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

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 ARM

• Presidencia de la Republica
• Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
• Uruguay: Executive Institutions / Instituciones Executiva (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• 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
  • LAWS Provides a search engine for a databases comprised of all Uruguayan laws from January 1946 to the present, in html format. The search may be made either by law number or by a string search of the texts.
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 4,442 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from July 1967 to present
• Banco de Prevision Sociale [Social Security Bank] - Includes English version, with Agreements
• NATLEX: Uruguay (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: Uruguay (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Uruguay
• ForIntLaw: Uruguay (Washburn University Law Library)
• 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)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Uruguay () December 1990
• Handbook of Latin American Studies ()
• Portals to the World: Uruguay ()
• Background Notes: 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 Western Hemisphere / 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)