Tag Archives: Latin America

Comparative Study of Oil Exploration and Development Regimes

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Bain and Company and the Brazilian Law Firm of Tozzini Freire Advogados authored a multi-part comparative study of oil and gas production regimes around the world. The study was produced for Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social) to help Brazil design a scheme to develop its large offshore oil reserves. The study is published exclusively in Portuguese, but the charts and bibliographies will be useful to all. The study constitutes of the following 4 reports.

RELATÓRIO I – REGIMES JURÍDICO-REGULATÓRIOS E CONTRATUAIS DE E&P DE PETRÓLEO

Report 1: Legal and  Regulatory Arrangements and Contracts For Oil Exploration & Production

557 pages

RELATÓRIO II – FUNDOS FINANCEIROS BASEADOS EM RECEITAS DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS

Report 2:Financial Funds Based on Income from Oil and Gas Receipts  (Sovereign wealth funds, etc.)

170 pages

RELATÓRIO III – DESENVOLVIMENTO DA CADEIA PRODUTIVA DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS E INVESTIMENTOS EM E&P

Report 3: Development of the Chain of Production of Investments in Oil and Gas Exploration.

473 pages

ESTUDOS DE ALTERNATIVAS REGULATÓRIAS, INSTITUCIONAIS E FINANCEIRAS PARA A EXPLORAÇÃO EPRODUÇÃO DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS NATURAL E PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO INDUSTRIAL DA CADEIA PRODUTIVA DE PETRÓLEO E GÁS NATURAL NO BRASIL

Studies of Regulatory Institutional and Financial Alternatives for Oil and Gas Exploration and the Development of the Chain of Production for Oil and Natural Gas in Brazil.

238 pages

All four reports are available full-text at:

http://www.tozzinifreire.com.br/portugues/Noticias/arquivos092009.php

http://www.tozzinifreire.com.br/portugues/Noticias/index.php

Hap tip to attorney Luiz Antonio Maia Espínola de Lemos who helped author the reports and posted them on the Tozzini Freire Web site. 

Muito obrigado!

Guide to International Human Rights Mechanisms

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The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission maintains an online copy of  “Making the Mountain Move: An Activist’s Guide to How International Human Rights Mechanisms Can Work for You.”  This guide provides information on the UN Treaty Based Human Rights bodies, Inter-American Human Rights system, African Union, and the European Court of Human Rights.

Making the Mountain Move: An Activist’s Guide to How International Human Rights Mechanisms Can Work for You.

http://www.iglhrc.org/binary-data/ATTACHMENT/file/000/000/179-1.pdf

Foreign Law Portal – InformáticaJurídica.com

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InformáticaJurídica.com is a foreign law portal focusing mainly on Internet law, privacy, and intellectual property issues. It provides citations to statutes from hundreds of countries. It also posts selected full-text statutes and case law in the vernacular, principally from Latin American and European countries. The site also contains a bibliography of Spanish and English language secondary literature, a list of past and future conferences and meetings, and links (click on directorio).  Site navigation is entirely in Spanish.

InformáticaJurídica.com

http://www.informatica-juridica.com/

Roman Law at the University of Buenos Aires

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Researchers of Latin American law often encounter references to Roman law in doctrinal works and secondary resources. The University of Buenos Aires School of Law  maintains a Web page dedicated to Roman Law. The site contains articles on various topics, conference papers, links, and an in-depth introduction to legal Latin. All content is in Spanish.

Cátedra de derecho romano del Dr. Norberto Darío Rinaldi.  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de derecho

http://www.edictum.com.ar/

Click on “Romanistas” to access to majority of the content:

http://www.edictum.com.ar/miWeb4/profesores.htm

Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law

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The Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law (Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual) posts free articles on civil and criminal procedure in Brazil. The site also contains  bills introduced in the Brazilian Senate and National Congress. All materials are in Portuguese.

Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law

http://www.direitoprocessual.org.br/site/

Click on “artigos”

PixeLegis: University of Seville Digital Legal Books Project

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The University of Seville Library has an ongoing project to digitize its law related titles. The PixeLegis project is posting out of  copyright texts online., The majority of texts are from the 19thCentury. The focus of the collection is Spanish law and civil law in general. Books are available in Spanish, Latin, French, German and English.  A nice feature of the site is the breakdown of texts by area of law. This should prove useful to scholars interested in historical legal developments in Spain or Latin America. Un millón de gracias a nuestros colegas en la Universidad de Sevilla. 

PixeLegis  http://bib.us.es/derecho/recursos/pixelegis/index-ides-idweb.html

Article on Legal Education in Brazil

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The latest issue of the Revista Jurídica Universidad de Puerto Rico has an article on reform of the legal education system in Brazil.

Legal Research in Brazil: Traps and Alternatives to Legal Formalism                                                                                               Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto and Paulo Todescan Lessa Mattos                                                                                          Revista Jurídica Universidad de Puerto Rico. Vol.77  No.2 (2008).

“We persistently talk of a crisis inlegal teaching in Brazil and otherLatin Ameican countries in spite of a the recent wave of innovative experiences in many institutions of the region. The diagnosis of this crisis is not new… it is possible to highlight at least two central aspects of the diagnosis: (1) an apparent incompatability between legal practices that are perceived as traditional … and the need for legal actors to be in constant transformation because of internationalization; and(2) the ostensible inefectiveness of the teaching methods employed , which are based exclusively on lectures where professors articulate abstract dogmatic concepts …”

New Bolivian Constitution

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Bolivian voters approved a new constitution in a national referendum on Sunday, January 25. This constitution should be of interest to students of Latin American law, indigenous rights, minority language rights, and sustainable development law.

Full-text (Spanish)  of the new Constitution can be found here:

http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/documentos/TextoCPE.pdf

http://www.cne.org.bo/proces_electoral/RefConstitucion2009/textos.aspx

New York Times article on the constitutional referendum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/world/americas/26bolivia.html?ref=world

Journal of the Argentine Association of Law Librarians

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Volume 3 of the Journal of the Argentine Association of Law Librarians has just been published. Articles are in Spanish.

Table of Contents

 

1. EDITORIAL

2. ARTÍCULOS (Articles)
Tendencias en la investigación sobre recuperación de información
jurídica, por María Luisa Alvite Díez

2.Trends in research of legal information retrieval.

3. EXPERIENCIAS  (Practical Experience)
Referencia virtual por chat, por Marina Borrell y Evangelina Maciel.

3. Virtual chat reference

4. CURSOS Y CONFERENCIAS (Workshops and Conferences)
Los sistemas de información en las bibliotecas de estudios jurídicos: su
administración, tratamiento y control de la información, y relación con
otras bibliotecas, por María Isabel Abalo, María Inés Olmedo y María
Inés Vilá

4.  Information Systems in Law Libraries: administration, management of information and relationships with other libraries. 

5. LA ASOCIACIÓN

5. Argentine Association of Law Librarians

6. NOTICIAS

6. News

To order a copy, contact the Publications Department of the Argentine Association of Law Librarians publicaciones@acbj.org.ar

Asociación Civil de Bibliotecarios Jurídicos (Argentine Association of Law Librarians)

 

http://www.acbj.org.ar

 

Article on Regional Financial Institutions in Latin America

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The Americas Program Web site posted a useful article on development banks and financial institutions in Latin America. . It discusses current institutions, as well as those planned for the future, such as the Bank of the South. The article is available in English and Spanish.

An Introduction to Regional Financial Institutions in Latin America. By Eduardo Gudynas. http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5460

Una introducción a las IFRs: instituciones financieras regionales en América Latina. http://www.ircamericas.org/esp/5368