Orality: Its repercussion for the Juridical Science and the teaching of Law

The oral system, defended by contemporary trends, provides laudable benefits for the administration of justice and, therefore, for the teaching of Law. The present study on orality is the result of a pedagogical intervention at the University of Pinar del Rio with the third, fourth and fifth level students of the Law degree, during the period 2017-2019, in Cuba. The objective of the article is to argue the repercussion of orality for juridical science and for the teaching of Law in the university environment. The research is qualitative and uses socio-legal research methodology, using theoretical and empirical methods such as historical-legal, comparative-legal, analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction, content analysis, scientific observation and group interview. The integration of the methods and the approach of their theoretical foundations allowed to obtain as main results: the determination of orality as a general juridical principle for Procedural Law and the proposal of role plays of oral trials as problem teaching methods to teach litigation. The study carried out shows good practices validated when developing the simulation of three oral trials represented by students of the Law studies at the University of Pinar del Rio.