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