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Law Program
In this career we train lawyers who are experts in legal techniques, with a deep ethical sense, who always seek justice, meeting the requirements of those they represent, with a view to the common good.
Our teaching model develops key skills, such as legal reasoning, oral and written expression, integrity and ethical criteria, which are indispensable to perform the profession with excellence.
Law Program Locations
- Mexico City
- UP City
- Guadalajara
- Aguascalientes
RVOE
SEP 86809, dated Aug. 13, 1986; 2018 plan, in-person program, Guadalajara campus.
Admission Profile
A law degree is for you if you have the following characteristics:
- Interest in current social, political and economic problems.
- Vocation to improve society.
- Leadership and inclination for legal knowledge.
- Taste and facility to express ideas in written form and to speak in public.
- Human quality in dealing with other people.
Graduate Profile
A graduate of the UP Guadalajara Law School is capable of:
- Analyse and understand legal and social problems in any context.
- To raise and resolve conflicts in a prudent and timely manner.
- Know, interpret and apply national and international legislation.
- Exercise their profession with a human and ethical sense.
- Putting research, argumentation and writing skills into practice.
- Contribute their knowledge to current national and international research and discussions.
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
- Economy
- Theory of Crime
- History of Mexican Law
- General Theory of Process
- Ethics
Fourth semester
- Mexican Constitutional Law
- Obligations II
- Individual labor law
- Administration
- Crimes
- Professional Internship Seminar I
- Civil Procedural Law
- Anthropology I
- Intermediate Block
Fifth semester
- Human Rights in Mexico
- Civil Contracts
- Collective Labor Law
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Procedure Law
- Professional Internship Seminar I
- Oral Litigation Techniques
- Theological Anthropology II
Sixth semester
- Constitutional Procedural Law
- Successions
- Labor Procedural Law
- Securities and Credit Transactions
- Administrative Law I
- Comparative Law
- Philosophy of Law
Seventh semester
- Amparo
- Tax Law I
- Corporate Governance
- Commercial Contracts
- Administrative Law II
- Public International Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
Eighth semester
- Legal Ethics
- Tax Law II
- Legal English
- Banking and Monetary Law
- Administrative Procedural Law
- Private International Law
- International Trade Law
Ninth and Tenth Semesters
- Seminar on Urban Planning Law
- Seminar on Oral Litigation in Criminal Matters
- Commercial Litigation Seminar
- Seminar on Jurisprudence of the SCJN in the field of human rights
- Seminar on Selected Topics in International Law
- Seminar on Military Law
- Intellectual Property Seminar
- Social Security Seminar
- Seminar on the Law of the Mining Industry
- Seminar on Tax Procedural Law
- Insurance Seminar
- Economics in Legal Thinking Seminar
- Seminar on Feminism and Gender Perspective
- Environmental Law Seminar
- Public Faith Seminar
- Criminalistics Seminar
- Seminar on Contemporary Political Trends
- Seminar on Matrimonial and Canon Law
- Seminar on Tort Law
- Seminar on Electoral Law
- Egel Examination Preparation Course Seminar
- Forensic Medicine Seminar
- Legal Research Seminar
- Seminar on New Technologies Law
- Semiotics Seminar
- Introduction to North American Legal System Seminar
- Seminar on Legal Aspects of Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets
- Seminar on Political Communication
- Canon Law Seminar
- Seminar on Public International Law Cases
- Seminar of practical cases in tax matters
- Energy Law Seminar
- Seminar on Natural Law
- Seminar on Amparo Case Studies
- Parliamentary Law Seminar
- Seminar on International Human Rights Argumentation
- Seminar on Financial System Business Corporations
- Business Cases Seminar
- Antitrust Law Seminar
- Seminar on Agrarian Law
- Customs Law Seminar
- Seminar on the Right to Transparency, Public Information and Protection of Personal Data of the State of Jalisco
International Exchanges
Germany: FH Schmalkalden; Technische Universität Dresden; Zeppelin University.
Australia: Macquarie University; University of Tazmania.
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: 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; 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.
Argentina: Universidad Austral.
Belgium: UC Leuven Limburg.
Canada: Université de Moncton; Mount Royal University; McGill University; University of British Columbia; University of Ottawa; University of Dalhousie.
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
- General Knowledge Examination, in case of studying abroad.
- Postgraduate studies
"As a Universidad Panamericana graduate, I have the professional challenge every day of leaving my mark and leading professional practices with the conviction to work ethically and the aim of achieving the true ideals of life".
Manuel Sainz Orantes, Class of 1985, Mexico City Campus.