<p>Magister en Derecho Penal y Derecho Procesal Penal. Profesor de Derecho Penal y Derecho Procesal Penal de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito.</p>
This paper seeks to define that although common law and continental European law are different -as a whole- beginning from their sources of knowledge and production (which keeps them separated), it is possible to find an acceptable parity between them which, without merging them, sacrificing justice or some fundamental right, allows for an adequate legal parallelism as a balancing point between both systems and for a link between substantive law and procedural law, where all legal norms are under the same hierarchical level as a response and behavioral guide for judicial officers of a State of rights.
