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Nicaragua
Republic of Nicaragua / República de Nicaragua

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

Constitution

  • Nicaragua: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) includes the 1987 Constitution with 2005 reforms; in Spanish
  • International Constitutional Law: Nicaragua Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

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Executive

  • Presidencia

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Judicial

  • Corte Suprema de Justicia

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Legislative

  • OFFICIAL GAZETTE: La Gaceta, diario oficial
  • PARLIAMENT: Asamblea Nacional
  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees, regulations, and judicial decisions; full-text
  • NATLEX: Nicaragua (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
  • Natural Resources Legislation: Nicaragua (University of Denver College of Law)

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Monitor: Nicaragua (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Nicaragua (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • FindLaw: Nicaragua
  • ForIntLaw: Nicaragua (Washburn University Law Library)
  • Guide to Legal Research in Nicaragua (Magda Violeta Blandino via GlobaLex) March 2007
  • JURIST: Nicaragua (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
  • World Legal Information Institute: Nicaragua (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from North America: Nicaragua (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Country Study: Nicaragua (Library of Congress) December 1993
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
  • Portals to the World: Nicaragua (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Nicaragua (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Nicaragua (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Nicaragua (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Nicaragua (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under the Americas
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nicaragua (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Governments on the WWW: Nicaragua (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Nicaragua (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Nicaragua (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional Ruben Dario - information (IFLA)
  • NEWS: BBC World Americas
  • U.S. Embassy, Managua (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Nicaragua (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • World Hunger: Nicaragua (World Food Programme)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Nicaragua (Google); Nicaragua (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Nicaragua (University of Texas, Austin)

For more information on Nicaragua see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: Nicaragua

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