Kuwait Law Resources

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Kuwait
State of Kuwait / Dowlat al Kuwait



CONSTITUTION

* International Constitutional Law: Kuwait (Universitât Bern Institut f?r ˜ffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the 1962 constitution plus background notes

EXECUTIVE

* Prime Minister
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs

JUDICIAL

* High Court of Appeal
* Ministry of Justice

LEGISLATIVE

* OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Al Kuwayt al-yawm
* PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-'Ummah al-Kuwayti [National Assembly]
* GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 713 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from February 1961 to the present, with full-text access
* NATLEX: Kuwait (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: Kuwait (Law Library of Congress) 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)
* Judicial 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)


GENERAL SOURCES

* Country Study: Kuwait (Library of Congress) January 1993
* Portals to the World: Kuwait (Library of Congress)
* 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 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)