Section of WorldLII's Countries service covering the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The site offers browse and search facilities including links to Government and Legislation sites for Mauritania. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to Mauritania on all of WorldLII. WorldLII is run by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.
The Mauritanian Constitution of 1991, provided by the International Constitutional Law (ICL) Project at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The document sets out the functions and powers of the main branches of government, including the judiciary, executive and legislative bodies. It also details the rights of individual citizens.
Website of the National Order of Lawyers in Mauritania (the Mauritania bar association). The site includes a list of members and copies of laws regulating the legal profession in Mauritania. Full text copies of a number of other laws and codes are available on the site covering criminal, social, commercial and civil law issues. The site can be viewed in Arabic only.
Collection of legal materials relating to business and company law in Mauritania made freely available online by Droit-Afrique.com a web portal to business law in French-speaking Africa. The site offers links to full text Mauritanian laws dealing with finance, taxation, customs, intellectual property, employment, investment and mining. There are also laws covering banking, insurance, property, maritime, company and criminal law. Additional links are given to government departments and regional organisations that Mauritania is a member of. The site is provided in French throughout.
Online guide to Mauritanian law written by Zelezeck Nguimatsa Serge who is a bi-jural (Civil and Common Law) lawyer currently completing a research fellowship on Lusophone legal systems in Maputo, Mozambique. The guide was published in August 2009 (and updated Kevashinee Pillay in 2022) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author provides historical background and political information on the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
