American Samoa

Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute

The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) provides free internet access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. Islands covered by the service include American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. A site search form allows specific database selection and query with boolean functionality.

Pacific Islands Treaty Series

A Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) resource containing bilateral and multilateral treaties affecting Pacific Island countries and last updated in 2009. The interface is available in English or French. Under "Other Resources", there is background information about each country and details of treaty-making procedures, along with a glossary of treaty terms. PacLII is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

American Samoa Government

Official website of the American Samoa Government. The site provides a profile of the Governor and contact details of American Samoa government departments and agencies. There is a selection of official government press releases back to 2004 and background information about the territory including history, geography, climate and population.

American Samoa Bar Association

Website of the American Samoa Bar Association. The 'Legal Resources' section of the website has freely available HTML versions of the American Samoa Constitution, the American Samoa Code and an alphabetical listing of High Court cases which link to the full-text. There is an online law Digest of American Samoa arranged by subject along with a copy of the 'Rules of Court of the Judiciary of American Samoa'. Each of these sections has a search facility.

Pacific Legal Gateway

The Pacific Legal Gateway is a PacLII project providing access to Pacific legal material. Its regional law collections include cases from the High Court of the Western Pacific, an index to Pacific islands cases published in Law Reports of the Commonwealth between 1980 and 2003, other cases from the region, and Western Pacific legislation 1884 to 1925. The gateway also includes several journals, a bibliography of law in the Pacific, details of law-related conferences and networks, links to legal news sources, legal dictionaries and other content.
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