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The Use of Legal Encyclopedias as an Alternate Approach in Building Up Collections of Spanish and Latin American Legal Materials

A Review of Nueva Enciclopedia Jurídica. Barcelona, Spain. Francisco Seix, Ed Vols. I- (1950-).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Jorge L. Carro*
Affiliation:
Law Librarian, University of Cincinnati, USA

Extract

It is an indisputable fact that there are not many English or other translations of the primary legal sources of Spain and Latin America. The situation with secondary Hispanic language law sources is not much better. There are very few entries registered in the sections for Spain and Latin America in the AALS Law Books Recommended for Law Libraries that appear to be written in languages other than Spanish. The same situation is detected when browsing through the AALL Basic Latin American Legal Materials. Furthermore, of the hundreds of articles indexed in the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals that refer to the legal systems of Spain and Latin America only a few appear to be written in a foreign language.

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Copyright
Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1978 

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2 Aguilar, Juan F. and Armando, E. Gonzalez. Basic Latin American Legal Materials.(AALL Pub. Series No. 13). South Hackensack, N.J.: Rothman, 1977.Google Scholar

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7 See Carro, Book Review, 5 IJLL 371 (1977).Google Scholar

8 Fraga Iribarne. Ibid., p. 11.Google Scholar