Colex Editorial has recently released the collective work titled "Learning Law Through Cinema. 45 Faculty Comments on Films, Series, and Documentaries on Contemporary Legal Institutions and Conflicts". This publication was directed by Constitutional Law professor Daniel López Rubio, with coordination from Sergio Siverio Luis, Andrea Martín Meneses, and Eduardo Pimentel González, all faculty members at the Faculty of Law of the University of La Laguna (ULL).
This work is the outcome of the Educational Innovation and Transfer Project "Learning Law Through Cinema: From Theory to Practice", funded by the ULL's Vice-Rectorate for Teaching for the academic years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. The project has been implemented at the Faculty of Law for the Law and Labor Relations Degree programs.
The book compiles legal commentaries on essential cinematic works for learning Law, prepared by teaching and research staff from various legal disciplines. Contributors include Daniel López Rubio, Andrea Martín Meneses, Eduardo Pimentel González, Irene Aznar Sánchez-Parodi, Carlos Trincado Castán, Claudia Hernández López, Sergio Siverio Luis, Ignacio Caballero García, Ana Afonso Bellod, and Lucas Sebastián de Erice Aranda.
The fact sheets collected in this volume aim to provide a guide for legal reflection on over forty audiovisual works. They are made available to students, interested citizens, and even faculty from other universities for classroom use. Each fact sheet frames the presented issue, extracts and situates the main questions, and offers a legal commentary by specialized faculty.
The objective of this book and its accompanying innovation project is to offer students who engage with these films, series, and documentaries support for a better understanding of the work and to connect it with disciplines studied in their Degree. Furthermore, as stated in the book's presentation, cinema "is not just a vehicle for narrating a story, in this case a legal one, but is an art in itself". Therefore, "it is considered an element capable of broadening the spirit and expanding our sensitivity towards the world around us". In a time marked by fragmented attention and accelerated consumption of stimuli, enjoying a cinematic work can make us more attentive to human complexity and more receptive to beauty and conflict."
The publication of this work was made possible through funding granted by the Faculty of Law and the "Gumersindo Trujillo" Chair of Autonomous and Constitutional Studies at the University of La Laguna.
