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Argentine Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights

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The following is a guest post by Graciela Rodriguez-Ferrand, senior foreign law specialist for Argentina and several other Spanish-speaking jurisdictions.

Argentina has a federal republic form of government and a democratic political system.  The Argentine Constitution, enacted in 1853 and last amended in 1994, provides for three branches of government: an executive branch headed by a president, a bicameral legislature, and a judiciary.

Cover page of the first Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina ( Official Gazette) from July 1, 1893.
Cover page of the first Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina ( Official Gazette) from July 1, 1893.

Argentina is a civil law country with a Romanist continental legal system.  Under this system, a judge renders a sentence, which, stric