The Truth Commission Digital Collection forms part of the Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management at the United States Institute of Peace. There are profiles of truth commissions and commissions of inquiry set up in different countries with background information, details of members, links to establishing documents and each commission's final reports and findings. Sources of information for each profile are also given.
Chilean legislation website, provided free of charge by the Library of the Chilean National Congress. Includes the current and historical Chilean codes and constitutions, treaties ratified by Chile and a collection of important individual laws arranged by subject. Simple and advanced search facilities are available, or the site can be browsed by collection (Constitutions, Codes, Treaties, or Laws by Subject). The entire site is in Spanish.
The Constituciones Hispanoamericas website provides free online access to Spanish constitutions (both current and historical) and those of Latin American countries. The site forms part of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes digital library which is hosted by the University of Alicante in Spain. As well as the catalogue of constitutions and related documents there is background and historical information on Spanish and Latin American constitutionalism and a page of related web links. The site is available in Spanish only.
Article explaining the writ of Amparo, a form of protection of individual human rights used in Latin American jurisdictions. The article was written by Gloria Orrego Hoyos who is the Legal Reference Librarian and Professor of Law and Legal Research at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. The article was published in 2013 (and updated in 2023) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law.
Official site of the Congreso Nacionale Chile (Chilean National Parliament). The Parliament comprises the ‘Cámara de Senadores’ Senate (Upper House) and the ‘Cámara de Diputados’ (Chamber of Deputies). The section of the site relating to the Upper House provides background information about the structure of the Senate and about individual committees covering different subject areas and the status of bills currently in progress. Full-text access is also available to the Fundamental law of the Chilean Parliament (Ley Orgánica) and to the Chilean Constitution.
Library of the Congreso Nacionale Chile (Chilean National Parliament). Provides a service not only to members of Parliament but also to the wider community. Acts as an official repository for Parliamentary archives. The website provides full-text access, mainly in PDF format, to laws, codes and current and historic versions of the Constitution. Public users can search the catalogue and also browse or download documents in PDF and podcasts in MP3 format, which are designed to inform them about aspects of parliamentary procedure, including the creation of laws and popular legal issues.
Chile section of WorldLII's Countries service. A full range of browse and search features are available on the site. Browse sections highlight links relating to: Education, Government, Legislation, and Parliament. Further subject areas include: Elections, Indigenous Law, Infrastructure, and Intellectual Property. A collection of stored searches will automatically search for materials relating to Chile on all of WorldLII. WorldLII was created and is being developed by the Australasian Legal Information Institute as a public service.
Online guide to Chilean law written by Sergio Endress G¥mez who is a lawyer and Professor of Taxation and Trial Taxation at the School of Law of the Universidad de Chile. The guide was published in 2005 and updated in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The guide provides an introduction to the Chilean legal system looking at the structure of government, the types of legislation and the court system including information on the various courts in Chile.
Report by the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), looking at the legal frameworks for access to judicial information (including freedom of information laws) in the following Latin American countries: Argentina; Chile; Colombia; the Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Honduras; Mexico; Panama; Peru and Uruguay. For each country there is information on the availability of administrative information (financial, statistical and personnel) and case law. The report also outlines the legal instruments that provide access to information and looks at how the information is provided.
Official website of the Constitutional Court of Chile, whose role is to review the constitutionality of laws. Provides background information about the court and details of its composition, court rules, a link to the Constitution, cause lists and minutes of proceedings. The 'Sentencias' section has judgments delivered in the last 30 days or so and the 'Informes en Derecho' section provides judgments back to 1969. The site is in Spanish only.
