“Abuelo, no one uses these anymore,” Lucía said, holding up a tattered copy of Llerena Amadeo on constitutional law. “We have the digital databases. A click and I get the latest jurisprudence.”
Lucía felt a chill. She had studied that article for her torts exam last semester. She had passed with a 9 (sobresaliente). But she had never felt it. libros de derecho argentina
“Abuelo,” she whispered, “I don’t want you to get rid of them.” “Abuelo, no one uses these anymore,” Lucía said,
He gestured to the thousands of volumes. “One day, you’ll be arguing before the Court, and some young clerk will cite a digital precedent from the day before. But you will remember that Argentine law is older than that. It is in the Recopilación de las Leyes de Indias . It is in the Proyecto de 1936 . It is in the dissenting votes of the ’90s, and the feminist annotations in the margins of the new Código Civil y Comercial of 2015. The libros hold the memory.” She had studied that article for her torts