Portugal

Centro de Estudos Judiciários

The Portuguese Centro de Estudos Judiciários was set up under the auspices of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice to train judges and public prosecutors and to carry out research on judicial matters. Information about the Centre's constitution and work are provided, as well as details of publications, including the contents pages of its journal, the Revista do CEJ. Some publications are available in full, notably its studies and annual report. The site is mainly in Portuguese, but basic information about the Centre is available in English.

Ministério da Justiça (Portugal) - Bases Jurídico-Documentais

Several case law databases are provided here by the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. Details of decisions and agreements are available from the Office of the Attorney General, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court, the Courts of Lisbon and Oporto, and the Constitutional Court. The texts and presentation throughout are in Portuguese. The page also offers selected bibliographic data from Portuguese law libraries.

Diário da República

Diário da República, the Portuguese official gazette, is available free on this website. It is now published in two series: legislation appears in Series I and administrative actions in Series II. Series III, which has ceased publication, used to publish official notices. Series I is available from 1910 onwards; Series II from 1990 onwards; and Series III from 1943 to mid-2006 . The site is in Portuguese.

Constitution of Portugal

The text of the 1976 Portuguese Constitution updated to 1989, provided in English by the International Constitutional Law (ICL) project at the University of Bern in Switzerland.The site also offers brief historical information about the constitution. There are links to information about constitutional revisions on Portuguese websites.

Legal research in Portugal: a guide

Online guide to researching the law of Portugal, by Portuguese lawyer Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas, updated by Raquel Ferreira Pedrosa Alves. Published on New York University's Globalex website and updated periodically, it gives background information about the Constitution and government and covers the sources of Portuguese law, including legislation and cases, with links to court websites and the most important legal codes. Links are given to law schools, legal journals and major legal publishers, and there are references to books on Portuguese law.

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