LAW AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE AND LEGAL LANGUAGE AS AN OBSTACLE TO CITIZENSHIP

Abstract

This article analyzes Law from a social science perspective, highlighting its function of regulating human relations and promoting justice, but also evidencing the paradox between its social nature and the distance that legal language imposes on non-legal professionals. The technical language and excessive formalism, characteristic of current legal discourse, become a barrier to understanding the norms, hindering access to justice and fundamental rights, as well as the effective realization of citizenship. Through a theoretical and reflective approach, it seeks to demonstrate the importance of democratizing legal language as an instrument of social inclusion and strengthening citizen participation, whether through the disuse of formal oral and written norms, or through appropriate and easily understandable writing. It concludes that the simplification and clarity of legal discourse are essential conditions for the realization of the Democratic Rule of Law.