The legal profession is in the process of adapting to a globalized world that is increasingly international. This globalization of law goes hand in hand with the internationalization of the economy and politics. The answer is the internationalization of law. Today we can see how legal matters, clients, conflict, court, knowledge, institutional life and therefore internationalize the occupation. All this leads us to the lawyer should know integration processes occurring mainly for economic reasons such as the European Union and the Andean Community of Nations, but these processes have also led to the internal rules are changed based on the decisions of international tribunals, in this context, counsel should handle international law and how we engage national law these decisions at the supranational level. To achieve this goal the professional law must handle not only theoretical knowledg...

The starting point of this work is the concept of Law since from here arises the fundamental aspect to be developed. Few etymological analyzes suggest as much as that of the word Law. Fernández Galiano attributes four meanings to the word Law: as a norm or set of norms in force (objective meaning); as a power attributed to a subject to do, not do or demand something (subjective right); ideal of justice or its negation (just) and as human knowledge applied to reality (law as science).

Entrando al tema central, “el positivismo surgió como lógica reacción contra las abstracciones y vaguedades del iusnaturalismo decadente” 163. Es una escuela filosófica que defiende al conocimiento científico como el conocimiento auténtico. El positivismo surge en Francia a inicios del Siglo XIX gracias a Augusto Comte y a Jhon Stuart Mill y es una tesis que defiende la exclusividad del Derecho Positivo, rechaza toda idea de un derecho natural, ya que sus principios del derecho no surgen de la naturaleza, sino que están implícitos en la ciencia