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
Executive
Judicial
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
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Costa Rica (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Costa Rica (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- FindLaw: Costa Rica
- ForIntLaw: Costa Rica (Washburn University Law Library)
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases - Costa Rica (New York 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)
General Sources
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (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
- Human Rights in Costa Rica (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional - information (IFLA)
- NEWS: BBC World News: Latin America & Caribbean
- U.S. Embassy, San José (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Costa Rica (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Costa Rica (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Costa Rica (University of Texas, Austin)
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Last Updated: 01/29/2012
