Micronesia

Asian and Pacific Law Guide

A legal research guide for Asia and the Pacific region, created by the library at the University of Sydney. Includes regional legal information as well as covering twenty-five individual jurisdictions. For each jurisdiction, there are annotated links to sources of legislation and cases, information about the legal system, information relating to international law (such as participation in treaties), and links to research guides.  

Yap state court decisions

Forming part of the PACLII website, this database contains electronic versions of selected decisions of the Yap State court in Micronesia. Cases can be browsed by year or alphabetically, or the ‘search databases’ link can be followed to allow for searching across the dataset.

Government of the Federated States of Micronesia

The website of the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), its departments, and overseas missions, hosted by the FSM mission to the United Nations in New York. Site contains both current and archived government press releases, information and contact details for government offices and officials at both federal and state level, and a list of all multilateral treaties which FSM have ratified.

World Law: Micronesia

Section of WorldLII's World Law service covering the Federated States of Micronesia. A range of browse and search features are available on the site. Browse sections highlight links relating to government, legislation, parliament, courts and introductions to Micronesian law. A collection of stored searches will automatically search for materials relating to Micronesia on all of World Law. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

Legal Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia

Website of the Legal Information System (LIS) of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a project of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia. The aim of the project is to improve public access to legal materials of the FSM. The site has information about the FSM National Government and the four states that make up the Federated States of Micronesia- Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap providing access to constitutions, codes, regulations, court decisions and rules.

Compact of Free Association

Website providing information about, and a full-text copy of, the Compact of Free Association between the United States of America, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The information is made freely available by the Joint Committee on Compact Economic Negotiations and includes the Compact itself (with amendments), the Compact as signed in 1982 and various related agreements. PDF documents only

Pohnpei State Court Decisions

A PacLII database containing selected case decisions (from 1985 to 1995) of the Pohnpei State Court in the Federated States of Micronesia. Full search and browse options are provided. PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, provides free Internet access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. PacLII is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Kosrae State Court Decisions

A PacLII database containing selected case decisions (from 1985 to 2007) of the Kosrae State Court in the Federated States of Micronesia. Full search and browse options are provided. PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, provides free Internet access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. PacLII is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Chuuk State Court Decisions

A PacLII database containing selected case decisions of the Chuuk State Court (previously known as the Truk State Court) in the Federated States of Micronesia. Cases are included for the years 1985 to 2007. Full search and browse options are provided. PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, provides free Internet access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. PacLII is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Supreme Court of Federated States of Micronesia Decisions

A PacLII database containing selected decisions of the Supreme Court of Micronesia from 1981 onwards. The cases can be browsed by year or name, and there is a search facility.  PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, provides free access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific; it is joint initiative of the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

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