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Sri Lanka
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajawadi Janarajaya
Ilangai Jananayage Socialisak Kudiarasu
(formerly: Ceylon)
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Constitution Government Proposals for Constitutional Reforms Presented to Parliament on 24.10.1997 (Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat, Policy Research & Information Unit)
- International Constitutional Law: Sri Lanka (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only
- Constitution Finder (University of Richmond Law School) English; PDF
Executive
- President
- Prime Minister
- Government
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs; includes policy statements
Judicial
- Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the Judicial Service Commission; Court of Appeals
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Prajatantrika Samajawadi Janarajaye Parlimentuwa
- NATLEX: Sri Lanka (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
- Telecom Act of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission) available in Sinhala and Tamil
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Monitor: Sri Lanka (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Sri Lanka (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- AsianLII: Sri Lanka (Asian Legal Information Institute)
- Islamic Family Law: Sri Lanka (Emory University Law School)
- JURIST: Sri Lanka (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
- Sri Lanka: Legal Research and Legal System (Aquinas V. Tambimuttu via GlobaLex)
- World Legal Information Institute: Sri Lanka (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Asia: Sri Lanka (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Sri Lanka (Library of Congress) October 1988
- Portals to the World: Sri Lanka (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Sri Lanka (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Economic Briefing: Sri Lanka (The Economist)
- Embassy of Sri Lanka, Washington
- Governments on the WWW: Sri Lanka (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Sri Lanka (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Sri Lanka - information (IFLA)
- NEWS: Sunday Times - Sri Lanka
- U.S. Embassy, Colombo (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Sri Lanka (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Hunger: Sri Lanka (World Food Programme)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Sri Lanka (Google); Sri Lanka (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Sri Lanka (University of Amsterdam)
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Last Updated: 03/19/2009