Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides Other Sources (includes LC Portals: Dominican Republic)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constitución Política de la República Dominicana (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) 1994 and 2002 editions; in Spanish
• International Constitutional Law: Dominican Republic Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes background and history

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Presidencia de la República Dominicana - in Spanish, with portions in English
• Dominican Republic: National Executive Branch / Poder Ejecutivo Nacional (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• Suprema Corte de Justicia

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Gaceta oficial de la República Dominicana
• PARLIAMENT: Congreso Nacional composed of the Cámara de Senadores and Cámara de Diputados
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 687 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1977 to August 1998
• NATLEX: Dominican Republic (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• Natural Resources Legislation: Dominican Republic (University of Denver College of Law)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Dominican Republic (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• ForIntLaw: Dominican Republic (Washburn University Law Library)
• JURIST: Dominican Republic (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Legal Materials from North America: Dominican Republic (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Dominican Republic () December 1989
• Handbook of Latin American Studies ()
• Background Notes: Dominican Republic (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Dominican Republic (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Dominican Republic (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Dominican Republic (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 or the Americas
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Dominican Republic (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Embassy of the Dominican Republic, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Dominican Republic (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Dominican Republic (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Dominican Republic (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional - information (IFLA)
• NEWS: BBC World Americas
• U.S. Embassy, Santo Domingo (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Dominican Republic (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Dominican Republic (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Dominican Republic (Google); Dominican Republic (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Dominican Republic (University of Texas, Austin)