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Man, Isle of

Location Irish Sea, between N Ireland, Great Britain
Latitude and longitude  54 15 N, 4 30 W
Sovereignty British Crown Dependency
United Nations member? No
Population  73,117
Census notes est. July 2000
Land area in square kilometers 572
Capital  Douglas

Legal documents online

Acts of Tynwald, from the Isle of Man Government, since January 1, 2001; also includes Secondary Legislation since January 1, 2009, and the Manx Law Newsletter since October 2008.

Sources and other useful websites

Government of the Isle of Man
Isle-of-Man
Isle of Man Guide
LLRX.Com, Finding the Law: the Micro-States and Small Jurisdictions of Europe: Isle of Man, by Andrew Grossman
Tynwald, the Parliament of the Isle of Man
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook

Selected articles on law and political status

The Isle of Man, by Donald Gelling, Chief Minister, Isle of Man Government, in Jean-Didier Hache (editor), What Status for Europe's Islands? (Quel Statut pour les Īles d'Europe?) (2000).  This volume is no longer available online.   Interested readers may be able to purchase it through Alibris or other booksellers.
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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