Los Diálogos Imposibles: Acerca de Enlace con Escuelas Públicas

Abstract

This short article discusses the University of Puerto Rico Law School‘s Enlace con Escuelas Públicas initiative, which aims to diversify the legal profession by offering workshops on various aspects of legal theory and practice to high school students of the island‘s public education system. In particular, the article offers a critical account of writer Aníbal Santana Merced‘s visit to one of the workshops given on the topic of prisoners‘ rights, in order to explore the emancipatory nature of the workshop and the initiative as a whole. It is argued here that Enlace con Escuelas Públicas provided a space for discursive and affective ties to be developed between the figure of the inmate and the students of the public school system.