Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Kuwait)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• International Constitutional Law: Kuwait (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the 1962 constitution plus background notes

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Prime Minister
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• High Court of Appeal
• Ministry of Justice

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Al Kuwayt al-yawm
• PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-'Ummah al-Kuwayti [National Assembly]
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 364 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from February 1961 to January 2005, with full-text access
• NATLEX: Kuwait (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Kuwait (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Doing Foreign Business in Kuwait (Ali & Partners)
• ForIntLaw: Kuwait (Washburn University Law Library)
• Islamic Family Law: Kuwait (Emory University Law School)
• COURTS AND JUDICIARY Assistance: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
• JURIST: Kuwait (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Legal Materials from Middle East: Kuwait (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
• WWW-VL Islamic Law: Kuwait (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Kuwait () January 1993
• Portals to the World: Kuwait ()
• Background Notes: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Kuwait (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Near East / North Africa
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Kuwait (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Kuwait (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Middle East
• Permanent Mission of the Lawyer Information and Law Firm Research Links for The State of Kuwait to the UN
• U.S. Embassy, Kuwait City (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Kuwait (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Kuwait (Google); Kuwait (Yahoo); Middle East Studies: Kuwait (Columbia University); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Kuwait (University of Texas, Austin)