The decline of the Ecuadorian legal system in various instances of public and private institutions is part of a larger and generalized situation that involves all of us. What happens – in so many cases – in the executive, judicial, electoral and citizen participation functions is beyond the scope of law and ethics. The same thing happened with an even greater negative glow in the temporarily inactive Legislative function.

This decadence has a number of factors that contribute to its pervasive presence. The lack of jobs for so many people and the abject poverty that is spreading every day are in a broad social and economic scenario. Then, the dramatic insecurity that affects us socially, the ubiquitous corruption and the decline in the quality of life of the entire society. Every moment, in any area of ​​coexistence, can be analyzed in relation to what we are now… a broken society. All of us, in one way or another, are responsible for what we have allowed, most of course through powerlessness, and by omission, because the solitary struggle of some in the fight against corruption and crime is not enough. Civic duty challenges us to do more out of our shared civic responsibility.

And there are those others, few in number, organized for crimes. Capable of everything. Planners and executors of attacks, kidnappings, extortion, murders and other corrupt acts. Those who are now so strong that they dominate and subjugate us, that they imprison us in our fear and powerlessness.

On this occasion, I am writing about one of the areas that is directly related to legality and its role in current national circumstances. As for the role of law schools where the moral duty of the rules, their interpretation and application to each case is also studied or should be studied in order to guarantee a peaceful social life.

I believe that the goals of the current curricula are aimed at training persons who apply the law. Professionals who analyze the facts with which they are related from the legal text and apply it to solve them. The understanding of the relationship between the norm and justice, although it is discussed, needs to be addressed in a much deeper way, which is the goal that is achieved by creating one’s own legal doctrine. Often this approach is put aside, because thinking and writing about the institutions that make up the legal system is considered almost a waste of time. This statement can be confirmed by analyzing the national doctrinal legal production and its influence on different legal bodies and the application of the law.

From the published doctrinal discussion, and not only from opinions in the media – which is the area of ​​greatest conceptual relevance – about the relevance of the institutions of criminal law, constitutional law and all other branches, one can discern their relationship with the judiciary and the correct adaptation of the norm to the social situation it regulates.

Legal doctrine must support the creation and application of law. (OR)