This subject is the first approach of the student to legal phenomenon from a more abstract and philosophical point of view than the one used in the typical subjects of the legal dogmatic.
The programme is as follows

Lesson 1.- The concept of Law
A.- Problems about the concept of law
B.- Validity, efficacy and Justice

Lesson 2.- Law as a social and cultural phenomenon and as a form of social organization
A.- Law and social control
B.- Law and social change

Lesson 3.- Law and other normative systems
A.- Rules of social treatment and their description
B.- Law and Morals
C.- Public ethics and private ethics

Lesson 4.- Law and Force
A.- Law, force and Power
B.- The rule of law

Lesson 5.- The Legal norm
A.- Law and Language. Functions of language.
B.- Types of norms. The legal norm as a prescriptive clause. Elements of prescriptions
C.- Classification of legal norms.

Lección 6.- The legal system
A.- The idea of legal system.
B.- The features of the legal system

Lesson 7.- Law production.
A.- Normative production
B.- . Legal law and judicial law
C.- Other ways of legal production.

Lesson 8.- Interpretation and implementation of law
A.- Interpretation and implementation of law.
B.- Interpretation criteria.
C.- Constitutional interpretation.
D.- Legal argumentation.