The primary task or purpose of legal science is to conceptualize and explain the essence of law and its essential properties as well as its social function and purpose within society, which is understood as a social phenomenon that goes beyond what is positive or normatively prescribed, in interest because it is the same order of mind that prompts us to adhere to certain rules, To maintain conscience and order.
Let us remember that law is a systematic set of norms that are necessary and inevitable in society to maintain a just and equitable social order so that there is no discontent among citizens, and this series of norms is issued on the basis of the reasonableness of the orientation toward regulating behavior. , constructed in harmony with the order of reason and the common good, so as to have a social purpose with humanity: the general well-being of those who inhabit a given society.
To better understand the relationship between legal sciences, humanities and advocacy, I will begin by saying, based on my experience, that law should organize society in a charitable or humanitarian way, and should be at the service of society, since the exercise of right involves advocacy or love towards justice, understood as The spirit of cooperation and the desire to help towards society, especially if it concerns vulnerable people who need legal care as a priority. For this reason, legal sciences are closely linked to the social or human function because they seek, among other things, to solve social problems, which implies that they should be directed to men who adapt to the existing system of rules or behavior or find a solution. The way to achieve this is for a person to adapt to the system of standards set by the civic education department in public or private institutions. Therefore, he must technically search for some human assumptions that allow him to confront the person as a person, that is, “as a set of relationships.” Where a man finds himself with other men or with the things surrounding him.
In addition to the above, many writers in the field of law, such as Dr. Edgar Córdoba, have put forward the idea that in today’s world it is a real challenge to intertwine the human part with the science of law, which means that thanks to the current health crisis and the subsequent economic situation, enormous challenges have been presented to the science of law. Which must be faced through legal research, essentially searching for new knowledge and more practical and wise methodologies that solve the challenges represented by the panorama at this time in which we live in the extraordinary circumstances stipulated in jurisprudence and law.
In this arrangement of ideas, we lawyers face the challenge of constantly nourishing ourselves with humanitarian tools that allow us to commit to the human being himself, in defense of his dignity, his freedom and other unnamed rights that form part of the human rights complex. stipulated in international agreements and treaties.
This column focuses on this topic, confronting the culture of human rights, which is the primary means of training lawyers who are literate in the rule, in the interpretation of the rule, and most importantly: the humanity, which we so desperately need.
In short, legal humanism requires lawyers’ clear call for interpretation, bearing in mind that law must be guided by a radical interpretive or interpretive orientation, allowing us to overcome the abstract legal concept that existed around it. Its basis is the idea that natural law or natural laws (always for the common good) are superior to positive law or similar, human-created laws.
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