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.
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.
Part of WorldLII's Countries service covering the Republic of Ecuador. A full range of browse and search features are provided. Link collections include materials relating to the Government, Legislation and Courts with specific subject sections dealing with Foreign Investment, Indigenous Law and International Trade. A stored search will automatically query all of WorldLII for items about Ecuador. WorldLII is run by the Australasian Legal Information Institute in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) is an intergovernmental organisation promoting the growth of democracy worldwide. It is based in Sweden and has offices in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The website has background information its work and details of databases, networks and publications. Sections of the site cover work in the areas of electoral processes, political parties, constitution building, democracy and gender, state of democracy and democracy and conflict.
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.
Revista Judicial is website providing free access to Ecuadorian legal information. Copies of the Official Gazette are available to download in full text back to 2000. A collection of articles by legal scholars and practitioners are arranged by legal subject on the site along with a selection of forms and contracts to download.A full text copy of the Constitution, Civil Code and laws of the National Constituent Assembly are also provided. There are links to legal notices from the provinces and to sites providing access to Ecuadorian laws. The site is available in Spanish only.
Guide to the legal system of Ecuador by Juan Andres Fuentes, Librarian for Foreign, Comparative & International Law at Harvard Law School. Published on New York University's Globalex website and updated periodically, it covers the Constitution, the Constitutional Court and the structure of government, examining the role of the National Congress, the President, the judicial branch and local government.
WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) database of court decisions in the Spanish language, covering the Central American Court of Justice, the Court of Justice of the Andean Community, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, NAFTA and the Mexican and Venezuela domain names tribunals. WorldLII is a legal information portal developed by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and a number of partner institutions (BAILII, AustLII, HKLII, CanLII, NZLII). The search interface and contents are all in Spanish.
