Getafe, España, January 16, 2018.- Within a short research internship, Dr. Francisco M. Mora Sifuentes, a professor of the Department of Law of the University of Guanajuato (UG) gave the Seminar "El problema del método en el Derecho" organized by the Institute of Human Rights "Bartolomé de las Casas" of Madrid's University Carlos III.

The seminar had the objective to discuss a work document that Dr. Mora is writing for the upcoming publication of a book in legal methodology and research. The seminar helped, as well, to contribute to the internationalization that from the Department of Law and from the Division of Law, Politics and Government are promoted by Dr. Leandro Astrain Bañuelos and Dr. Eduardo Pérez Alonso, respectively.

At the academic event were postgraduate students from different nationalities, among them Colombia, Spain, Mexico and Chile, from the University Carlos III, as well as other professors.

While welcoming the seminar, Dr. Francisco Javier Ansuátegui Roig, a scholar of the Philosophy of Law at the University Carlos III mentioned that one of the things about Dr. Mora is "his great intellectual curiosity for all the relevant topics of theory and philosophy of Law in a wide sense."

Dr. Mora explained that the work document inserts in a wider research line he is developing, about legal theory and philosophy. He began by pointing out the relative developments to the scientific method to problematize the distinction between natural and social sciences, fundamental in his judgment, to understand the epistemological statute of Law.

Then he referred to the most common definitions of the object called "Law" as well as the polemic emerged from their center. In his conclusions, he suggested that the analysis of specialized literature turns out that there is one legal method but a methodological pluralism. The last part of the session was a debate animated by several questions from the audience.

At the seminar closing, Dr. Patricia Cuenca Gómez, a professor in the Philosophy of Law, thanked the speaker for the given seminar, as well as for his "will to submit his research progress to the critics". The latter, she said, "is something that, beyond our divergences, there is the core of the own researching activity."

Likewise, Dr. Francisco M. Mora Sifuentes expressed his gratitude with the audience, and particularly, with Dr. María del Carmen Barranco Avilés, for allowing him to make a short research internship.

Founded by Gregorio Peces-Barba Martínez, the Institute of Human Rights "Bartolomé de las Casas", is an international center whose guiding axis are the human rights and among its objectives are to divulge the values that are inherent, create reflection and dialogue, develop research, promote the diffusion of scientific works, as well as to strengthen their teaching. It is worldly renowned for developing a powerful research line in matter of rights for handicapped people. Currently is led by the Prof. Dr. José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes.

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