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Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North)
Kiribati
Korea, Republic of (South)
Kyrgyzstan
Kuwait
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lebanon
Latvia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania

Kazakhstan

Constitution

Law and Legislation

  • Laws (LexInfoSys from University of Bremen): In Russian and English.
  • Selected Laws (Golden Eagle Services): In English and Russian.
  • Selected Laws (customs-info.kz): In Russian.

Laws by Subject

  • Central Banks (NYU Center for the Study of Central Banks): In English.
  • Commercial (BISNIS): Scroll down to "Legal and Regulatory" where there are some acts in English.
  • Election (University of Essex).
  • Immigration (IOM): In English.
  • Media (Internews): Sections of constitution, codes, laws and other legal acts that pertain to the media.  In English.

Government

Subscription Database

  • Zakon (Zakon.kz): Legal database in Russian.

Other

  • Kazakhstan The Asian Development Bank provides a number of fact sheets, country reports, project summaries including legal initiatives and more. (Asian Development Bank).

Kenya

Constitution

Laws by Subject

Jurisprudence

  • Law Reports Official law reports of the Republic of Kenya.

Government

  • State House (official website): Presidential news, speeches and other information.

Other

Subscription Databases

  • LawAfrica (Lawtel Africa): Includes cases from Kenyan courts and legislation.

Kiribati

Constitution

Laws and Legislation

  • Kiribati Contains links to case law and legislation. (PACLII)

Other

  • Kiribati The Asian Development Bank provides a number of fact sheets, country reports, project summaries including legal initiatives and more. (Asian Development Bank).

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (North)

Constitution

Legislation

  • Laws of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (NovexCn.com) In english.
    Includes: Arbitration Law, Commercial Joint Venture Law, Constitutional Law,
    Customs Law, Economic Plans, Fisheries Law, Foreign Enterprises Law,
    Foreign Investment Law, Free Trade Ports/ Economic Trade Zones, Immigration/Emigration Law,
    Labour Law, Tax Law.

Laws by Subject

  • Agriculture (Article by article description, in English) (The People's Korea).
  • Arbitration (Article by article description, in English) (The People's Korea).
  • Economic Plans (Article by article description, in English) (The People's Korea).
  • Fish Breeding Law (Article by article description, in English) (The People's Korea).

Government

Other

Korea, Republic of (South)

Constitution

Legislation

  • Comprehensive Legal Information Service System (Ministry of Legislation) (Korean and English). This website includes an on-line database of legislative information and court cases. Contains a variety of Acts, regulations, court cases, and books on jurisprudence. Information is searchable by word/phrase, subject term, amendment number, title, case number and more.
  • Economic laws on foreign investment in Korea.(Ministry of Legislation : Korea Legislation Research Institute): in English.
  • Kwanbo Kwanbo (Official Gazette). (The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs).
    Includes official notices on new laws, budget, presidential decrees, treaties, regulations, courts, elections, public notices, local government administration, etc. The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs has been responsible for publishing and distributing the Official Gazette since 1999. The full text of the issues is also available at Korea E-government portal site.
  • Law Korea (mten.com (was Vision Of Information & Technology (VOIN))). Comprehensive database of Korean laws and regulations; current revised regulations; proposed legislation; treaties; cases, and free legal consultation services. This is free service, but requires a member registration. Searchable by keyword, date, case number, and referenced Acts.
  • Laws and Regulations (Korean Information Service) Contains a number of English texts of Korean legislation including foreign investment, immigration, customs, consumer protection, monopolies, financial laws, industrial property, labor laws, etc.
  • Legal Texts Website includes news and a very limited number of legal texts.(Ministry of Justice): In English and in Korean.

Laws by Subject

  • Economic (Ministry of Legislation): In English.
  • Environment Lists and summaries of laws (Ministry of the Environment): In English and in Korean.
  • Patent Act (Intellectual Property Office): In English.

Jurisprudence

Government

Other

  • Korean Legal Research (University of Washington School of Law): A very comprehensive Guide to doing research on Korean law.  Helpful in describing paper resources.
  • Index to Korean Legal Materials (Seoul National University Press): Index of articles, books and other materials from 1945 to 1998 in Korean.  
  • Internet Legal Information Forum.
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies (Harvard only): Standard bibliographical tool for Western-language publications in the field of East, South, and Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Korea The Asian Development Bank provides a number of fact sheets, country reports, project summaries including legal initiatives and more. (Asian Development Bank).

Subscription Databases

  • Statutes of the Republic of Korea (Korean Legislation Research Institute): Only table of contents to paper publication.  Available full-text as a subscription service.

Kyrgyzstan

Constitution

Law and Legislation

  • Laws (LexInfoSys from University of Bremen): Mostly in Russian.  Contains a wide variety of laws.
  • Legal Base (Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway): Contains full-text in English of selected laws, mostly business oriented.

Laws by Subject

Government

Other

  • On the Prospect of Legal Reform in Kyrgyzstan (Institutional Reform and Information Service from the University of Maryland).
  • Kyrgyz Republic The Asian Development Bank provides a number of fact sheets, country reports, project summaries including legal initiatives and more. (Asian Development Bank).

Kuwait

Constitution

Laws and Legislation

Government

Other

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Constitution

Government

Other

  • Lao People's Democratic Republic The Asian Development Bank provides a number of fact sheets, country reports, project summaries including legal initiatives and more. (Asian Development Bank).
  • Laos Contains links to government, laws and policies. (Droit Francophonie)

Latvia

Constitution

  • Constitution (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht): In English.
  • Constitution (Chancery of the President): In English.

Legislation

Laws by Subject

  • Banking (Latvian Bank): In English and Latvian.
  • Citizenship (Naturalization Board): In English and Latvian.
  • Commercial (State Enterprise Registry): In Latvian, with the Commercial Law in English.
  • Competition (Competition Council): In English and Latvian.
  • Copyright (UNESCO): In English.
  • Defense (Ministry of Defense): In English and Latvian.
  • Education and Science (Ministry of Education and Science): In Latvian.
  • Environment (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development): In English.
  • Finance (Ministry of Finance): In Latvian.
  • Human Rights (Institute on Human Rights at the University of Latvia).
  • Information (Association of Computer Technologies): In Latvian, and includes the Criminal Code.
  • Maritime (Latvian Maritime Law Association: In Latvian, except for the Lithuanian Maritime Code.
  • Patents (Soros Foundation Latvia and Latvian Academy of Sciences): In English.
  • Social Security (Ministry of Welfare): In Latvian.
  • Taxes (State Revenue Service): In English.  More laws available in Latvian.

 Goverment

Other

Lebanon

Constitution

Legislation

  • Value Added Tax (Ministry of Finance): In Arabic. Includes the main law as well as relevant regulations and decrees.

Government

Jurisprudence

Other

 Libya

Constitution

  • Constitution (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht): In English.

Liechtenstein

Constitution

  • Constitution (Fürstenhaus): In German. Includes the 1921 Constitution and the 2003 revised Constitution. 
  • Constitution of 1921 (Dag Trygsland Hoelseth). In English.

Legislation

  • Collection of Laws (LLV Government Portal). Liechtenstein Gazette. The Chronological Collection encompasses all Liechtenstein Legal Gazette (Landesgesetzblatt, LBGl.) entries in the chronological order of their publication. The Systematic Collection contains all enactments of Liechtenstein national law (Landesrecht, LR) and of treaty law (Staatsvertragsrecht, SV) in updated form, i.e., in the currently valid version. The Systematic Collection is structured according to areas of the law.
  • Liechtenstein Law (Juris Verlag). Searchable and browsable index.

Jurisprudence

Government

Other

Lithuania

Constitution

Law and Legislation

Laws by Subject

Jurisprudence

Government

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