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Chile
Republic of Chile / República de Chile

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

  • Constituciones Politicás de Chile (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile) in Spanish
  • Chile: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) includes copies of the 1980 constitution, with reforms through 2005 and a previous edition (reforms of 1989); in Spanish
  • Constitution of the Republic of Chile (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
  • International Constitutional Law: Chile Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

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Executive

  • Presidencia de la República
  • Gobierno de Chile - official government site

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Judicial

  • COURTS: Corte Suprema; Cortes de Apelaciones
  • Poder Judicial

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Legislative

  • OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Diario Oficial de la República de Chile
  • PARLIAMENT: Congreso Nacional [National Congress]; composed of Senado de la República [Senate] and Cámara de Diputados [Chamber of Deputies] In Spanish
  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 6,688 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1950 to present
  • Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional: Legislación (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile) includes laws, constitutions, international agreements, regulations, a search option and links to other government sites
  • NATLEX: Chile (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
  • Natural Resources Legislation: Chile (University of Denver College of Law)

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Legal Guides

  • GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Chile (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • UPDATE: Essential Issues of the Chilean Legal System (Sergio Endress Gómez via GlobaLex)
  • FindLaw: Chile
  • ForIntLaw: Chile (Washburn University Law Library)
  • JURIST: Chile (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
  • Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources (Ruth Bird, via LLRX) April 15, 2002; includes Easter Island, a self governing territory
  • World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Chile (Germany Bundestag)
  • World Legal Information Institute: Chile (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from South America: Chile (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Country Study: Chile (Library of Congress) March 1994
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
  • Portals to the World: Chile (Library of Congress)
  • Portals to the World: Easter Island (Chile) (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Chile (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Economic Briefing: Chile (The Economist)
  • Embassy of Chile, Washington
  • Governments on the WWW: Chile (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Chile (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Chile (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
  • NEWS: BBC World Americas
  • U.S. Embassy, Santiago (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Chile (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Chile (Google); Chile (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Chile (University of Texas, Austin)

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