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

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Brazil: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) includes the current (1988 with 2005 reforms) and historic editions in Portuguese; with an older edition (1988 with 2003 reforms) in English
• Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil (Brazil. Senate) includes the 1988 edition with current reforms in Portuguese
• International Constitutional Law: Brazil (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes Constitution and updates in English and background notes

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Government of Brazil
• Presidência da República

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Supremo Tribunal Federal [Supreme Constitutional Court]; Superior Tribunal de Justiça [Superior Court of Justice]
• Ministry of Justice
• Jurisprudência Online (CD-Graf Publicações Eletrônicas Ltda) in Portuguese; offers links to Brazilian federal court system and decisions, including Direct Actions on Unconstitutionality ("ADINs")

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Diário Oficial
• PARLIAMENT: Câmara dos Deputados [Chamber of Deputies] and Senado Federal [Federal Senate]
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 11,839 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1950 to present, with full-text access
• Legislação Federal Brasileira (Brazil. Senado Federal) provides full-text access to the Constitution, federal Codes and major laws
• NATLEX: Brazil (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• E-Transaction Law Resources: Brazil (Baker & McKenzie)
• Natural Resources Legislation: Brazil (University of Denver College of Law)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Brazil (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Doing Legal Research in Brazil (Edilenice Passos, via GlobaLex) February 2005
• FindLaw: Brazil
• ForIntLaw: Brazil (Washburn University Law Library)
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Brazil (New York University Law Library)
• COURTS AND JUDICIARY Assistance: Taking Depositions in Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
• JURIST: Brazil (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Brazil (Germany Bundestag)
• World Law Index: Brazil (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from South America: Brazil (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Brazil () April 1997
• Handbook of Latin American Studies ()
• Portals to the World: Brazil ()
• United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (Legal Issues / Brazil Biblioteca Nacional)
• Background Notes: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Brazil (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Profile of Brazil (U.S. Dept. of Labor) - excerpt from By The Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress, Volume I (July 15, 1994)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Western Hemisphere
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Brazil (The Economist)
• Embassy of Brazil, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Brazil (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Brazil (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Brazil (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional
• NEWS: BBC World Americas; BBC Portuguese
• U.S. Embassy, Brasilia (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Brazil (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Brazil (Google); Brazil (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Brazil (University of Texas, Austin)