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This paper aims to explore the possibilities of using literature review or evidence synthesis techniques —commonly used in the health sciences and other basic and applied sciences— in legal research. To that end, the article briefly discusses the concept, classification, and conditions of literature reviews, along with their current uses (an extremely broad and complex subject). It then examines works on legal research methods that refer to literature reviews and presents a set of studies that apply these techniques to the legal field. Finally, the authors synthesize the above to try to answer the following questions: What are the techniques for literature review? Can these techniques be used in legal research? Should they be used? As shown by the extensive background reviewed, there are very few opinions on this matter in the literature. Therefore, the answer reached, although well-founded, does not exhaust this broad and complex issue.