GALLARDO, Yurixhi. Are Legal Ethics an Essential Element of the Lawyer Professional Identity? Students´ Remarks. []. , 28, 2, pp.284-309. ISSN 0120-8942.  https://doi.org/10.5294/dika.2019.28.2.3.

The professional performance of lawyers requires thinking about how their identity develops, particularly in the years of university training. This work shows the link between legal ethics and professional identity. In addition, it discusses the assessment of final year students of the law degree in a university of Mexico to ethics as professional competence. The work is divided into three sections: the first, explains what is meant by professional identity and how it is developed in law schools in Mexico; The second part presents ethics as a professional competence; Finally, it analyzes the results of a study among students of the final year of a law degree in the university above mentioned. The study shows that professional ethics is a constituent element of professional identity. It addresses ethics as professional competence from three different perspectives. On the other hand, it identifies that the students make a high valuation of the ethics in front of other professional competences.

: Professional competence; legal education; legal ethics; professional ethics; professional formation; professional identity.

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