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

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constitución Política de Costa Rica (CESDEPU - Centro de Estudios Superiores de Derecho Publico) in Spanish
• Costa Rica: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) Includes the 1949 Constitution and 2003 reforms; in Spanish
• International Constitutional Law: Costa Rica Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) includes background information and links to constitutions elsewhere

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Casa Presidencial
• Government of Costa Rica

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones

LEGISLATIVE

• OFFICIAL GAZETTE: La Gaceta, Diario Oficial
• PARLIAMENT: Asamblea Legislativa
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 4,375 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 1957 to the present; with full-text access
• Normas Basicas de Derecho Publico (CESDEPU - Centro de Estudios Superiores de Derecho Publico) offers updated and consolidated full texts in Spanish of the constitution and laws; in Spanish
• NATLEX: Costa Rica (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: Costa Rica (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Costa Rica Legal Net (Legal Guide to Costa Rica) includes laws, regulations, forms, and real estate information
• FindLaw: Costa Rica
• ForIntLaw: Costa Rica (Washburn University Law Library)
• Guide to Legal Research in Costa Rica (Roger A. Petersen, via GlobaLex) October 2005
• World Law Index: Costa Rica (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from North America: Costa Rica (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Handbook of Latin American Studies ()
• Portals to the World: Costa Rica ()
• Background Notes: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Costa Rica (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
• 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: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Costa Rica (Gunnar Anzinger)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Costa Rica (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Nacional - information (IFLA)
• NEWS: BBC World Americas
• U.S. Embassy, San José (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Costa Rica (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Costa Rica (Google); Costa Rica (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Costa Rica (University of Texas, Austin)