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The Digital Legal Landscape in South America: Government Transparency and Access to Information† ††

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Teresa Miguel
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The governments of ten South American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela) vary widely in the quantity and quality of free legal information each offers to its citizens. Each country has made a significant effort in providing basic legal texts, such as codes, laws and decrees, in a systematic, searchable, and reliable database. Jurisprudence of the courts, whose significance varies widely among these countries steeped in the civil law tradition, is often less accessible. Some countries have more means and better infrastructure than others which, naturally, is reflected in the quality of the databases, search engines, and archives.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 40 , Issue 1-2 , Spring-Summer 2012 , pp. 39 - 133
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Copyright © 2012 by the International Association of Law Libraries. 

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1 http://gregmichener.com/Dissertation.html. Specifically, see http://gregmichener.com/-gregmichener.com–CHAPTER 4–Explaining the Surrender of Secrecy Across Latin America.pdf. See also, Access to Information Laws: Overview and Statutory Goals: http://right2info.org/access-to-information-laws.Google Scholar

2 http://foreignlawguide.com/ip/flg/ (subscription database)Google Scholar

3 http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html# (open-access)Google Scholar