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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 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations; full-text
  • NATLEX: Kuwait (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Information Catalog: Kuwait (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • Global Legal Monitor: Kuwait (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • 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)
  • World Legal Information Institute: Kuwait (WorldLII)
  • 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
  • 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 Human Rights Practices: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Human Rights in Kuwait (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Reports: Kuwait (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Middle East Studies: Kuwait (Columbia University)
  • 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)
  • Yahoo: Kuwait

For more information on Kuwait see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: Kuwait

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