Abogacía 2025: A scenario to update legal issues

By Daily Pérez Guillén

Cuba’s economic scenario is being reconfigured and the Cuban legal profession, in the tenth edition of its international congress, put the spotlight on the country’s legislation.

On its closing day, the program of Abogacía 2025 included a lecture by Dr. Leonardo Pérez Gallardo, recently awarded with the National Law Prize, entitled “Matrimonial profiles of the de facto affective union: Between love and the shadows.”

Data collected in the last population census of 2012, indicated that 48% of the couple relationships in Cuba were consensual. Today they could exceed 50%, estimates the professor, who adds another variable to the phenomenon. In the current scenario of the country, where new forms of private management converge, it is necessary to insist on training on the Family Code in force as “recognizing matrimonial life is also a way to offer protection.”

This dissertation was followed by that of Dr. Caridad Valdés Díaz, who assessed the possibilities of participation and inclusion of persons with disabilities in accordance with the new legal regime and the amendments to the Civil Code.

The academic session was closed with the lecture “Challenges of a substantive penal reform: PRETICOR for the Cuban legal profession,” by Dr. Mayda Goite Pierre.

In the last three days, the 10th International Law Congress Abogacía 2025 opened spaces for the presentation and discussion of legal sciences issues, represented in all their diversity, under the central theme of the management and resolution of litigation.

With the purpose of “giving voice to the defense of rights,” more than 650 legal professionals from all over the country and ten representatives from other latitudes presented topics associated with current ethical and professional trends in this field.