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Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
República Oriental del Uruguay
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Constituciones (Uruguay. Podor Legislativo) includes 1934 to the present; in Spanish
- Uruguay: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) in Spanish
Executive
- Presidencia de la Republica
- Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
- Uruguay: Executive Institutions / Instituciones Executiva (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)
Judicial
- Suprema Corte de Justicia
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Poder Legislativo - Camara de Representantes and Poder Legislativo - Senadores (both in Spanish) - Offers access to the Constitution and a virtually all current national laws, plus major regulatory texts. These instruments and essays may be reached through:
- Legislacion (in Spanish) Offers present and most recent Constitutions (i.e., of 1967 and 1952), plus a comparative study. Provides copies of all of Uruguay's law codes, including its aviation, civil, commercial, customs, minerals, penal, tax, water codes; Code of Minors; and General Code of Procedure. Several major regulatory decrees, including those on administrative procedure, Social Security, taxation, and accounting standards, are also included.
- GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations, and literature
- Banco de Prevision Sociale [Social Security Bank]
- NATLEX: Uruguay (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Uruguay (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- FindLaw: Uruguay
- ForIntLaw: Uruguay (Washburn University Law Library)
- A Guide to Uruguay’s Legal System and Research (Pablo Sandonato de Leon via GlobaLex) September/October 2007
- Natural Resources Legislation: Uruguay (University of Denver College of Law)
- JURIST: Uruguay (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
- World Legal Materials from South America: Uruguay (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Uruguay (Library of Congress) December 1990
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
- Portals to the World: Uruguay (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Uruguay (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Uruguay (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: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Embassy of Uruguay, Washington
- Governments on the WWW: Uruguay (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Uruguay (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NEWS: BBC World Americas
- U.S. Embassy, Montevido (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Uruguay (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Uruguay (Google); Uruguay (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Uruguay (University of Texas, Austin)
Last Updated: 12/18/2008