ABSTRACT
In the civil law tradition, codes and regulations – written legislation – is the main source of law, so who gets to write the law is a major political issue. Judicial decisions, in the civil law tradition, are well known to be less significant than legislation. In the 1960s a wave of change shook the world, and of course universities, as part of the real world, were profoundly affected by it, even the ultra-traditional law schools. Clinics in Chile are therefore not a recent creation – as in many other civil law countries – but a direct product of the 1960s. At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the current century, a new wave of changes arrived in Chilean law schools. Students should be challenged to use the law, build norms and find out which norms have been built by others, especially in judicial decisions, in order to solve problems and in that way, learn the law.
