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The Dominican Legal Dictionary brings together 10,056 terms, 11,201 meanings and more than 12,000 citations from legal and jurisprudential sources
Santo Domingo. – The National School of the Judiciary, the Dominican Academy of Language and the Guzmán Ariza Institute of Lexicography presented the Dominican Legal Dictionary (DJD), the first academic work of a general nature dedicated to the vocabulary of Dominican law, under the direction of the jurist and lexicographer Fabio J. Guzmán Ariza.
Published in two volumes totaling 1,387 pages, the work brings together 10,056 defined terms, 11,201 meanings and 12,716 citations from legal and jurisprudential sources that support the definitions or document the use of the terms in the Dominican legal field. Its elaboration lasted five years and eight months.
“Today culminates almost six years of work at the head of a large team of jurists committed to making a work that began to take shape a decade ago a reality,” Guzmán Ariza said during the presentation ceremony, held in the auditorium of the Supreme Court of Justice.
The work also seeks to contribute to the clear language movement. Although it is mainly aimed at law professionals and students, it was designed so that any citizen can consult and understand the legal terms they find in laws, judicial decisions and other legal texts. As Guzmán Ariza pointed out during the presentation, “understanding the rules that govern us should not be the privilege of jurists, but a right of all citizens.”
Precisely because of the constant evolution of legislation and jurisprudence, the DJD is conceived as a living work, open to criticism, correction and updating. During his speech, Guzmán Ariza raised the need to constitute a permanent team to follow up on legislative reforms, examine jurisprudential evolutions and prepare periodic updates of the work.
Guzmán Ariza especially highlighted the institutional support of Judge Luis Henry Molina; the work of Dariel Suárez Adames and Ángel Brito Pujols, who directed the National School of the Judiciary during the different stages of the preparation of the dictionary; and the constant accompaniment and lexicographic advice of Ruth Ruiz Pérez, corresponding member of the Dominican Academy of Language.
The event was attended by judicial, academic and government authorities, as well as judges, lawyers, professors, collaborators of the project and representatives of the Dominican legal and linguistic community.
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