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MOLINA, Marcela Sandra. Institutional and academic autonomy of national universities conceptual evolution in argentinian legislation and common law. Rev. iberoam. educ. super [online]. 2014, vol.5, n.13, pp.66-89. ISSN 2007-2872.

In this paper I analyze the concept of autonomy consecrated in the constitution and derived regulatory framework set forth in Law 24521, which is the result of Argentina's' historical evolution of university institutions. A historical review of the development of national universities shows a recurrent involvement of the national government in their institutional and academic organization, indeed contravening the proclaimed "academic and institutional autonomy" promulgated in the laws. This historical background accounts for the need to explicitly recognize university autonomy in the National Constitution (NC). Based on this regulatory framework, the legal meaning of this institutional guarantee has been outlined. I have carried out an analysis of subsequent higher education laws established by the National Congress in view of the attributions so conferred by the NC, with the purpose of understanding the constitutional and infra-constitutional frameworks of national universities.

Palavras-chave : autonomy; universities; legislature; historical evolution; political constitution; Argentina.