Feliz Dieciocho, Chile!

Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, also sends her congratulations to Chile today, on its 199th anniversary of independence. 

Not only is Chile know for its wines, but it is also one of the top five legal publishers in Latin America. Our Country-by-Country page contains several Chilean legal research guides to help you get started. Additionally, if you venture down to the Lower East Side, head to LC Call Number KHF where you can have a look at our Chilean legal collection, including current Chilean laws and the Civil Code of Chile in English. You can browse the collection in Morris.  Look at the Latin American Journals & Serials page for a quick glance at our holdings in Chile.  We even have a few Chilean DVDs.

Legal databases containing Chilean legal material include vLex and InterAm (subscription databases) and SciELO (open access).

Of course, for additional research assistance, please contanct the reference department.

Que lo pases bien!

The BBC recently reported that the EU and Cuba have formally renewed ties that were severed 5 years ago following "a mass arrest of dissidents." Cuba will now receive 2 million Euros of aid for the hurricanes that swept over the island this summer; aid will increase to 30 million Euros next year.

The Yale Law Library purchases Cuban legal materials whenever possible, in both English and Spanish.  You can find Cuban materials on the Lower East Side (LES), Call No. KGN.  See, for example:

• The Role of the Judiciary in Post-Castro Cuba - KGH2545 .S26 2003
• Instrumentos internacionales sobre derechos humanos ratificados por Cuba - KGN3003 .I57 2001
• La protección del medio ambiente en Cuba - KGN3305 .A67 C66 2005

Of course we also collect interdisciplinary materials involving Cuba and the United States.  Try a Subject Heading search in our Morris catalog:

• Cuba - Foreign Relations - United States; or
• Cuba - Foreign Economic Relations - United States
• When you pull up an item record on Morris, click on any of the Subjects Headings to view other related Subject Headings.  Click again on any of the Subject Headings to find related books.
  

For a compilation of treaties involving Cuba, try another Subject Heading search: Cuba - Foreign Relations - Treaties .  Also check out the new and improved United Nations Treaty Collection database.  It's open-access and easy to search.

We also have a few Cuban DVDs:

• Lucia (1968) by Humberto Solas (one of my all-time favorites!)
• Quien Diablos es Julietta? (1967) by Carlos Marcovich
  
• Check IMDB for reviews: Lucia and Julietta
  

The Avalon Project also has documents pertaining to Cuba, specifically the Cuban Missile Crisis.

On recent trips to the Ferias de Libros de Guadalajara and Buenos Aires, I selected several dozen DVDs from all over Latin America and the Caribbean, including Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay.  You can find them easily in the Morris catalog by conducting an Advanced Search with the country name as a Keyword, and limiting the Material Type to DVD-VHS.  If you have any suggestions for domestic or foreign films to add to our collection, please send an email to Teresa Miguel.  Remember, the film must have a legal premise or at least a tangential legal issue -- well, we have the run of Sex in the City because Miranda is a lawyer....

All of the Latin American journals and serial publications held by Yale Law Library are available on the Latin American Journals and Serials website.  The publications are organized alphabetically by country. Soon, other law school libraries with Latin American collections will add their holdings as well.

If you would like to suggest a new serial for the library, please send an email to Teresa Miguel.