Repensar la educación del derecho internacional en Latinoamérica: reflexiones para un diálogo global (Rethinking International Legal Education in Latin America: Reflections toward a Global Dialogue)

Spanish Abstract: Dedicarse a la academia trae consigo numerosas dudas y, con ellas, exigencias. Quienes optamos por vivir nuestra vida entre libros y salones de clase lo hacemos, la mayoria de las veces, convencidos del papel que juega la educacion en la sociedad, de su poder transformador y de su capacidad emancipadora. Sin embargo, tras esa firme conviccion yacen dudas y cuestionamientos que se exacerban ante los requisitos del mercado que establecen parametros a la educacion y a la investigacion; o cuando se quiere formar profesionales competitivos en contextos cada vez mas complejos y exigentes. Las lineas que siguen nacen de las reflexiones de varios academicos en el marco del proyecto Repensando la Educacion en Derecho Internacional en America Latina (REDIAL). Las inquietudes que nos guian se refieren al contexto academico latinoamericano y a los desafios de una academia global. Este proyecto surge en 2014 y algunas de sus preguntas guia son: ?que y como se ensena el derecho internacional en Latinoamerica hoy? ?Hay elementos comunes latinoamericanos? ?Que aspectos podemos repensar para modificar las practicas de ensenanza en la region? English Abstract: Becoming a scholar entails both doubts and responsibilities. Those of us choosing to live our lives between research and classrooms do so convinced, most of the time,that education plays an important role in society through its transformative power and emancipatory capacity. However, behind that conviction lie doubts and questions, which are exacerbated by market requirements that establish parameters for education and research and how to train competitive professionals in increasingly complex and demanding contexts.The lines that follow are born from reflections of several scholars within the framework of our Rethinking International Legal Education in Latin America (REDIAL–Repensando la Educacion en Derecho Internacional en America Latina) project. The concerns animating us relate to our specific academic setting in Latin America as well as the challenges of the global academy more broadly. REDIAL emerged in 2014 with the following guiding questions: What is taught as international law in Latin America today? How is it taught? Are there common Latin American elements? What aspects can we rethink to modify regional teaching practices? One of our starting points was to consider the way in which international law is perceived, transmitted,and received in Latin American academia. How is international law determined and influenced in Latin America? Latin America is a region considered ‘peripheral’ to the traditional centers of knowledge creation, centers from which law is frequently perceived and transmitted as though it were neutral and unique.Such perceptions reproduce and reinforce Eurocentric and US-centric visions of international law. The region’s current teaching and research.