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New Zealand

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

Constitution

  • Governor-General
  • International Constitutional Law: New Zealand (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers the basic constitutional laws
  • On the Constitution of New Zealand: An Introduction to the Foundations of the Current Form of Government (New Zealand Cabinet Office) summary of New Zealand's constitutional arrangements, including links to relevant legislation

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Executive

  • Cabinet Office
  • New Zealand Executive Government archives from 1993-1999
  • New Zealand Government

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Judicial

  • Courts of New Zealand Official Site
  • Judicial Decisions Online (Courts of New Zealand)
  • Judicial Decisions of Public Interest (Ministry of Justice) decisions of particular public interest are published as soon as possible after they are given
  • New Zealand Courts and Decisions (University of Waikato Law Library)
  • NZLII Databases court decisions; also includes legislation, treaties, and law journals

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Legislative

  • PARLIAMENT: House of Representatives
  • GP Legislation Acts; see also Lists of Acts in the GP Legislation collections
  • NATLEX: New Zealand (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
  • New Zealand Legislation website - including Bills, Acts, and Regulations

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Information Catalog: New Zealand (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • Global Legal Monitor: New Zealand (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • New Zealand: General Elections (Law Library of Congress)
  • New Zealand: Mâori Culture and Intellectual Property Law (Law Library of Congress)
  • FindLaw: New Zealand
  • ForIntLaw: New Zealand (Washburn University Law Library)
  • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases - New Zealand (New York University Law Library)
  • Judicial Assistance: New Zealand (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • New Zealand Legal Materials (University of Waikato Law Library)
  • Update: An Introduction to New Zealand Law & Sources of Information (Maria Connor and Margaret Greville via GlobaLex)
  • World Legal Information Institute: New Zealand (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from Australasia: New Zealand (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
  • World Legal Materials from Australasia: Tokelau (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Background Note: New Zealand (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: New Zealand (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: New Zealand (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: New Zealand (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: New Zealand (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • The Economist: New Zealand
  • Embassy of New Zealand, Washington
  • A Guide to Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations: New Zealand (U.S. Dept. of State. Office of the Historian)
  • Human Rights in New Zealand (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Reports: New Zealand (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • National Library of New Zealand
  • U.S. Embassy, Wellington (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: New Zealand (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • World Health Organization: New Zealand
  • Yahoo: New Zealand

For more information on New Zealand see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: New Zealand
  • New Zealand: General Elections
  • New Zealand: Mâori Culture and Intellectual Property Law

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