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

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constitution Government Proposals for Constitutional Reforms Presented to Parliament on 24.10.1997 (Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat, Policy Research & Information Unit)
• International Constitutional Law: Sri Lanka (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond Law School) English; PDF

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President
• Prime Minister
• Government
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs; includes policy statements

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the COURTS AND JUDICIARY Service Commission; Court of Appeals

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Prajatantrika Samajawadi Janarajaye Parlimentuwa
• NATLEX: Sri Lanka (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• Emergency Law Database: Sri Lanka (Queen's University at Belfast, Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights)
• Telecom Act of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission) available in Sinhala and Tamil

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Sri Lanka (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Islamic Family Law: Sri Lanka (Emory University Law School)
• JURIST: Sri Lanka (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Law Index: Sri Lanka (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Sri Lanka (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Sri Lanka () October 1988
• Portals to the World: Sri Lanka ()
• Background Notes: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Sri Lanka (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Sri Lanka (The Economist)
• Embassy of Sri Lanka, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Sri Lanka (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Sri Lanka (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Sri Lanka (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Sri Lanka - information (IFLA)
• NEWS: Sunday Times - Sri Lanka
• U.S. Embassy, Colombo (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Sri Lanka (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Sri Lanka (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Sri Lanka (Google); Sri Lanka (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Sri Lanka (University of Amsterdam)