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* Case Law and Case Law Abstracts .-

Palacio Legislativo

The selection of judicial resolutions is made most objectively in order to show them as representative of the main trends in this matter. The criteria for selection are graded; the basis is composed of choice resolutions issued in all instances by the higher Courts of the country, indicating the corresponding confirmation or reversal, offering a variety of legal topics and, essentially, of important legal issues dealt with and decided by the Courts. Our purpose is to promptly provide the readers with the most recent resolutions on the corresponding subjects (current and updated). Each bimonthly issue of our publication contains the transcription of documents selected from the latest collections of judgments (and courts are encouraged to put their decisions and material at our disposal, as far as possible, within the month of issue -for the higher Courts- and within the three months following the day of publication or the delivery of a copy thereof to the parties, for the lower Courts, thus following a universally accepted practice).

Palacio de Justicia

As to the presentation of judgments and documents, the texts are unabridged. In the paper edition, those referring to case law abstracts are at the readers' disposal in our office. In the Internet version the documents corresponding to such case law abstracts are not abridged, either. The search for documents containing judicial resolutions is made faster and more effective by means of headings and headlines, key words, fixed vocabulary, abstracts, comments, summaries and analyses, information on the challenging means filed by the parties and annotations referring to legislation, judgments and doctrine. All the above and generally the bases, analytical structures and data compilation are protected by copyright, as they constitute an original intellectual creation, as well as the rest of the material gathered for publication. In the production of said works many legal scholars (especially university professors and legal writers, and judges) have collaborated since the initial numbers of our paper. Their knowledge has brought to this collection its fundamental features, thus shaping the first criteria for the legal and documentary analysis and for the compilation of the indexes and files of the time. As from the year 1996 (Volume 113) experts in legal and computer analysis of international renown have collaborated with us, deserving from all the readership a well earned acknowledgment, both in continental as well as in common law countries. Today our publication has consolidated on the basis of present-day criteria, as now we are in possession of the necessary experience as regards both modern doctrinal approaches and recent legal provisions (i.e., the General Code of Procedure, that ten years ago introduced hearing system proceedings). This will be essential for the addition of computer science practices in the field of law, for Uruguayan as well as for foreign readers.

Doctrine, Book Reviews and Case Law Notes .-

Palacio Piria - Suprema Corte de Justicia

The Collection has so far included a total of 4.006 articles on legal doctrine, book reviews and case law notes. Among the authors we find extremely capable and learned jurists, coming from abroad such as Giorgio Del Vecchio, W. Goldschmidt, Gastón Jeze, Manuel López Rey y Arroyo among others. Also Uruguayan law professors of international renown and prestige, such as Quintín Alfonsín, Eduardo Albanell Mc Coll, José A. Arlas, Aníbal L. Barbagelata, Dante Barrios de Angelis, Juan B. Carballo, Horacio Cassinelli Muñoz, Saúl D. Cestau, Eduardo J. Couture, Francisco de Ferrari, José Ferro Astray, Jorge Gamarra, Hugo Gatti, Adolfo Gelsi Bidart, Héctor Giorgi, Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga, Justino Jiménez de Aréchaga, Raúl Moretti, Américo Plá Rodríguez, Alberto Ramón Real, Enrique Sayagués Laso, Enrique Tarigo, Ramón Valdés Costa, Eduardo Vaz Ferreira, Enrique Vescovi.- The collection includes the work of recognized law specialists as Alejandro Abal Oliú, Gabriel Adriasola, Víctor Hugo Bermúdez, Guido Berro Oribe, Mariano Brito, Milton Cairoli, Juan José Carbajal Victorica, Adhemar H. Carámbula, Santiago Carnelli, Héctor Cerruti Aicardi, Federico Cibils Hamilton, Ruben Correa Freitas, Herbert Curbelo Urroz, Carlos Delpiazzo, Alberto Domínguez Cámpora, Zolá Díaz Peluffo, José María Franca, Alfredo Giribaldi Oddo, Teresa Gnazzo, Horacio González Mullin, Ariosto González, José Gorfinkiel, Romeo Grompone, Héctor Gross Espiell, Jorge Lagarmilla, Miguel Langón, Arturo Lerena Acevedo, Juan Llambías de Azevedo, Jorge A. Marabotto, Daniel H. Martins, José A. Mora Otero, Julio César Motta, Nelson Nicoliello, Ricardo Olivera García, Santiago Pereira Campos, Sagunto Pérez Fontana, Santiago Pérez del Castillo, Jorge C. Perera, José Sanchez Fontans, Tabaré Sosa, Jaime Teitelbaum, Eduardo Tellechea Bergman, Yamandú Tourné, Edgar Varela Méndez, Luis Alberto Viera, Juan P. Zeballos, Leslie Van Rompaey y Selva Klett among others.- 0ur publication has always been open to insert in its pages works produced by learned young men, of high intellectual merit.

Users of the Legal Information System .-

Judges and the State Attorneys are our select readers. We may state that our paper is resorted to by all of them. It has always afforded them great advantages in their access to legal information. Lawyers, Notaries Public, Law Firms (both lawyers' and notaries') Legal Departments of private companies and Public Agencies, Court assistants and collaborators (auctioneers, auditors) and Judicial Experts (physicians, architects, engineers, etc.) make up the legal and judicial world to which our paper is addressed, as an inescapable reference. Abroad, the main Universities and Higher Legal Learning Institutions -mainly Comparative Law Institutes- are the most qualified clients, who find in our Collection the necessary references on Uruguayan Law and the application thereof. For example, the Congress of the United States Library, the Max Planck Institute at Freiburg and others.