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

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constitution of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic) in English
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President (Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic)
• Prime Minister

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: People's Supreme Court - see Constitution, Chapter VII, The Judiciary Organizations

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Saphahengxat Sout Thi Si (National Assembly)
• Laos PDR Legal Documents (Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic) includes the Law on the promotion and management of foreign investment in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
• NATLEX: Laos (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: Laos (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Lao PDR and the UN until 2000 (UNDP Public Administration Reform Project / Lao PDR)
• Organization of the Government of the Lao PDR (UNDP Public Administration Reform Project / Lao PDR)
• World Law Index: Lao PDR (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Laos (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Laos () July 1994
• Portals to the World: Laos ()
• Background Notes: Laos (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Laos (Lao People's Democratic Republic) (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Laos (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Laos (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Laos (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Laos (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Laos (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Laos (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Asia-Pacific; News Bulletins of the Lao PDR (Embassy of the Lao People's Democratic Republic)
• Permanent Mission of the Lao People's Democratic Republic to the UN
• U.S. Embassy, Vientiane (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Laos (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Laos (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Laos (Google); Laos (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Laos (LaoNet)