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Compact of Free Association: original (1986) and as amended (2003) (PDF 526K, establishing the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, from Professor Dirk H.R. Spennemann's Digital Micronesia: The Marshall Islands. Also available by clicking the "Notes" link on this page at the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

The Compact of Free Association Act, U.S. Public Law 99-239 (1986), by which the Compact was approved by the United States, applies to both the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. It is available online from the Joint Committee on Compact Economic Negotiations of the Federated States of Micronesia.

The Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Government of the United States entered into a number of "Subsidiary Agreements" to the Compact of Free Association. Three of these Compact-related agreements also apply to the Federated States of Micronesia and are available online from the Joint Committee on Compact Economic Negotiations of the Federated States of Micronesia:

Federal Programs and Services Agreement

Status of Forces Agreement

Telecommunications Agreement

The United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands in 2003 extended the Compact of Free Association between them. A good source on the status talks is Compacts of Free Association Renegotiations, from the Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center in Hawaii, which collects links to the current text of the Compact, statements and proposals by the negotiating teams, news articles on the negotiations, U.S. General Accounting Office reports relevant to the negotiations, and other sources. The United States Department of the Interior has collected the revised Subsidiary Agreements between the United States and the Republic in a single PDF file.

Constitution of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at the University of the South Pacific School of Law.

Criminal Code of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (1989), from the Pacific Law Materials collection of the University of the South Pacific Law School, via the Internet Archive.

Court decisions: A selection of judicial decisions from the Republic of the Marshall Islands is available from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at the University of the South Pacific School of Law.

United States laws pertaining to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (and the Federated States of Micronesia), as collected in title 48 of the United States Code, from the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

Links to other research sites for the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

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