The Royal Spanish Academy of Letters (RAE) published the Diccionario panhispánico del español jurídico (Pan Hispanic Dictionary of Legal Spanish), with the presence of the King of Spain, Felipe VI, and the Dominican lawyer Fabio Guzmán Ariza, who was one of the contributors who worked on the local research and drafting of the piece.

The work, the result of the agreement signed between the RAE and the General Council of the Judicial Power (CGPJ) of Spain, has been directed and coordinated by Santiago Muñoz Machado the secretary of the Royal Academy of Letters and Professor of Administrative Law.

Guzmán Ariza, as a lawyer, Numerary member of the Dominican Academy of Letters and Corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Letters, was the Dominican academic responsible for collaborating in the development of this dictionary, which consists of 2,220 pages, divided into two volumes, and that will be the reference text for the entire Ibero-American legal community.

The dictionary is the result of a collaboration between 23 academies of the Spanish language worldwide and all of their countries’ Judicial Branches, in an effort to clarify the legal language and strengthen the unity of the Spanish language throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

In the presentation of the Dictionary have participated, in addition to King Felipe VI, directors and delegates of the 23 academies of letters, presidents, representatives of each of the supreme courts of Spain and Latin America, including Don Mariano Germán Mejía, president of the Dominican Supreme Court of Justice, as well as the President of the University of Salamanca.

[December 2017]