Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil
República Federativa do Brasil
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil (Brazil. Senate) in Portuguese
- Brazil: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) includes the current and historic editions in Portuguese; with an older edition (1988 with 1996 reforms) in English
- International Constitutional Law: Brazil (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes Constitution and updates in English and Background Note
- Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
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 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations; full-text
- Legislação Federal Brasileira (Brazil. Senado Federal) provides full-text access to the Constitution, federal Codes and major laws
- LexLM Brazil: Legislative and Legal Information Portal a product of the Projecto LexML Brasil
- NATLEX: Brazil (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Children's Rights: Brazil (Law Library of Congress)
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Brazil (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Brazil (Law Library of Congress)
- Legal Research Guide: Brazil (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- FindLaw: Brazil
- ForIntLaw: Brazil (Washburn University Law Library)
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Brazil (New York University Law Library)
- Judicial Assistance: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Update: Doing Legal Research in Brazil (Edilenice Passos; GlobaLex)
- 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)
- 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 Reports on Human Rights Practices: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Economic Briefing: Brazil (The Economist)
- Embassy of Brazil, Washington
- Human Rights in Brazil (Amnesty International)
- International Labor Affairs in Brazil (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Latin American Studies: Brazil (University of Texas, Austin)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional
- NEWS: BBC World News: Latin America & Caribbean; BBC Portuguese
- U.S. Embassy, Brasilia (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Brazil (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Health Organization: Brazil
- Yahoo: Brazil
For more information on Brazil, see:
- Global Legal Monitor: Brazil
- Children's Rights: Brazil
- Crimes Against Humanity: Brazil
- The Legal System Of Brazil
- Legal Research Guide: Brazil – The Judicial Branch
- Legal Research Guide: Brazil – The Executive Branch
- Legal Research Guide: Brazil – The Legislative Branch
Last Updated: 01/29/2012
