Estudio socio - jurídico de los Abogados en libre ejercicio profesional. El caso ecuatoriano.

Abstract

In the context of a puzzle project, the research "Socio-Legal Study of Lawyers in Free Professional Practice. The Ecuadorian case" refers to a problem with six variables: socioeconomic level, quality of higher legal education, paradigms of legal education, political participation, fields of professional practice and constitutional culture. The study is bibliographical, field, descriptive and transversal, with quantitative, qualitative and triangulation analysis. The theoretical framework was constructed with access to bibliographic sources. The sample consisted of forty-five lawyers and a guild leader, whom a survey was applied. The results indicate that this profession is stratified, the quality and the paradigm of Law Careers are in the process of transition, prevailing legal positivism, of a formal and inquisitive type and with a tendency towards innovation. The fields of professional practice are the classics (civil, criminal, labor, administrative law) and the new fields are constitutional, environmental and inclusion law. The discourse of human rights is related to the validity of the constitution and the neo-constitutional approach