Website of the unicameral National Assembly of Venezuela (Asamblea Nacional) which is composed solely of a Chamber of Deputies. The site has profiles of the deputies and information on the make up and work of the various committees. Laws dating back to the early twentieth century can be viewed in full and there are national and international news items. The site can be viewed in Spanish only.
Official site of the Venezuelan Association of Maritime Law (AVDM). Gives background information about the organisation including its history, membership, mission, vision and code of ethics. The organisation is committed to the study, development, reform and dissemination of maritime law. Full-text access is available to documents and legislation related to the Organisation. The Publications section consists of a collection of free e-books (some in English) and serials on Venezuelan and international maritime law, presented in the form of a clickable bookshelf.
Full text of tthe 1999 Constitution of Venezuela with amendments to 2009, the original 1999 Constitution and the 1961 Constitution with the 1983 amendments, all in Spanish. Part of the Political Database of the Americas, which is administered by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University in the United States.
Links to legal materials for the Republic of Venezuela presented on WorldLII's Countries service. Link collections provide access to materials relating to Venezuela's Courts, Government, Legislation and Parliament. Additional sections highlight subject areas such as Competition Law, Foreign Investment, Consumer Protection, Elections, Indigenous Law and Privatisation. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to Venezuela on all of WorldLII supported by a remote site search facility.
The official gazette of Venezuela is available on the website of the Venezuelan Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo de Justicia) from 2000 onwards, in Spanish. It publishes laws, presidential decrees, and the resolutions and decisions of government departments.
WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) database of court decisions in the Spanish language, covering the Central American Court of Justice, the Court of Justice of the Andean Community, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, NAFTA and the Mexican and Venezuela domain names tribunals. WorldLII is a legal information portal developed by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and a number of partner institutions (BAILII, AustLII, HKLII, CanLII, NZLII). The search interface and contents are all in Spanish.
Online guide to government and primary legal materials of Venezuela written by Luis Bergolla a J.S.D. candidate Stanford Law School and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. The guide was published in 2006 (and updated 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 background information to Venezuela and descriptions of the various forms of government including the executive, legislative, judicial, citizen and electoral powers.
