Although legal research has traditionally occupied a marginal place in the teaching curricula of Latin American law schools, there is a recent and growing trend aimed to reverse this phenomenon. In the context of these new developments, I propose the discussion of a series of topics that should be taken into account in order to include empirical legal research (ELR) into the teaching agendas of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of law faculties. I propose here that ELR is a form of legal education, which responds to a particular conception of law, and is aimed at satisfying certain purposes of the teaching of law. More concretely, I propose to discuss here that an agenda of education and promotion of legal research that incorporates ELR must, in turn, promote different ways of understanding the law, diverse modes of approaching law to other social science disciplines and plural view on research methods.