Revolution in the balance : law and society in contemporary Cuba / Debra Evenson.
1994
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Author
Title
Revolution in the balance : law and society in contemporary Cuba / Debra Evenson.
Published
Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
Call Number
Cu 300 Ev23 1994
ISBN
0813384664 (alk. paper)
0813321468 (pbk.)
0813321468 (pbk.)
Description
xiii, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)29467118
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
1
Transformation to Socialism
7
A Brief Legal History
8
The First Years
11
Elaborating a Socialist Legal Order
13
Socialist Legality
14
2
Democracy and Rights
21
The Cuban Socialist Constitutions
21
Socialist Democracy
24
Rights and Duties of Citizens
30
3
Development of the Legal Profession and the Practice of Law
41
The Bufetes Colectivos
43
Socialist Legality and the Practice of Law
47
The ONBC in the 1980s
49
Practice in a Bufete Today
51
Legal Advisors to State Institutions and Enterprises
53
Legal Education
54
The National Union of Cuban Jurists
57
4
The Judicial System
65
The Evolution of the Current Court System
65
Reform of the Judicial System
71
The Courts in the 1990s
73
The Judiciary
75
Judicial Review
78
The Fiscalia (Procuracy)
80
5
Law and Equality
87
Women and the Law
88
Racial Equality
108
6
Family Law
123
The Pre-Evolutionary Family
124
The 1975 Family Code
126
Family Planning
138
Impact of the Family Code
139
7
Criminal Justice
145
Substantive Criminal Law
147
Criminal Procedure
160
Prisons
166
8
Private Property
177
Housing
178
Abandoned Property
185
Inheritance of Personal Property
187
Agricultural Property
188
Property of Mass, Social and Religious Organizations
194
9
Economic Regulation
201
Socialist Contract Law and State Arbitration
205
The New Economic Courts
210
"Mixed" Enterprises
211
About the Book and Author
219
Index
221