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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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from LLRX.com

Sources of United States of America Legal Information in Languages Other than English [Published March 27, 2005]
http://www.llrx.com/features/otherthanenglish.htm
By Mark E. Poorman

This detailed guide identifies a range of web resources, services and print publications available from state and federal government agencies, courts, and academic institutions.

Mark E. Poorman is an attorney licensed to practice law by the State Bars of Texas and California and a recent graduate of the University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences with a Masters Degree in Law Librarianship and Legal Informatics.  He credits Lynn K. Sanchez, Victoria Corona and Isabel Rivas, the director and staff of the Hon. Robert J. Galvan County Law Library, El Paso, Texas, where he interned with suggesting the need for more sources of legal information in languages other than English.


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Introduction

Sources for United States of America Legal information abound.  The U.S. Constitution and Statutes are available from the <http://www.gpoaccess.gov/>Government Printing Office and annotated versions from West, Lexis and others.  Online versions of these publications link to the Code of Federal Regulations, statutes, regulations and case law from all States as well as the Federal Courts.  With the increasing number of state and federal statutes, regulations, reported cases, and access to unreported cases, the need for compellation and annotation has lead to many topical publications in formats ranging from advanced sheets, through electronic publications to hardbound books.  Even with the recent consolidation in the U.S. legal publishing industry, the number of titles available on any jurisdiction, or legal topic, generally provide adequate coverage for any practice area.  Yet, by in large, none of this vast store of legal information is readily available in any language other than English.  The purpose of this article is to uncover the hidden sources for U.S. legal information in languages other than English and promote the publication of more readily accessible sources.

Justification

A justification for publishing sources of United States legal information in languages other than English appears appropriate in light of traditional beliefs about the U.S. legal system.  The opinion, once held by many, was that English is the language of the U.S. and that all legal information should be published only in English.  This view was supported by the theory that the United States is a melting pot in which ethnic and cultural characteristics are submerged and English is the common language, and dominant culture, of the U.S.

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