The official website of the President of Albania includes information about the role the presidency and the cabinet. It is mostly written in Albanian but some information, including news, press releases and general information about Albania, are in English. Links are provided to the websites of the main government institutions in Albania. The website is frequently updated.
The Institute for Policy & Legal Studies, an Albanian non-profit, non- governmental organisation, has made available English language versions of current, previous and draft Constitutions, the Civil Code, Family Code and Code of Administrative Procedures.
Links to legal materials and law related Internet resources for the Republic of Albania presented on WorldLII's World Law Index and Search Service. Link collections provide access to sites dealing with Albania's Government and Legislation, supported by subject sections such as Elections, Environment, Foreign Investment and Land Law. Site help and on screen translation facilities are also available. World Law is run by the Australasian Legal Information Institute in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is a member of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and works to promote democracy and human rights within Europe. Its primary activites include the monitoring of parliamentary elections within the OSCE (Office for Security of Central Europe). The website includes the full-text of the Helsinki Committee's reports on parliamentary elections since 1995. These include reports from Albania, Romania, the former Yugoslavia and nations of the former Soviet Union. The text is available in Norwegian or English.
Official website of the Constitutional Court of Albania. The site provides background and historical information, profiles of members and an organisation chart. The relevant sections of the Constitution and other laws relating to the establishment, role and authority of the Court are also available. Judgments of the Constitutional Court can only be viewed in Albanian. Links are given to other Albanian governmental sites and other constitutional courts. The site is in English and Albanian.
Online guide to the Albanian legal system written by Mbaresa Veleshnja Gentry, an independent legal publisher. The guide was published in 2005 (and updated in 2019) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The guide provides general historical information and background to the legal system in Albania. There is an outline of the legislative process and information on the role of the executive and legislative bodies and the courts system.
Official website of the Albanian Council of Ministers, the executive body made up of the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and 18 ministers. The site provides biographical information about the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, background information about Albania and a full text copy of the Albanian Constitution. There are news items detailing the activities of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers.
This is the official website of the Parliament of Albania. It is offered in English, French or Albanian versions. The English language version provides background information on the history, role and current activities of the parliament. It includes access to the full-text of the constitution, a description of the legislative procedure, plus a listing of MPs and minsters, details about recent and forthcoming parliamentary business
This site contains the full-text of the 1998 Constitution of the Republic of Albania. This site is made freely available in English by International Constitutional Law (ICL) at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The Constitution deals with the role and functions of the People's Assembly, the President and the Council of Ministers. The site also provides historical and background information to the Constitution and the drafting process of the 1998 Constitution.
Website of the Albanian Legal Information Initiative, which is based in the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology. The initiative is part of the 'Rule of Law Through Technology' project, which seeks to increase access to legal information in Albania. The site describes the project and provides a selection of Albanian legal resources, including various treaties and statutes (in French and Turkish), the Albanian Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedural Code (both in English). Parts of the site are password-protected.
