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Special Collections :: Country Profiles :: Dhū al-Ḥijja 1438 / September 2017
Nazow Tarakai
This Country Profile provides a basic overview of the legal history and institutional structures of Burkina Faso, based on research produced by GlobaLex at NYU Law School and the Library of Congress. Under Burkina Faso's Constitution, Islamic law (sharīʿa or fiqh) has no legal status.
Contemporary Primary Sources :: Constitutions :: 1442 Jumādā II 1442 / 15 January 2021
Jason Golfinos
English translation, from the French, of the 1960 Constitution of the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
English translation, from the French, of the 1970 Constitution of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
English translation, from the French, of the 1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso.
English translation of the 1997 Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended by Law No. 002-97/ADP of 27 January 1997).
English translation of the 2000 Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended by Law No. 003-2000/AN of 11 April 2000).
English translation of the 2002 Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended by Law No. 001-2002/AN of 22 January 2002).
English translation of the 2009 Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended by Constitutional Law No. 015-2009/AN of 30 April 2009).
English translation of the 2012 Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended to Law No. 033-2012/AN of 11 June 2012).
English translation of 2013 Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended to Law No. 035-2013/AN of 12 November 2013).
English translation, from the French, of 2014 Burkina Faso Constitutional Charter (Charter of the Transition, 13 November 2014).
English translation of 2015 Constitution of Burkina Faso (1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, as amended to 2015).