Environmental Law and economic analyse of law, unsettled asignatures in public universities from Western region in Mexico

Abstract

This paper develops a topic related to legal culture, the structure of Law Professional Studies at West Central Region of Mexico in six public and autonomous universities: Universidad de Aguascalientes, Universidad de Colima, Universidad de Guanajuato, Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo y la Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit.
The study focuses on analyzing the presence of two subjects in the curriculum of the Law Professional Studies: Environmental Law and Economic Analysis of Law. Both subjects in recent years have become especially important in the curricula of the universities of the country and the world, the reasons are different but summarize that: in the case of Environmental Law is increasingly a need for training in this field to meet different environmental problems facing society, then Environmental Law represents a guide its foundations to the care, protection, environmental protection and sustainable development. So for these simple reasons anyone would question his urgent inclusion in the curricula of Law Professional Studies in these universities.

For the Economic Analysis of Law, its importance lies in the scope of this notorious law analysis methodology where issues of: cost-benefit, economic impact, sustainable development, prospectively, among others, should be considered in the course of legal institutions. The law can not remain oblivious to the transdisciplinary study that includes subjects of Economics, the congruence between Law and Economics allows direct and redirect the law into its construction with demonstrable grounds, estimates, projections, that are necessary in legal research, in the proceedings in the judiciary, in the design of public policies and legislative activity.

The current status of these issues of law into the curricula of Law Professional Studies of these universities is analyzed in the following pages. In a complementary way in the end are some alternatives and reflections on their inclusion in the curriculum of these education institutions.