Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Chile)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constituciones Politicás de Chile (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile) in Spanish
• Chile: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) includes copies of the 1980 constitution, with reforms through 2005 and a previous edition (reforms of 1989); in Spanish
• Constitution of the Republic of Chile (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
• International Constitutional Law: Chile Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Presidencia de la República
• Gobierno de Chile - official government site

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Corte Suprema; Cortes de Apelaciones
• Poder COURTS AND JUDICIARY

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Diario Oficial de la República de Chile
• PARLIAMENT: Congreso Nacional [National Congress]; composed of Senado de la República [Senate] and Cámara de Diputados [Chamber of Deputies] In Spanish
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 6,229 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1950 to February 2004
• Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional: Legislación (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile) includes laws, constitutions, international agreements, regulations, a search option and links to other government sites
• NATLEX: Chile (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• Natural Resources Legislation: Chile (University of Denver College of Law)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Chile (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Essential Issues of the Chilean Legal System (Sergio Endress Gómez, via GlobaLex) November 2005
• FindLaw: Chile
• ForIntLaw: Chile (Washburn University Law Library)
• JURIST: Chile (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources (Ruth Bird, via LLRX) April 15, 2002; includes Easter Island, a self governing territory
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Chile (Germany Bundestag)
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Chile (Germany Bundestag)
• World Legal Materials from South America: Chile (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Chile () March 1994
• Handbook of Latin American Studies ()
• Portals to the World: Chile ()
• Portals to the World: Easter Island (Chile) ()
• Background Notes: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Chile (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Western Hemisphere
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Chile (The Economist)
• Embassy of Chile, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Chile (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Chile (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
• NEWS: BBC World Americas
• U.S. Embassy, Santiago (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Chile (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Chile (Google); Chile (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Chile (University of Texas, Austin)