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Costa Rica
Republic of Costa Rica / República de Costa Rica

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

Constitution

  • Costa Rica: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) Includes the 1949 Constitution and 2003 reforms; in Spanish
  • International Constitutional Law: Costa Rica Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes background information and links to constitutions elsewhere

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Executive

  • Casa Presidencial

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Judicial

  • Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones

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Legislative

  • OFFICIAL GAZETTE: La Gaceta, Diario Oficial
  • PARLIAMENT: Asamblea Legislativa
  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees, regulations, judicial decisions, and legal literature; full-text
  • Normas Basicas de Derecho Publico (CESDEPU - Centro de Estudios Superiores de Derecho Publico) offers updated and consolidated full texts in Spanish of the constitution and laws; in Spanish
  • NATLEX: Costa Rica (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Monitor: Costa Rica (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Costa Rica (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • FindLaw: Costa Rica
  • ForIntLaw: Costa Rica (Washburn University Law Library)
  • Update: Guide to Legal Research in Costa Rica (Roger A. Petersen, via GlobaLex) April 2007
  • World Legal Information Institute: Costa Rica (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from North America: Costa Rica (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
  • Portals to the World: Costa Rica (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Costa Rica (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington
  • Governments on the WWW: Costa Rica (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional - information (IFLA)
  • NEWS: BBC World Americas
  • U.S. Embassy, San José (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Costa Rica (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Costa Rica (Google); Costa Rica (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Costa Rica (University of Texas, Austin)

For more information on Costa Rica see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: Costa Rica

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