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Jersey
| Location |
English Channel, in N Atlantic Ocean |
| Latitude and longitude |
49 15 N, 2 10 W |
| Sovereignty |
British Crown Dependency |
| United Nations member? |
No |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Bailiwick of Jersey" |
| Population |
88,915 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2000 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
117 |
| Capital |
Saint Helier |
Legal document(s) online
|
| International Court of Justice, Minquiers
and Ecrehos Case (France/United Kingdom 1951-1953) |
| Laws, court reports and other legal materials from the Jersey
Legal Information Board |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| LLRX.Com, Finding
the Law: the Micro-States and Small Jurisdictions of Europe: Jersey,
by Andrew Grossman |
| The States of Jersey,
the official government website for the Island of Jersey |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| The
Channel Islands' Position in International Law, by Richard
Plender , in volume 3 of the Jersey Law Review (June 1999) |
|
Offshore Finance: How Safe is the Constitutional Safety Net?,
by St. John Bates, Institute of Islands Studies, University of Prince Edward
Island, Canada (2001): this paper examines " the constitutional
relationship of the UK Crown dependencies (Isle of Man, Jersey and
Guernsey) with the Crown and the UK Government; and their consequential
relationship with the European Union and international organisations" |
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