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Kuwait
State of Kuwait / Dowlat al Kuwait

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

Constitution

  • International Constitutional Law: Kuwait (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the 1962 constitution plus Background Note

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Executive

  • Prime Minister
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Judicial

  • High Court of Appeal
  • Ministry of Justice

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Legislative

  • OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Al Kuwayt al-yawm
  • PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-'Ummah al-Kuwayti [National Assembly]
  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 713 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from February 1961 to the present, with full-text access
  • NATLEX: Kuwait (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

  • GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Kuwait (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • Doing Foreign Business in Kuwait (Ali & Partners)
  • ForIntLaw: Kuwait (Washburn University Law Library)
  • Islamic Family Law: Kuwait (Emory University Law School)
  • Judicial Assistance: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • JURIST: Kuwait (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
  • World Legal Materials from Middle East: Kuwait (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Country Study: Kuwait (Library of Congress) January 1993
  • Portals to the World: Kuwait (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Kuwait (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Near East / North Africa
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Governments on the WWW: Kuwait (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Kuwait (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NEWS: BBC World Middle East
  • Permanent Mission of the State of Kuwait to the UN
  • U.S. Embassy, Kuwait City (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Kuwait (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Kuwait (Google); Kuwait (Yahoo); Middle East Studies: Kuwait (Columbia University); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Kuwait (University of Texas, Austin)

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