Revolution in the Balance: Law Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Transformation to Socialism	7
	A Brief Legal History	8
	The First Years	11
	Elaborating a Socialist Legal Order	13
	Socialist Legality	14
2	Democracy and Rights	21
	The Cuban Socialist Constitutions	21
	Socialist Democracy	24
	Rights and Duties of Citizens	30
3	Development of the Legal Profession and the Practice of Law	41
	The Bufetes Colectivos	43
	Socialist Legality and the Practice of Law	47
	The ONBC in the 1980s	49
	Practice in a Bufete Today	51
	Legal Advisors to State Institutions and Enterprises	53
	Legal Education	54
	The National Union of Cuban Jurists	57
4	The Judicial System	65
	The Evolution of the Current Court System	65
	Reform of the Judicial System	71
	The Courts in the 1990s	73
	The Judiciary	75
	Judicial Review	78
	The Fiscalia (Procuracy)	80
5	Law and Equality	87
	Women and the Law	88
	Racial Equality	108
6	Family Law	123
	The Pre-Evolutionary Family	124
	The 1975 Family Code	126
	Family Planning	138
	Impact of the Family Code	139
7	Criminal Justice	145
	Substantive Criminal Law	147
	Criminal Procedure	160
	Prisons	166
8	Private Property	177
	Housing	178
	Abandoned Property	185
	Inheritance of Personal Property	187
	Agricultural Property	188
	Property of Mass, Social and Religious Organizations	194
9	Economic Regulation	201
	Socialist Contract Law and State Arbitration	205
	The New Economic Courts	210
	"Mixed" Enterprises	211
	About the Book and Author	219
	Index	221