General characteristics of legal norms
Abstract
This treatise brings together fundamental notions of Law built throughout a lifetime of professional practice and academic
study by its author, Dr. Eduardo Umaña Luna (RIP). This posthumous publication becomes not only a necessary tribute for
those who with their example and virtue defended the principles of law in legal practice, but also an essential object of study
for current generations, since not only its fundamental concepts are still valid, but also that the changes in the legal structures
of the country allow with this study to make a historical comparison between the current reality and that of that time. The
article studies the meanings and applications of law, justice and jurisprudence, as well as legality and illegality, natural law,
historicism and positive law and the various schools formed around these postulates.
Keywords
Law, justice, jurisprudence, natural law, historicism, positive law.
Author Biography
Eduardo Umaña Luna
(1923 - 2008) From 1953 until his death he was professor of sociology and law at the National University,
he was one of the most important intellectuals and humanists in the country. His keynote speeches on Rights
Humans have left an indelible mark on the Colombian academy.
References
- Hugo Grocio
- Art. 170 de la Const. Nal.