São Tomé and Príncipe: Legal System and Research
Online guide to the law of São Tomé and Príncipe, an island in the Gulf of Guinea, written by Kevashinee Pillay, a South Africa-based attorney, and Nélia Daniel Dias, a law lecturer in Angola. The guide was published in 2018 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The authors give a profile of São Tomé and Príncipe and an introduction to the island’s legal system, which is based on customary law and the civil law tradition.