constitutional law

Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Official site of the Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. Provides background information about the instituion's history and structure and about political parties. Sections on chamber business and publications cover information about the progress of bills and provide the full text of Speakers’ Rulings, Resolutions and the Constitution; these are mainly in pdf format. A separate media section covers the texts of press releases, speeches in the National Assembly and links to international organisations.

The Constitution Society

The Constitution Society is an independent foundation, run by academic and practising lawyers, which seeks to encourage debate between academics, legislators, academics and the public about proposed constitutional reforms. It also provides administrative and clerical support for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the British Constitution (APPG). The Society’s website makes available its published papers, together with a collection of video interviews on constitutional matters with policy-makers and academics. The site also gives details of Constitution Society events.

Constitute

Free database of constitutions from around the world, provided by the Comparative Constitutions Project, which is based at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time of writing, the database contained the constitution that was in force in September 2013 for almost every independent state. Constitutional documents for countries that do not have a single written constitution are not yet available, but will be added, as will historical verisons of constitutions. The Constitute database can be browsed by topic or country, or searched by key word.

UK Constitutional Law Association

The United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA) is a group for constitutional law scholars in the UK, affiliated to the International Association of Constitutional Law. The Association organises seminars and conferences, which are detailed on the website. It is also setting up a group for UK PhD students researching public law. The website includes a constitutional law blog, edited by Nick Barber from the University of Oxford and Jeff King from University College London.

Head of Legal

Blog by law lecturer, consultant and non-practising barrister Carl Gardner, who is based in London. Provides commentary on legal developments in their political and social context, mainly focusing on public, constitutional, human rights and European law.

Devolution Matters

Blog by Alan Trench, Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster, about devolution in the UK. Includes numerous posts on the Scottish independence referendum of 2014. Provides a briefing called ‘Devolution: the basics’ as well as information about the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula and the Sewel Convention. The blog features Trench’s Twitter feed and also offers RSS feeds for new blog posts and comments.

Bolivian legal framework

Online guide to the law of Bolivia written by Gonzalo Dávila Maceda who is director of a Bolivian based Legal Counselling Office. The article was published in 2018 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 article provides background information on the organisation of the state and the 2009 Constitution highlighting the different branches of government and the territorial and economic structures of the state.

Supreme Judicial Council

This website of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) provides information in Bulgarian and English. Details of the history, composition and administration of the SJC are given. Links are provided to the English version of the Constitution of Bulgaria, Judicial System Act, Regulation of the Supreme Judicial Council, and the bylaws of the SJC. Lists of Bulgaria’s judicial districts, district and administrative courts, and prosecutors’ officers are provided.

Legalis Platform

This website provides full-text files of the legal agenda in Turkey in recent years as well as legislative documents (often sourced from government websites) relating to a wide variety of topics such as administrative regulation, arbitration, employment, telecommunications, the judiciary system, trade, tax, trademarks, and environmental practice. Also provides sample legal documents relating to sales, partnership, merger, rental, employment and trademark agreements. Both the website and documents are available in English and Turkish.

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