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United Arab Emirates
Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah
(formerly: Trucial States - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al Khaimah, Sharjah (including Kalba), and Umm al Qaiwain)
Constitution
- 2 December 1971 (made permanent in 1996)
Executive
- President; Vice President; Council of Ministers; Federal Supreme Council
Judicial
- COURTS: Union Supreme Court
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-Ittihad al-Watani [Federal National Council] (external link)
- NATLEX: United Arab Emirates (external link) (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: United Arab Emirates (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- FindLaw: United Arab Emirates (external link)
- ForIntLaw: United Arab Emirates (external link) (Washburn University Law Library)
- A Guide to United Arab Emirates Legal System (external link) (Ahmed Aly Khedr & Bassam Alnuaimi via GlobaLex)
- Islamic Family Law: United Arab Emirates (external link) (Emory University Law School)
- World Legal Information Institute: United Arab Emirates (external link) (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Middle East: United Arab Emirates (external link) (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: United Arab Emirates (Library of Congress) January 1993
- Background Note: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Analysis Brief: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
- Country Information: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Human Rights in United Arab Emirates (external link) (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Middle East Studies: United Arab Emirates (external link) (Columbia University)
- NEWS: BBC World Middle East (external link)
- U.S. Embassy, Abu Dhabi (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: United Arab Emirates (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Yahoo: United Arab Emirates (external link)
Last Updated: 07/30/2012
