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Introduction to the Legal System Ursula Cristina Basset, ed., Introduction to the Law of Argentina (Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International B.V., The Netherlands, 2018). Covers sources and history, constitutional law, administrative law, law of the persons, legal persons, family law, contract law, law of property, inheritance law, criminal law, procedural law, and private international law. A detailed bibliography follows each chapter. Research Guides Gloria Orrego Hoyos, Update: A Research Guide to the Argentine Legal System (2022), https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Argentina1.html. Harvard Law Library, Argentinian Legal Research (2024), https://guides.library.harvard.edu/law/argentina. Law Library of Congress, Guide to Law Online: Argentina, http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/nations/argentina.php. Recommended Resources There is no single official, reliable source for Argentine court reporting. The range and scope of publication are quite large since Argentina is a very large country with numerous courts, any of which is subject to having its decisions reported and cited. These free sources are recommended: [Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation] Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación (CSJN). It provides all the case law from the Court from 1863 to present. Also includes institutional agreements regarding judicial power, judicial resolutions, and some references to jurisprudence from Inter-American Human Rights Court. https://sj.csjn.gov.ar/sj/. Spanish. [Legal Information Center] Centro de Información Judicial (CIJ) is a body created by the Supreme Court. It publishes judgments, resolutions, and decisions of the Court and other tribunals from different jurisdictions. Coverage is from 2008 to present. https://www.cij.gov.ar/sentencias.html. Spanish. The Centro de Información Judicial developed “CIJ TV” in 2011. It aims to broadcast live trials, public hearings, and institutional events. In 2016, it also incorporated the Judicial Open Government that promotes transparency, access to information and citizen participation, and incorporated the communication policy in a broader framework of institutional development from 2018. [Legislative and Documentary Information] Información Legislativa y Documental (INFOLEG) is a legislative database of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation. InfoLeg contains digital documents such as laws, decrees, administrative decisions, resolutions, dispositions, and any act that in itself establishes its mandatory publication in the first section of the Official Gazette of the Argentine Republic. http://www.infoleg.gob.ar/. Spanish. [Argentine Legal Information System] Sistema Argentino de Información Jurídica (SAIJ), also provided by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. It provides legal information to magistrates, lawyers, teachers, students and the community in general. It contains: all national laws enacted since 1853, international treaties ratified by national laws, decrees, and national and provincial jurisprudence. SAIJ also contains articles of doctrine made by professors, researchers, and specialized authors from all branches of Law. http://www.saij.gob.ar/home. Spanish. It also offers a Thesaurus of legal controlled subjects from Argentinian Law (https://datos.gob.ar/dataset/justicia-tesauro-saij-derecho-argentino). Spanish. Commercial Databases ELDIAL: https://www.eldial.com/. Spanish. Lejister (from IJ Editores): https://ar.lejister.com/. Spanish. ERREIUS: https://www.erreius.com/. Spanish. La Ley (Thomson Reuters) https://www.checkpoint.laleyonline.com.ar/. Spanish. vLex - has quite good coverage of Argentine legal material in an organized, easy to locate, searching system. They have a number of codes and Boletines from the federal legislature and provinces, as well as the decisions of the courts that are available from the various individual federal and provincial court websites. vLex allows users to search across courts or focus on one or more. There are also a growing number of law reviews and social science journals available. There are no official pdfs; all are html or vLex generated pdfs. https://vlex.com/. Spanish. National Codes (Spanish) Código Civil y Comercial Código Penal – Penal Code Código Procesal Civil y Comercial – Civil and Commerce Procedimental Code Código Procesal Penal – Penal Process Code Código de Justicia Militar - Military Justice Code Código Aduanero – Customs Code Código Aeronáutico – Aeronautics Code Código de Mineria - Mining Code Código Alimentario Argentino (Ley 18284 Poder Ejecutivo Nacional, 7/18/1969) – Argentinian Food Code Código de Ética Pública – Public Ethics Codes Código Electoral Nacional – National Electoral Code National codes are also available on the SAIJ (Ministry of Justice and Human Rights) website, http://www.saij.gob.ar/buscador/codigos. Legal Publishers The most well-known editorial houses of legal publications and codes are: Abeledo Perrot Zavalia LexisNexis Heliasta La Ley (by Thomson Reuters) LEGISLaw (El banco Juridico Argentino) IJ Editores ElDial Eudeba Errepar/ Erreius SAIJ Rubinzal-Culzoni Astrea
Some of Togo’s laws are conveniently, and freely, available online at the following sites: http://legitogo.gouv.tg/home, https://jo.gouv.tg/, and https://juriafrique.com/?s=togo. These are all French-language websites. If there is a search function available, it will be a very simple search function. Researchers can do keyword searches but will not get the same kind of accuracy in their results that they may expect from commercial databases like Westlaw or Lexis. Sometimes, the results are superseded. Most acts cited in the Foreign Law Guide subject entries are from one of these three sites. Droit Afrique offers Togo documentation and links to other Togolese websites here: http://www.droit-afrique.com/pays/togo/. This is another French-language website. For case law research, some Supreme Court cases can be found at: https://juricaf.org/recherche/+/facet_pays:Togo. This website is in French. Legal research regarding Togo can be difficult because it involves different legal systems. We recommend starting with a research guide or law review article like the following: Library of Congress, “Togo (January 3, 2019),” https://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/nations/togo.php. Martial Akakpo & Emmanuel Mamlan, “Présentation Générale de l’Environnement Juridique Togolais (July/August 2017),” https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Togo1.html. Note that this is an entry in French. For specific topics in legal research on Togo, a secondary source like a treatise or legal encyclopedia can be helpful: Tom Lansford, “Togo,” in Political Handbook of the World 2016-2017 (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, Sage Publications, 2017). Antonio David & Michal Andrle, “As you sow so shall you reap: public investment surges, growth, and debt sustainability in Togo,” IMF Working Papers, WP/12/127 (2012). Benjamin Lawrance, Locality, Mobility, and “Nation”: Periurban Colonialism in Togo’s Eweland, 1900-1960 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007).