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To find an item in Loyola's collection that is not listed at right, please use Loyola's online catalog. Some suggested Library of Congress Subject Headings for titles on Latin American law are:
Law--Latin America
Rule of Law--Latin America
Civil Law--Latin America
Human Rights--Latin America
Judicial Process--Latin America
Justice, Administration of--Latin America
Latin America--Politics and Government
To locate books on individual countries, substitute "Latin America" with the name of the country (e.g., Law--Chile).
To locate books in libraries outside the Loyola University Chicago system, use the WorldCat database. Loyola Chicago Law School patrons should use ILLiad to request materials from non-Loyola libraries.
HathiTrust: HathiTrust is a partnership of over 50 major research institutions and libraries. Works that are in the public domain contained in the HathiTrust database are available to all researchers. Many search options are offered, including full-text.
Google Books: Books contained in Google Books come from two sources: 1) the Library Project; and 2) the Partner Program. Books included from the partnered Library Project that are no longer in copyright may be viewed in full text, while only snippets of books still in copyright are available. Only previews of books are available through the Partner Program.
Bilingual Spanish/English legal dictionaries are located in the 3rd Floor Reference Section in the K52 range.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) contains millions of items related to the Caribbean region. Its multiple partners include the University of Florida, Florida International University, and the University of Miami.
Part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico's (UNAM) Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, the virtual Biblioteca contains the full texts of monographs, journals, and other materials. The content emphasis is Mexico, but other Latin American countries are also covered.
Global Art and Heritage Law Series
The U.S.-based Committee for Cultural Policy has published nine volumes in a new Global Art and Heritage Law Series, "providing locally sourced data and information on law and cultural heritage free to a global audience." According to the website, the publication was created in collaboration with TrustLaw, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global pro bono legal program. The first nine volumes cover China, Italy and the EU, Peru, Nigeria, the United States, Bulgaria, India, England and Wales, and Turkey. Kate Fitz Gibbon is the series editor.