Constitution

• Iraqi Legislative Database: Constitution (external link) (UNDP) in Arabic
• International Constitutional Law: Iraq Index (external link) (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the older 1990 and 2004 constitutions plus Background Note, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information

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Executive

• President; Prime Minister; see Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Iraq (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WorldLII's Iraq Government (external link)
• Coalition Provisional Authority (external link)

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Judicial

• Background Note: Iraq (U.S. Dept. of State) includes a description of the judicial branch, which includes the Higher Judicial Council, Federal Supreme Court, Federal Court of Cassation, Public Prosecution Department, and Judiciary Oversight Commission
• Iraq Special Tribunal (external link) (Internet Archive)
• Trial of Saddam Hussein (Law Library of Congress)
• CNN Special Report: Saddam Hussein On Trial (external link) (CNN)

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Legislative

• PARLIAMENT: unicameral Council of Representatives
• Iraqi Legal Database (external link) (UNDP) in Arabic
• GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations
• NATLEX: Iraq (external link) (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

• Global Legal Information Catalog: Iraq (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Global Legal Monitor: Iraq (Law Library of Congress)
• Iraq: Legal History and Traditions (Law Library of Congress)
• Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
• ForIntLaw: Iraq (external link) (Washburn University Law Library)
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Iraq (external link) (Deutscher Bundestag)
• World Legal Information Institute: Iraq (external link) (WorldLII)
• World Legal Materials from Middle East: Iraq (external link) (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

• Countries of the Near East Section: Iraq (Library of Congress)
• Country Study: Iraq (Library of Congress) May 1988
• Places in the News: Iraq (Library of Congress)
• Background Note: Iraq (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Iraq (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Iraq (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Iraq (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Profile: Iraq (external link) (BBC)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Iraq (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economist: Iraq (external link)
• Human Rights in Iraq (external link) (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Reports: Iraq (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Middle East Studies: Iraq (external link) (Columbia University)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library and Archives (external link)
• NEWS: BBC World Middle East (external link)
• U.S. Embassy, Baghdad (U.S. Dept. of State)
• UCB Libraries GovPubs: Iraq (external link) (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• World Factbook: Iraq (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Iraq (external link) (World Food Programme)
• Yahoo: Iraq (external link)

For more information on Iraq see:

• Global Legal Monitor: Iraq
• Iraq: Legal History and Traditions
• Iraq: Saddam Hussein Trial

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Last Updated: 08/09/2012