Bahamas Law - Library of Congress - Bahamas Law Resources

The Bahamas
Commonwealth of the Bahamas

CONSTITUTION

* Bahamas Constitution, 1973 (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) in English
* International Constitutional Law: Bahamas Index (Universitât Bern Institut f?r ˜ffentliches Recht) background information only

EXECUTIVE

* Government
* Executive Branch - includes Governor; Prime Minister
* Bahamas: Executive Institutions / Instituciones Ejecutivas (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)

JUDICIAL

* Judiciary Branch - Supreme Court

LEGISLATIVE

* PARLIAMENT: Parliament, consisting of the Senate and the House of Assembly
* Laws and Acts (Commonwealth of the Bahamas)
* NATLEX: The Bahamas (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

* GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
* Multinational Collections Database: Bahamas (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
* ForIntLaw: Bahamas (Washburn University Law Library)
* Guide to Caribbean Law Research (Yemisi Dina via GlobaLex) May 2006
* World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Bahamas (Germany Bundestag)
* World Legal Information Institute: Bahamas (WorldLII)
* World Legal Materials from North America: Bahamas (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

GENERAL SOURCES

* Country Study: Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Library of Congress) includes the Bahamas; November 1987
* Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
* Portals to the World: Bahamas (Library of Congress)
* Background Notes: The Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Bahamas (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* Consular Information Sheet: The Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Country Information: Bahamas (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: Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Governments on the WWW: Bahamas (Gunnar Anzinger)
* Human Rights in Bahamas (Amnesty International)
* International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Bahamas (U.S. Dept. of State)
* NEWS: BBC World Americas
* U.S. Embassy, Nassau (U.S. Dept. of State)
* World Factbook: The Bahamas (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Bahamas (Google); Bahamas (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Bahamas (University of Texas, Austin)