Limiting ourselves to identifying the multiple problems facing the country is simple. To be content with complaining or promoting hatred in society, far from contributing, only aggravates the situation. It is time to assume a different, proactive and civic attitude. Send a message of encouragement in the midst of adverse circumstances. Change the shouting, the insult, the arrogance, the incitement to hatred and violence, for dialogue and empathy.
The delicate situation that the country is going through commits all of us to go beyond our daily functions or tasks, we cannot look aside, we must not wait for the State to deal with and solve the problems. We cannot limit ourselves to perform our tasks in a mechanical and routine manner, as if nothing were happening around us, we cannot continue to think only of “us”.
In the case of academia, those of us who are in charge of the delicate and crucial task of educating, in my case in Law, cannot abstract ourselves from what happens outside the classroom. For this reason, we have assumed with absolute responsibility, conviction and fortitude, the promotion of education in the Culture of Legality for Ecuador. A crusade that aims to propose, not to destroy.
Education in the Culture of Legality is a necessity, it is our main tool to contribute and transform reality. This is why the Universidad Espíritu Santo del Ecuador, not only has made the Culture of Legality its internal institutional policy, but also promotes it daily to society, as a policy of life. This, undoubtedly, is a determining differentiating factor.
Conferring degrees with responsibility, content and social commitment, beyond the area of training or expertise, based on the principles and values that are part of the Culture of Legality, should be the main task of universities, especially in the midst of the severe crisis of values facing the country.
We invite everyone to be part of this civic crusade, we do not need to occupy a public office to contribute to the country, each one of us, from our functions and mainly from our attitudes and daily habits, can and should be the main protagonists of change.
Director of the UEES Graduate School of Law.
Doctor in Law, PhD, Master in Law, mention in Constitutional Law. Superior Diploma in Law with mention in Constitutional Law. His career includes technical-constitutional advisory positions in public and private entities. Among them the former Constitutional Tribunal and Constitutional Court of Ecuador. Research professor at several international universities. Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Constitutional Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin. Founding member and member of the Executive Committee of ICON-S, Ecuador chapter. Board Member of BeLatin, Initiative of the University of California, Berkeley, for Latin America. Co-director of the Legal Thought and Constitutional Theory Series. Editorial Derecho Global - Mexico.
Author of books and articles in national and international indexed journals. His research interests focus on constitutional law, constitutional procedural law, comparative law, legal theory and legal transplants. Arbitrator of the Arbitration and Mediation Center UEES. Currently director and full time professor of the UEES Graduate School of Law.
Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES), began its academic activities in 1994 as a private, self-financed, non-profit institution. Its spirit of commitment and constant innovation are present in the quality of the service it offers to its community.
