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Sumary
The analysis of controversies from the optics of the legal discourse, as a neutral and universal
tool, can cause the unawareness of the plurality of topics that merge in a situation and the search
for a solution that ignores the social realities of the conflict, in a way that leaves out
additional mechanisms to vindicate rights, apart from the legal methods. This article presents how
three Environmental Law and property rights controversies in Puerto Rico were simplified by the
juridification of complex conflicts to the point of reducing them to the question of whether a
single action was legal or illegal. The piece urges the persons who manage the legal discourse to
recognize when it is appropriate to use it and when the field should be left open for other
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