Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL (includes LC Portals: Samoa)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RESOURCE

• Constitution of the Independent Lawyer Information and Law Firm Research Links for The State of Western Samoa (PacLII)

EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT BRANCH

• Chief; Prime Minister; Cabinet; see Government (PacLII)

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Supreme Court; Court of Appeal
• PacLII Databases: Samoa - includes judgments of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and some from the Supreme Court of New Zealand; and Indexes to Western Samoa Law Reports also included

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Fono (Legislative Assembly)
• PacLII Databases: Samoa - includes legislation
• NATLEX: Samoa (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND REGIONAL SPECIFIC LAWS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Samoa (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• ForIntLaw: Samoa (Washburn University Law Library)
• Introduction to Researching South Pacific Law (Peter Murgatroyd, via GlobaLex) June 2006
• Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources (Ruth Bird, via LLRX) April 15, 2002
• PacLII Databases: Samoa
• World Law Index: Samoa (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Australasia: Samoa (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERALIZED SOURCE MATERIAL

• Portals to the World: Samoa ()
• Background Notes: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Samoa, Independent Lawyer Information and Law Firm Research Links for The State of (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Samoa (Gunnar Anzinger)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Samoa (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Asia-Pacific
• World Factbook: Samoa (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Samoa (Google); Samoa (Yahoo); WWW-VL Pacific Studies (Australian National University)