Abstract

MULET MARTINEZ, Fabricio. The first Cuban Lecture of The History of Law. Notes for study. Rev. IUS [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.43, pp.245-268. ISSN 1870-2147.

This article deals with the General History Lecture of Spanish Law created at the University of Havana, at the end of the Nineteen Century, when Cuba was still under Spanish Colonial Rule. The addition of this subject obeyed, in the first place, to its addition in the University studies plans approved in the Iberian Peninsula, taught extensively on the island. This was due to a series of factors such as the modernization of University Education, the development of nationalist trends and the influence of the Historical School of Law. In this article we will analyze the particular conditions that led to the interest in Historical-Juridical Studies in Cuba, as well as the program of the abovemention subject and the work of the professors who held the chair of said lecture.

Keywords : History of Law; Cuba; Nineteenth Century; Legal Science.