Abstract

PEREZ VELIZ, Alie. The right to honor in Cuba. Foundations for its reform. Cuest. Const. [online]. 2016, n.35, pp.151-197. ISSN 1405-9193.

People's honor and human dignity have historically been considered by Legal Science as a fundamental right, subjective right of personality and legal property to be protected, depending on the branch of the legal system regulating it. The polysemy of the term has generated different approaches and sometimes contradictory, producing antinomies such as the postulation of the indispensability of subjective rights, constitutionally speaking, while criminal legislation provides for the complaint against the offender, like a form of exercise for the action of this nature, which is usually interpreted as tacit possibility of waiving this right. The diversity of approaches in the treatment of the right to honor within the system does not guarantee the systematic, so it requires supporting a proposal of reform that relies on regulatory unit, regulatory systematicity and functional integrity, as main principles or governing ideas of its legal regulation.

Keywords : right to honor; legal property; reform; regulatory unit.