Application, development and reform of Law 5/2011 of Social Economy. A weak right?

Abstract

The entry into force of Law 5/2011, of Social Economy, should have contributed to facilitate some scientific-legal elaboration around a possible Law of the Social Economy. However, the paucity of its text, its lack of application, the absolute absence of regulatory development and an erroneous reform, preclude such a claim. The inconsistent technical construction of this Law, its radical inapplicability, the lack of minimum regulatory development and a very debatable reform shape it in terms of inefficiency, approaching a type of legal production lacking practical effects. The confusion of normative ranges, the protracted and confused process of delegitimation to which it is subjected, the material and indeterminacy of sources, the legal insecurity that all this propitiates and, above all, its flagrant and harmful non-fulfillment, place it at the very edge of the so-called " Soft law "and / or" imperfect law ", where the most determining characteristics of the so-called" force of law "disappear. The Social Economy deserves another legal treatment that allows to consolidate starting points that encourage the construction of a systematic Social Economy Law, based on the homologation of referential concepts and allows to culminate a holistic construction really necessary.