International Team Project: Argentina - Research Checklist

Introduction

Prepared for International Team Project: Argentina at Northwestern University School of Law, Spring 2009, by Irene Berkey, Foreign and International Law Librarian.

Note: The law library does not collect materials on Latin American countries in vernacular languages. Materials in this checklist are primarily in English, unless otherwise noted.

General Country Information

Governmental web sites

Other Web Sites

Laws and Legal System

Introductions, research guides, and digest

  • “Argentina” chapter in Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia (2002), vol. 1 pages 64-70. I,REF K 48 .L44 2002
  • A Research Guide to the Argentine Legal System By Dr. Gisela Monge Roffarello, Emilse Monge Roffarello, Dr. Ezequiel Trajtenberg and Prof. Eng. Julio O. Trajtenberg (GlobaLex, 2008).
  • Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World Must be used within NU School of Law buildings by Thomas Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores. For each country, background on the legal system and legal publication, citations to laws on particular topics and to English language translations.
  • Argentina Law Digest, in Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest. Detailed summary of various areas of law, especially useful for company, corporate, and tax law. LexisNexis Available from anywhere to members of the NU School of Law community Legal > Find Laws by Country or Region > Search International Law Digests > Martindale-Hubbell® Law Digest – South American Law Digests.

Portals to legal resources  (interface in English; resources mostly in Spanish)

Portals to legal resources (interface and resources in Spanish)

Constitution

  • The Constitutions of the Argentine Nation. Constitutions of the Countries of the World , vol. 3 (loose-leaf) I,MON K 3157 .A2B58 1971- Also available electronically Must be used within NU School of Law buildings (Search for " Argentina" in "Location" box.) !994 Constitution in English. Also “Introductory Note: Constitutional History and Political Background.”
  • Argentine Constitutions Political Database of the Americas, Georgetown University. The 1853 Constitution with the 1860, 1866, 1898 and 1957 reforms, in Spanish, and the 1994 Constitution, in English and Spanish.
  • Constitution of the Argentine Nation Senado web site. In English.
  • Argentina Constitution International Constitutional Law (ICL), University of Bern, Switzerland. As amended through 1994. In English.
  • Constitutiones Provinciales and Constituciones del Mundo InfoLEG: Información Legislativa (governmental web site). Includes debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1994. In Spanish.

Legislation

Courts and Jurisprudence

Treaties and Agreements - Selected Sources

Finding Books:

Finding Articles:

  • Hints: Many subject areas are relevant-- not just law. | Use indexes to identify relevant articles. | " Advanced search " often easier than "basic search." | Find relevant citation, then click on " subject headings " or " descriptors " to find more. | " Find it at NU " button often leads to electronic full text. | NUcat " journal title" search leads to print and/or electronic full text.
  • Find Legal Articles (mostly from U.S. and Anglo-American journals, including foreign and international law topics)
  • Finding Articles and Papers on Foreign and Comparative Law (for articles on law of countries other than the U.S. and comparative law methodology, from journals published both in the U.S. and abroad)
  • Finding Articles and Papers on International Law (for public and private international law)
  • Find Non-Law Articles (for subjects in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences)

Finding Dissertations

Finding Statistics

News: General, Legal, and Business

Note that both Lexis and Westlaw allow you to create and save a search, to be run on a periodic basis, such as daily or weekly. For links to tutorials, see the Research Alerts page of the library's web site. Always check scope notes (click on information icon) for dates of coverage. Not all publications are current.

Many organizations make it possible to monitor news by means of an RSS/XML ("Really Simple Syndication") feed. For information of setting up RSS feeds, see the Research Alerts: RSS Feeds section of the library's web site.

  • LexisNexis: (News & Business Tab > Country & Region (excluding U.S.) > Argentina > News
    Note: La Nación coverage ends 2007.
  • Westlaw:
    • Business & News tab > [Global News] Latin America News (LATNEWS)
    • Global News tab > [ South America] >
    • International/Worldwide Materials > South America > Individual Country Materials > Argentina > Business & News
  • Argentina : Media and Communications links Portals to the World, Library of Congress.
  • World News Connection Available from anywhere to all members of the Northwestern University community . Provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC)
  • Bloomberg.com: Latin America Business news. In English.

International Business Resources

International Organizations

Regional Organizations

Worldwide Organizations

Additional Resources for Selected Topics

Administration of Justice

Agricultural Resources

Business and Financial Information

Education

  • ERIC Available from anywhere to members of the Northwestern Law community Citations to articles and reports on education.

Church and State

Human Rights

Politics and Government

  • International Political Science Abstracts Available from anywhere to all members of the Northwestern University community. Citations and abstracts to English and non-English language periodicals throughout the world. Covers political science, public law, international law, and international relations.
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Available from anywhere to all members of the Northwestern University community. Citations with abstract from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.

Sports Law

Technology

Women's and Children's Issues

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