Article
English, Spanish
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oai:doaj.org/article:120e0cb009194ca2b4eaa4e2702f018f>
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DOI: <
10.18046/prec.v18.4570>
Abstract
Este seeks to critically reflect on the role of alternative legal education as the cornerstone of the clinical method. Based on a brief contextual reading of the global COVID-19 phenomenon and its impacts at national level, the real inability of the social rule of law to extend social justice throughout the popular corpus is highlighted. In particular, that assertion confirms the need to decolonise the right as a breeding field of the coloniality of being, knowledge and power. The methodology for this work is as follows. First, an invitation to overcome legaloccentric or traditionalist readings of the law, which have not been critically challenged the reproductive function of the social justice crisis by the modern/colonial/capitalist state, is proposed as a prelude to the discussion. The backbone of hidden people allows us to understand that the discrimination and social exclusion currently aggravated by COVID-19 are crossed by the defeats of racism introduced by coloniality. The latter two backbone categories (racism and coloniality) are the cornerstones of the phenomenon of the double state of emergency emerging in the peripheral areas of the country. On the basis of this scenario, the aim is to clarify the importance of the socio-legal clinical method and the fundamental objectives of its implementation from an integral, social and solidarity-based perspective. It is therefore a matter of looking at the need to rethink the clinical methodology, based on the integration of other knowledge that enriches legal education in the context and allows the traditional tools of public interest law to be used as anti-hegemonic combat inputs, capable of structurally fracturing the matrix of coloniality.