This booklet exposes a minimum comprehensive horizon of the set of theoretical perspectives and the conceptual corpus that make up the study of the culture of legality; Therefore, it constitutes a basic introductory text that seeks to serve as reference and study material for those interested in the culture of legality. The content of the text addresses, succinctly, the various study orientations around culture and its relationship with the social and legal sciences; Subsequently, a review of the concepts of political culture, civic culture, legal culture and legal culture is presented, an essential issue to understand and delimit the concept of culture of legality; Next, the principle of legality and the notions of legitimacy and legality, structural dimensions of the culture of legality, are analysed and, at the end, the elements that make up a definition of culture of legality are addressed and its relationship with the discourse of human rights is highlighted.
Finally, the booklet “Culture of legality and human rights” aims to contribute to the theoretical and conceptual debate on the culture of legality, based on a balance of the diverse and complex academic positions on the subject and its necessary connection with the respect and the protection of human rights.