Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Oman)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• International Constitutional Law: Oman Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the current constitution plus background notes, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Sultan/Prime Minister
• State Council
• Ministry of Commerce and Industry

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Supreme Court

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Al-Jaridah al-Rasmiyah
• PARLIAMENT: Majlis Oman; includes the Majlis ad-Dawla (upper chamber) and the Majlis ash-Shura (lower chamber)
• NATLEX: Oman (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Oman (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Islamic Family Law: Oman (Emory University Law School)
• World Law Index: Oman (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Middle East: Oman (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Oman () January 1993
• Portals to the World: Oman ()
• Background Notes: Oman (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Oman (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Oman (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Analysis Brief: Oman (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
• Country Information: Oman (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Near East / North Africa
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Oman (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Oman (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Oman (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Oman (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Service Middle East
• U.S. Embassy, Muscat (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Oman (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Oman (Google); Oman (Yahoo); Middle East Studies: Oman (Columbia University); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Oman (University of Texas, Austin)