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Peru
Republic of Peru / República del Perú

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

Constitution

  • Perú: Constitución / Constitution (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) in Spanish
  • International Constitutional Law: Peru (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

Executive

  • Presidencia
  • Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Peru (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  • Peru: Executive Institutions / Instituciones ejecutivas (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)

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Judicial

  • Poder Judicial de la Republica del Peru
  • Ministerio de Justicia del Peru
  • SPIJ: Sistema Peruviana de Informacion Juridica offers information in Spanish on an extensive collections of Peruvian legal materials for sale. Sponsored by Peru's Ministry of Justice in cooperation with the Programa Nacional de Informá y Comunicaciones and the United Nations Development Program

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Legislative

  • OFFICIAL GAZETTE: El Peruano, Diario Oficial
  • PARLIAMENT: Congreso de la República del Perú
  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations; full-text
  • Archivo Digital de la Legislación del Perú
  • NATLEX: Peru (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
  • Natural Resources Legislation: Peru (University of Denver College of Law)

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Monitor: Peru (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Peru (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • Essential Issues of the Peruvian Legal System (via GlobaLex) April 2005
  • FindLaw: Peru
  • ForIntLaw: Peru (Washburn University Law Library)
  • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Peru (New York University Law Library)
  • JURIST: Peru (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
  • World Law Index (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from South America: Peru (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Country Study: Peru (Library of Congress) September 1992
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
  • Places in the News: Peru (Library of Congress)
  • Portals to the World: Peru (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Peru (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Peru (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Peru (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Peru (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: Peru (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Economic Briefing: Peru (The Economist)
  • Embassy of Peru, Washington
  • Governments on the WWW: Peru (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Peru (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Peru (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional del Perú
  • NEWS: BBC World Americas
  • U.S. Embassy, Lima (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Peru (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • World Hunger: Peru (World Food Programme)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Peru (Google); Peru (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Peru (University of Texas, Austin)

For more information on Peru see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: Peru

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