The legal phenomenon is an eminently social phenomenon.

The nature and essence of the professional work of the jurist and the accumulated experience provide the privileged situation of being able to specify with extraordinary clarity the field of action or work of the jurist.

In general terms, it can be said that the jurist’s profession is aimed at working on the country’s legal and political system, in the direction of integrating, applying, developing, perfecting and diversifying it, in order to achieve not only social justice, but also individual justice for citizens, members of the broad mosaic of Cuban civil society, who, according to their claims, request effective judicial protection from the country’s courts of justice.

The legal profession is not disputed in any of its technical-professional fields of activity by other professionals, but this does not prevent reaching important precisions on the limits and scope of that field of work or professional action, especially because around its scientific and political definition are centered cardinal political and scientific problems that affect the philosophy of law and the political organization of society, the so-called rule of law, well named at present as a state of conscience of legality.

Thus, when speaking of the legal system as the object of work of the legal professional, it is not possible to limit oneself to the positive normative system, as did the bourgeois theoreticians in their efforts to classify universal legal systems. In fact, the legal phenomenon encompasses three areas of expression: it is, of course, a normative system, but it is also an axiological system, a normative set that guides the essential values of a given society and expresses them deontologically, as a behavioral paradigm to which the social project in question seeks to elevate itself, and it is, finally, an eminently social phenomenon.

Written by  Dr.Osvaldo M Álvarez Torres.