Legal Research Guides by Course - Comparative Law: Law and Legal Process in Latin America

Course Description

An introduction to the Civil Law in general and to Latin American legal traditions and institutions in particular through an examination of selected contemporary judicial problems related to such matters as protection of constitutional guarantees, land reform, and chronic inflation. (2 credits)

Faculty Who Teach This Course

Robert S. Barker (Professor of Law)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:

Print Collection

KG1-KG999 Latin America (General)
KG3001-KG3999 Mexico and Central American (General)
KGA1-KGA9000 Belize
KGB1-KGB9000 Costa Rica
KGC1-KGC9800 El Salvador
KGD1-KGD9990 Guatemala
KGE1-KGE9990 Honduras
KGF1-KGF9900 Mexico
KGG1-KGG9800 Nicaragua
KGH1-KGH8000 Panama
KGH9001-KGH9499 Panama Canal Zone
KGJ1-KGJ999 West Indies - Caribbean Area (General)
KGJ7001-KGJ7499 Anguilla
KGK1-KGK499 Antigua and Barbuda
KGK1001-KGK1499 Aruba
KGL1-KGL499 Bahamas
KGL1001-KGL1499 Barbados
KGL2001-KGL2499 Bonaire
KGL3001-KGL3499 British Leeward Islands (General)
KGL4001-KGL4499 British Virgin Islands (General)
KGL5001-KGL5499 British West Indies (General)
KGL6001-KGL6499 British Windward Islands (General)
KGM0-KGM499 Cayman Islands
KGN1-KGN9800 Cuba
KGP1-KGP499 Curacao
KGP2001-KGP2499 Dominica
KGQ1-KGQ9800 Dominican Republic
KGR1-KGR499 Dutch Leeward Islands (General)
KGR1001-KGR1499 Dutch West Indies (General)
KGR2001-KGR2499 Dutch Windward Islands (General)
KGR3001-KGR3499 French West Indies (General)
KGR4001-KGR4499 Grenada
KGR5001-KGR5499 Guadeloupe
KGS1-KGS9000 Haiti
KGT1-KGT499 Jamaica
KGT1001-KGT1499 Martinique
KGT2001-KGT2499 Montserrat
KGU1-KGU499 Navassa Islands
KGV1-KGV8200 Puerto Rico
KGW1-KGW499 Saba
KGW2001-KGW2499 St. Christopher (St. Kitts), Nevis, and Anguilla
KGW3001-KGW3499 Saint Lucia
KGW5001-KGW5499 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
KGW7001-KGW7499 Sint Eustatius
KGW8001-KGW8499 Sint Maarten
KGX1-KGX499 Trinidad and Tobago
KGY1-KGY499 Turks and Caicos Islands
KGZ1-KGZ499 Virgin Islands of the United States
KH1-KH999 South American (General)
KHA1-KHA9800 Argentina
KHC1-KHC8200 Bolivia
KHD1-KHD9900 Brazil
KHF1-KHF9800 Chile
KHH1-KHH9900 Colombia
KHK1-KHK9990 Ecuador
KHL1-KHL9000 Falkland Islands
KHM1-KHM9000 French Guiana
KHN1-KHN9000 Guyana
KHP1-KHP9700 Paraguay
KHQ1-KHQ9800 Peru
KHR1-KHR9000 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
KHS1-KHS9000 Surinam
KHU1-KHU9800 Uruguay
KHW1-KHW9900 Venezuela

Legal Research Databases

Westlaw and Lexis
Bloomberg Law
Hein Online
Legal Scholarship Network
Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress) - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/mdbquery.html
Global Legal Monitor - http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?home
MERCOSUR: Common Market of the South (only in Spanish & Portuguese) - http://www.mercosur.int/msweb/portal%20intermediario/
Mercosur Trade Center - http://www.mercosurtc.com/
Mercosur: South America's Fractious Trade Bloc (Council on Foreign Relations) - http://www.cfr.org/trade/mercosur-south-americas-fractious-trade-bloc/p12762
South American Law & Policy - http://southamericanlaw.com/
International Legal News - Latin America (Law.com - ALM) - http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/latin_america.jsp
Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown U Center for Latin American Studies) - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
LANIC: Law and Justice in Latin America (University of Texas at Austin) - http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/law/
World Legal Materials from South America (LII) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/samerica.html
GlobaLex - Researching the Law of Latin America - http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Latin_America_Law_Research.htm
Hg.org - Global Legal Resources - http://www.hg.org/1table.html

Gumberg Databases

Course Listed Under the following Law School Concentrations

International and Comparative Law

created 2-20-2013
Patricia Horvath