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Puerto Rico
(Commonwealth Associated with the United States)
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Angel M. Villamil Rodríguez) in English
- Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (Rama Judicial de Puerto Rico) in Spanish
- International Constitutional Law: Puerto Rico (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers background information and links
Executive
- Gobernador de Puerto Rico
- Government
- Oficina del Contralor de Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration
- Departmento de Transportacion y Obras Publicas
Judicial
- Supreme Court - includes decisions from 1998 in RTF; see also LEXJURIS, MICROJURIS, and Publicaciones JTS
- Tribunal General de Justica de Puerto Rico - includes information in Spanish about the Supreme Court, Superior Courts, and Municipal Courts; and leyes y reglamentos
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (U.S. Courts)
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (Emory Law School) November 1995-
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (FindLaw) November 1995-
- U.S. District Court, Puerto Rico - includes rules, forms, bar admission, the Pro Se Litigant Guidebook and other court information
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Senado / Senate
- Laws of Puerto Rico (Michie)
- Leyes de Puerto Rico (Michie)
- U.S. House of Representatives:
- Resident Commissioner Luis G. Fortuño
- Committee on Resources
- United States Code:
- 48 U.S.C.§731 et seq. (U.S. House of Representative)
- 48 U.S.C.§731 et seq. (U.S. Government Printing Office)
- 48 U.S.C.§731 et seq. (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
- Rules of the U.S. House (U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk) includes Rule III: The Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in PDF and Text
Legal Guides
- Biblioteca Jurídica Puertorriqueña (Evelyn Ortiz)
- Doing Business in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company)
- Elections in Puerto Rico / Elecciones en Puerto Rico (Manuel Álvarez-Rivera, ElectionResources.org)
- LEXJURIS in Spanish
- MICROJURIS - Puerto Rico
- McConnell Valdes: Web Resources
- STATEHOOD / SELF-DETERMINATION:
- CRS Report 97-526 - Puerto Rico: A Chronology of Political Status History - available to the public via University of North Texas
- Hearing on H.R. 4751, Puerto Rico-United States Bilateral Pact of Non-Territorial Permanent Union and Guaranteed Citizenship Act (U.S. Committee on Resources) Committee Print, Serial No. 107-C, October 4, 2000.
- Publicaciones JTS
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS:
- Guide: U.S. States & Territories: Legal Links (Law Library of Congress)
- American Law Sources On-line: Puerto Rico
- FindLaw: Puerto Rico
- Georgetown University Law Library: Puerto Rico
- LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center: Puerto Rico (University of Texas at Austin)
- LexisOne: Puerto Rico
General Sources
- Portals to the World: Puerto Rico (Library of Congress)
- Government on the WWW: Puerto Rico (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Puerto Rico (Amnesty International)
- Biblioteca Nacional - Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
- Puerto Rico Libraries (LIBCAT)
- NEWS: El Nuevo Día Interactivo
- State and Local Government on the Net: Puerto Rico (State Local Gov)
- World Factbook: Puerto Rico (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Puerto Rico (Google); Puerto Rico (Yahoo)
Last Updated: 01/02/2009