Abstract

BAYONA ARISTIZABAL, Diana Maite  and  MILLA, Antonio. The Elites of Legal Thought in Colombia: Ruptures in the Knowledge of Law. Novum Jus [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.3, pp.266-300.  Epub Mar 15, 2024. ISSN 1692-6013.  https://doi.org/10.14718/novumjus.2023.17.3.10.

The article examines the main characteristics of Colombian legal thought, analysing the so-called legal elites. With this goal, the conditions and contexts of the contemporary production of national legal knowledge are also analysed. The elites were detected by using criteria to determine the authors and researchers with greater recognition and influence among readers (primarily law students, jurists and specialized researchers. These elites were then identified using the AD Scientific Index - Colombia Scientist Law, that is, the 2023 ranking of legal scholars in the country, combined with information extracted from the Scopus database, which allowed the construction of a second ranking. The results, obtained by applying an analytical method, made it possible to establish that legal sociology dominates the knowledge of law, combined with dogmatics, as well as some innovative critical theories, which were completely foreign to law schools a few years ago. It was also found that these elites have similar ethnicity, gender, geolocation, undergraduate and graduate education, social stratification, and employment status.

Keywords : Legal knowledge; legal elites; legal profession; legal research; legal change.

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