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Puerto Rico
(Commonwealth Associated with the United States)

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

Constitution

• Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Angel M. Villamil Rodríguez) in English
• Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (Rama Judicial de Puerto Rico) in Spanish
• International Constitutional Law: Puerto Rico (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers background information and links

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Executive

• Gobernador de Puerto Rico
• Government
• Oficina del Contralor de Puerto Rico
• Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration
• Departmento de Transportacion y Obras Publicas

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Judicial

• Supreme Court - includes decisions from 1998 in RTF; see also LEXJURIS, MICROJURIS, and Publicaciones JTS
• Tribunal General de Justica de Puerto Rico - includes information in Spanish about the Supreme Court, Superior Courts, and Municipal Courts; and leyes y reglamentos
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (U.S. Courts)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (Emory Law School) November 1995-
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (FindLaw) November 1995-
• U.S. District Court, Puerto Rico - includes rules, forms, bar admission, the Pro Se Litigant Guidebook and other court information

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Legislative

• PARLIAMENT: Senado / Senate
• U.S. House of Representatives:
  • Resident Commissioner Luis G. Fortuño
  • Committee on Resources
• United States Code:
  • 48 U.S.C.§731 et seq. (U.S. House of Representative)
  • 48 U.S.C.§731 et seq. (U.S. Government Printing Office)
  • 48 U.S.C.§731 et seq. (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
• Rules of the U.S. House (U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk) includes Rule III: The Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in PDF and Text

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Legal Guides

• Biblioteca Jurídica Puertorriqueña (Evelyn Ortiz)
• Doing Business in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company)
• Elections in Puerto Rico / Elecciones en Puerto Rico (Manuel Álvarez-Rivera, ElectionResources.org)
• LEXJURIS in Spanish
• MICROJURIS - Puerto Rico
• McConnell Valdes: Web Resources
• STATEHOOD / SELF-DETERMINATION:
  • CRS Report 97-526 - Puerto Rico: A Chronology of Political Status History - available to the public via Counting California
  • Hearing on H.R. 4751, Puerto Rico-United States Bilateral Pact of Non-Territorial Permanent Union and Guaranteed Citizenship Act (U.S. Committee on Resources) Committee Print, Serial No. 107-C, October 4, 2000.
• Publicaciones JTS
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS:
  • Guide: U.S. States & Territories: Legal Links (Law Library of Congress)
  • American Law Sources On-line: Puerto Rico
  • FindLaw: Puerto Rico
  • Georgetown University Law Library: Puerto Rico
  • LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center: Puerto Rico (University of Texas at Austin)
  • LexisOne: Puerto Rico

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General Sources

• Portals to the World: Puerto Rico (Library of Congress)
• Government on the WWW: Puerto Rico (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Puerto Rico (Amnesty International)
• Biblioteca Nacional - Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
• Puerto Rico Libraries (LIBCAT)
• NEWS: El Nuevo Día Interactivo
• State and Local Government on the Net: Puerto Rico (State Local Gov)
• World Factbook: Puerto Rico (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Puerto Rico (Google); Puerto Rico (Yahoo)

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Last Updated: 12/18/2008