Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Holy See)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Apostolic Constitution of 1967 (effective 1 March 1968)
• Code of Canon Law (Holy See/Vatican)

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Vatican: The Holy See - official web site; available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Three tribunals responsible for civil and criminal matters within Vatican City; three other tribunals rule on issues pertaining to the Holy See. COURTS AND JUDICIARY duties were established by the Motu Proprio of Pius XII on 1 May 1946 [from the World Factbook]

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: unicameral Pontifical Commission
• Fundamental Law of the Lawyer Information and Law Firm Research Links for The State of Vatican City (Vatican City State) - in Italian, German, and Portuguese

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Holy See (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• ForIntLaw: Vatican City (Washburn University Law Library)
• JURIST: Vatican City (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Micro-States and Small Jurisdictions of Europe: Vatican State (Holy See) (Andrew Grossman, via LLRX) October 1, 2001
• World Law Index: Vatican City State (Australasian Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Portals to the World: Holy See ()
• Background Notes: The Holy See (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Holy See (Lawyer Information and Law Firm Research Links for The State of the Vatican City) (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Italy, Holy See, and San Marino (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Holy See (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Vatican (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Vatican (Amnesty International)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
• National Libraries of Europe: Vatican City (European Library)
• NEWS: BBC World Europe
• Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the UN
• U.S. Embassy to the Holy See (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Holy See (Vatican City) (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Vatican City (Google); Vatican City (Yahoo); WWW-VL West European Studies: Vatican City (University of Pittsburgh)