Producing Legality: Law and Socialism in Cuba

Producing Legality provides a window into the official construction of socialist legality in Cuba and the dissemination of this legal consciousness throughout the country. It links abstract theories of lawmaking and the state with the specific dilemmas confronting individual policymakers to detail the inner workings of the Cuban legal order.

Part I Context and Theoretical Framework: 1. The Social Context - Daily Life in Cuba, 1985-1990 2. The Form and Content of Legality - Integrating Structure and Ideology. Part II Strategies for Producing Legality: 3. Reaching a Consensus - The Process of Law Creation 4. Producing Jurists - Legal Education in Cuba 5. Legal Adaptions from Abroad. Part III The Daily Production and Reproduction of Legality: 6. Lay Judges - "Bi-directionaly Trasmitters" of Legality 7. Dispute Resolution in the Workplace 8. Conclusions Epilogue.