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Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil
República Federativa do Brasil
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Brazil: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) includes the current (1988 with 2005 reforms) and historic editions in Portuguese; with an older edition (1988 with 2003 reforms) in English
- Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil (Brazil. Senate) includes the 1988 edition with current reforms in Portuguese
- International Constitutional Law: Brazil (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes Constitution and updates in English and Background Note
Executive
Judicial
- COURTS: Supremo Tribunal Federal [Supreme Constitutional Court]; Superior Tribunal de Justiça [Superior Court of Justice]
- Ministry of Justice
- Jurisprudência Online (CD-Graf Publicações Eletrônicas Ltda) in Portuguese; offers links to Brazilian federal court system and decisions, including Direct Actions on Unconstitutionality ("ADINs")
Legislative
- OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Diário Oficial
- PARLIAMENT: Câmara dos Deputados [Chamber of Deputies] and Senado Federal [Federal Senate]
- GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 12,703 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1950 to present, with full-text access
- Legislação Federal Brasileira (Brazil. Senado Federal) provides full-text access to the Constitution, federal Codes and major laws
- NATLEX: Brazil (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
- Natural Resources Legislation: Brazil (University of Denver College of Law)
Legal Guides
- Children's Rights: Brazil (Law Library of Congress)
- Legal Research Guide: Brazil (Law Library of Congress)
- GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Brazil (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Doing Legal Research in Brazil (Edilenice Passos, via GlobaLex) February 2005
- FindLaw: Brazil
- ForIntLaw: Brazil (Washburn University Law Library)
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Brazil (New York University Law Library)
- Judicial Assistance: Taking Depositions in Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- JURIST: Brazil (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
- World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Brazil (IFLA/Germany Bundestag)
- World Legal Information Institute: Brazil (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from South America: Brazil (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Brazil (Library of Congress) April 1997
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
- Portals to the World: Brazil (Library of Congress)
- United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (Library of Congress / Brazil Biblioteca Nacional)
- Background Note: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Brazil (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Profile of Brazil (U.S. Dept. of Labor) - excerpt from By The Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress, Volume I (July 15, 1994)
- Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Economic Briefing: Brazil (The Economist)
- Embassy of Brazil, Washington
- Governments on the WWW: Brazil (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Brazil (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional
- NEWS: BBC World Americas; BBC Portuguese
- U.S. Embassy, Brasilia (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Brazil (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Brazil (Google); Brazil (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Brazil (University of Texas, Austin)
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Last Updated: 03/18/2008