%0 Journal Article %T Apuntes sobre las opciones de cambio en la metodolog¨ªa de la ense£¿anza del derecho en M¨¦xico %A SERNA DE LA GARZA %A Jos¨¦ Mar¨ªa %J Bolet¨ªn mexicano de derecho comparado %D 2004 %I Universidad Nacional Aut¨®noma de M¨¦xico %X there are important reasons that justify a modification in the methodology used in legal education in m¨¦xico. social change that has occurred in the last decades and the so called legal transition, require an adjustment in the way in which the law is taught and learned. the traditional form of education has been based on the lecture, which has inhibited the use of new educative methodologies. in this article, the author examines the different options for a modification of legal education in m¨¦xico. in particular, he refers to active methods of education, which require both from professors and students, on the one hand, the critical examination of judicial decisions, and on the other hand, the solution of problems. the author's proposal, in the end, is that it is necessary to have a deeper knowledge of active methods of legal education, and to identify techniques to use them in the classroom, in order to combine them with the traditional method based on the lecture %K legal education %K case method %K problem method %K legal transition. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0041-86332004000400007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en