Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: United Arab Emirates)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• 2 December 1971 (made permanent in 1996)

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President; Vice President; Council of Ministers; Federal Supreme Council

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Union Supreme Court

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-Ittihad al-Watani [Federal National Council]
• NATLEX: United Arab Emirates (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: United Arab Emirates (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: United Arab Emirates
• ForIntLaw: United Arab Emirates (Washburn University Law Library)
• Islamic Family Law: United Arab Emirates (Emory University Law School)
• Natural Resources Legislation: United Arab Emirates (University of Denver College of Law)
• World Law Index: United Arab Emirates (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Middle East: United Arab Emirates (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: United Arab Emirates () January 1993
• Background Notes: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Analysis Brief: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
• Country Information: United Arab Emirates (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: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Arab Emirates (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in United Arab Emirates (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Middle East
• Portals to the World: United Arab Emirates ()
• U.S. Embassy, Abu Dhabi (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: United Arab Emirates (Google); United Arab Emirates (Yahoo); Middle East Studies: United Arab Emirates (Columbia University); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: United Arab Emirates (University of Texas, Austin)