THE POTENTIALITIES OF THE LINKS BETWEEN LEGAL OBSERVATORIES AND UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Abstract

The Organization of American States (OAS), in 2015, published the book called: Observatories of Public Policies in the Americas, a guide for its design and implementation in our public administrations (Organization of American States, 2015). Said manual highlights the importance in the creation of legal observatories for the transmission of knowledge, through the dissemination of studies, statistics and publications that achieve the unification of cases and the exchange of experiences, with the purpose of generating in the viewer a vision critical and analytical of the reality that makes him a protagonist, contributing to society in the execution of ideas and projects, duly supported by the analyzes that one or more observatories have contributed.
In this sense, it constitutes a challenge, typical for these times, of digital transformation and of access to massive information, to potentiate the figure of legal observatories in universities, cradles of scientific research. For this reason, this article has the substantial purpose of explaining the main characteristics of the existing observatories in national and international universities and justifying the relevance for academia, both in the strengthening of research and in the improvement of teaching and education of citizens.
The methodology used in this research work is of a qualitative approach with explanatory character, since it tries to offer a look at the different current legal observatories to discover the inherent elements and principles that guide these centers of knowledge. In this way, it will be achieved, from the deductive method, prioritizing the need to establish a link between legal observatories and universities in the paradigm of scientific-academic research.