Samoa
Independent State of Samoa / Samoa i Sisifo
(formerly: Western Samoa)
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
Executive
- Chief; Prime Minister; Cabinet; see Government (PacLII)
Judicial
- COURTS: Supreme Court; Court of Appeal
- PacLII Databases: Samoa - includes judgments of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and some from the Supreme Court of New Zealand; and Indexes to Western Samoa Law Reports also included
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Fono (Legislative Assembly)
- PacLII Databases: Samoa - includes legislation
- NATLEX: Samoa (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Samoa (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Samoa (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- ForIntLaw: Samoa (Washburn University Law Library)
- Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources (Ruth Bird, via LLRX)
- PacLII Databases: Samoa
- UPDATE: Introduction to Researching South Pacific Law (Peter Murgatroyd)
- World Legal Information Institute: Samoa (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Australasia: Samoa (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Background Note: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Samoa (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Human Rights in Western Samoa (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NEWS: BBC World Asia-Pacific
- World Factbook: Samoa (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Yahoo: Samoa
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Last Updated: 01/29/2012
