Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Bahrain)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constitution of the Kindgom of Bahrain, 2002 (Bahrain) PDF; in Arabic; also available in English
• International Constitutional Law: Bahrain (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) provides the Constitution of 1973 and the 2002; with background notes

EXECUTIVE

• Government of Bahrain
• Bahrain Monetary Bank
• Ministry of Islamic Affairs

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: High Civil Appeals Court
• Bahrain: Rule of Law - Judiciary (United Nations Developement Programme - Programme on Governance in the Arab Region)

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Al-Jaridah Al-Rasmiyah
• PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-Shura [Consultative Council]
• Legislation and Regulations (Ministry of Education)
• NATLEX: Bahrain (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: Bahrain (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• ForIntLaw: Bahrain (Washburn University Law Library)
• Islamic Family Law: Bahrain (Emory University Law School)
• JURIST: Bahrain (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Bahrain (Germany Bundestag)
• World Legal Materials from the Middle East: Bahrain (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
• WWW-VL Islamic Law: Bahrain (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Bahrain () January 1993
• Portals to the World: Bahrain ()
• Background Notes: Bahrain (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Bahrain (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Bahrain (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Bahrain (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 and North Africa
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Bahrain (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Embassy of Bahrain, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Bahrain (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Bahrain (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Bahrain (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC Arabic; BBC World Middle East; Media and Communications: Bahrain ()
• U.S. Embassy, Manama (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Bahrain (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Bahrain (Google); Bahrain (Yahoo); Middle East Studies: Bahrain (Columbia University); WWW-VL Middle East Studies: Bahrain (University of Texas, Austin)