit operations
- Administrative Law I
- Philosophy of law
Seventh semester
- Amparo
- Tax Law I
- Commercial contracts
- Administrative Law II
- Public international law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Corporate governance
Eighth semester
- International trade law
- Legal English
- Legal Ethics
- Tax Law II
- Banking and Monetary Law
- Administrative Procedural Law
- Private International Law
Ninth Semester
- Updating Seminar in Public Law I
- Legal Update Seminar
- Legal Research Seminar I
- Updating Seminar in Civil Law I
- Legal Research Seminar II
- Business Law Seminar
- Seminar on Selected Topics in Law
Tenth semester
- Updating Seminar in Public Law II
- Elective Seminar on Legal Issues
- Law Elective Seminar
- Updating Seminar in Civil Law II
- Elective Research Seminar
- Private Law Elective Seminar
- Alternative Solutions Seminar
International Exchanges
Germany: FH Schmalkalden; Technische Universität Dresden; Zeppelin University.
Australia: Macquarie University; University of Tasmania (UTAS).
Brazil: Pontifícia Universidade do Rio de Janeiro.
Chile: Universidad de los Andes; Universidad Mayor.
Ecuador: Universidad de los Hemisferios.
Philippines: University of Asia and the Pacific.
Indonesia: Universitas Surabaya.
England: Liverpool Hope University; University of Nottingham; University of Southampton; University of Westminster.
Peru: Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo; Universidad de Piura.
Spain: Centro Universitario Villanueva; Universidad Abat Oliba; Universidad Católica "Santa Teresa de Jesús" de Ávila; Universidad Católica de Valencia; Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Universidad de Almería; Universidad de Burgos; Universidad de Navarra Pamplona; Universidad de Nebrija; Universidad de Oviedo; Universidad de Salamanca; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; Universidad de Sevilla; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; Universidad Internacional de Cataluña; CEU San Pablo.
Argentina: Universidad Austral.
Belgium: UC Leuven Limburg.
Canada: Université de Moncton; Mount Royal University; McGill University; University of Ottawa.
Colombia: Institución Universitaria de Envigado; Universidad de La Sabana; Universidad Externado; Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.
United States: Columbia University; Suffolk University.
France: Institut d' Études Politiques de Toulouse; Jean Moulin Lyon 3.
Italy: Universitá Carlo Cattaneo; Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Taiwan: Providence University; Soochow University.
Turkey: Istanbul Aydin University.
Uruguay: University of Montevideo.
Forms of Qualification
- Thesis.
- Study of a practical case and proposal of a solution with the corresponding defense of the same.
- Postgraduate studies in Law or related fields at one of the three campuses of Universidad Panamericana.
- General Undergraduate Graduation Examination (With an outstanding result, a general undergraduate average of no less than 9.0 and not having failed any subject in the curriculum).

"Giving its students a global vision of what law is, not only because of the classes, but also because in the last semesters it gives you the possibility to specialize through various seminars that it offers is what Universidad Panamericanaprovides you with."
Luisa Pasillas, class of 2010, Aguascalientes campus.
