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European e-Justice portal
https://e-justice.europa.eu/home.do
Website of the European Commission’s European e-Justice portal which is designed to be an “electronic one-stop-shop for access to justice throughout the EU”. The site brings together legal information for citizens, businesses and lawyers concerned with cross-border legal questions. There is background information on the court and legal systems of all member states and users have access to databases providing EU and national legislation and case law including EUR-Lex, N-Lex and JURE. Links to the founding treaties of the European Union, sources of international law and legal databases for individual member states are also provided. Other sections deal with particular topics including going to court, legal aid, mediation, family law and finding a lawyer in the EU. Information on legislative instruments to facilitate cross-border proceedings, including judicial cooperation and video conferencing, is also given. The site can be accessed in all the official EU languages.
Added: 2010-07-27More details
Decisions, Recommendations and other Instruments of the OECD
http://webnet.oecd.org/oecdacts/
Database of legal instruments adopted by the Council of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The instruments include decisions, recommendations, and conventions; they can be browsed by subject, type, title, date, reference number or committee. There are also basic and advanced search facilities. The database is available in English and French.
Added: 2010-07-26More details
Priv-War
http://priv-war.eu/
Priv-War is a collaborative project being undertaken by a consortium of seven European academic institutions including the University of Sheffield in the UK.
The project is being coordinated and hosted by the European University Institute in Italy. The aim of Priv-War is to look at the use of private military companies and security companies in situations of armed conflict and will examine the “regulatory framework at national, European and international levels, with a view to ensuring improved compliance with international humanitarian law and human rights”. The site provides access to details of events, full text papers and project news.
Added: 2010-04-12More details
United Nations Human Rights Council
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
Website of the UN Human Rights Council an inter-governmental organisation created by the UN General Assembly in 2006 as the successor body to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The UNHRC is responsible for “strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe”. The site gives details of membership of the HRC, its rules of procedure, advisory committees and working groups and details of meetings and other events. There is information on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) whereby the HRC reviews the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. There is also information on the Special procedures which are the mechanisms established by the Commission on Human Rights and assumed by the Human Rights Council to look at human rights violations in different areas.
Added: 2010-04-12More details
International Council for Commercial Arbitration
http://www.arbitration-icca.org/index.html
Website of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) a worldwide non-governmental body concerned with the promotion of arbitration, conciliation and other methods of resolving international commercial disputes. The ICCA produces publications and hosts conferences and events. It also contributes to preparation of the “Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, the UNCITRAL Conciliation Rules, and the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration”. The site has information on officers and members and details of past and future conferences. The main publication of ICCA is the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration. The site provides free access to the contents of the Yearbook, a list of court decisions from around the world on arbitration and a consolidated list of arbitral awards. A selection of articles by ICCA members can be freely downloaded from the site.
Added: 2010-04-10More details
Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law
http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/transnational/index.htm
The Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law is a centre of the New York University School of Law established to “advance the study and practice of international business transactions and the way to solve related disputes either through litigation or arbitration”. The site has profiles of faculty and staff and details of courses and events hosted by the Center. Publications of the Center cover the following topics: private international law, international commercial law, international commercial arbitration and transnational civil litigation. References to these publications are provided and some can be downloaded in full text. A page of related web links is also offered.
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Lok Sabha
http://www.loksabha.nic.in/
Official website of the Lok Sabha (House of the People) which is one of the Indian Houses of Parliament. Lok Sabha is composed of representatives of the people directly elected by the adult population who are eligible to vote. The website gives details of members, parliamentary business and the work of committees. Parliamentary debates back to 2004 can be viewed in full text along with parliamentary questions. The site provides an outline of how laws are passed in the Indian Parliament.
Added: 2010-04-07More details
Rajya Sabha
http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/rsweb.asp
Official website of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) which is one of the Indian Houses of Parliament. Rajya Sabha is the Upper House of Parliament and its members are not elected directly by the Indian people but by the Legislative Assemblies of the various states. The site has background information on the role and composition of Rajya Sabha, organisational information and profiles of members. Details of parliamentary business are provided in bulletins, journals and synopses of debates. Questions asked in the house can be browsed or searched on the site and there is information on the work of the various committees.
Added: 2010-04-07More details
Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/law-reports-trials-war-criminals.html
This Library of Congress web page provides access to the 15 volume collection of the Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. The trials took place between 1947 and 1949. This collection has representative cases featuring lower-ranking military officers and concentration camp administrators who were tried for war crimes and does not include the trials of most prominent Japanese and Nazi leaders that took place in Nuremberg and Tokyo. Each volume is presented in full text PDF but the trials are summaries rather than full transcripts.
Added: 2010-04-07More details
Fedflix: free film from US government
http://www.archive.org/details/FedFlix
FedFlix is a collaboration between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. It provides free access via the Internet to films from branches of the American government. These include public information films, historic film clips and footage from the National Archives; Department of War; Chicago Police Department; Mine Safety and Health Administration; United States Forest Service and Federal Civil Defense Administration among many other departments. The full range of American domestic and foreign policy is covered. The site includes information on sources, copyright and technical details. A useful source for studying the history of American political communication.
Added: 2010-03-25More details
Disclosing Justice: a study on access to judicial information in Latin America
http://www.dplf.org/uploads/1196288246.pdf
Full text, online report by the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) looking at the legal frameworks for access to judicial information (including freedom of information laws) in the following Latin American countries: Argentina; Chile; Colombia; the Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Honduras; Mexico; Panama; Peru and Uruguay. For each country there is information on the availability of administrative information (financial, statistical and personnel) and case law. The report also outlines the legal instruments that provide access to information and looks at how the information is provided. The report can be freely downloaded in PDF from the DPLF website.
Added: 2010-03-22More details
Due Process of Law Foundation
http://www.dplf.org/
The Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) is a private, non-profit organisation which aims to promote “the reform and modernization of Latin America’s national justice systems to ensure that the rule of law and respect for human rights are the hallmarks of justice systems throughout the Americas.” DPLF’s activities include research and training focusing on international justice, judicial accountability and transparency and equal access to justice. Details of activities and publications relating to each area can be viewed on the site. DPLF publications can be freely viewed online and include a collection of reports on judicial independence in 10 Latin American countries which can be downloaded in Spanish. A comprehensive collection of links to legal resources in Latin American countries and press reports about the DPLF are also provided. The site can be viewed in English and Spanish versions.
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CourtWEB
http://courtweb.pamd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/
CourtWEB is the online federal court opinions information system hosted by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvannia. Selected opinions of the United States federal courts are provided by judges who have chosen to make them available. The site does not provide a complete collection of court opinions. CourtWEB can be searched by keywords in the full text of the opinion limiting by court or by searching the case number, judge, keywords and date fields. Results have search terms highlighted and a link to the full text opinion which can be downloaded from the site. A help page is provided.
Added: 2010-03-22More details
ASIL Insight: Copenhagen Climate Change Accord
http://www.asil.org/insights100212.cfm
This issue of ASIL Insight focuses on the Copenhagen Climate Change Accord.
ASIL Insights is a free online newsletter produced by the American Society of International Law. ASIL Insights publishes pieces highlighting developments in international law, aiming to inform decision-makers, the legal profession and the public. The author of this issue is Daniel Bodansky who is the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. The author explains the background to the Copenhagen Climate Change Accord and highlights key elements including long term vision, developed country mitigation, developing country mitigation, financial assistance, forestry and monitoring. There are links to related Insights covering the Copenhagen Conference and Accord and to documents such as the Copenhagen Accord of 18 December 2009, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
Added: 2010-03-22More details
China Patent Agent (H.K.)
http://www.cpahkltd.com/gateway.htm
Website of China Patent Agent (H.K.) a firm of patent and trademark attorneys established in 1984 as a quasi government entity to provide legal services for overseas clients. The site provides information on Chinese patent laws which can be downloaded from the site in English. The laws cover patents, trademarks, copyright, layout design of integrated circuits, new plant varieties and cyber law (domain name disputes). There are also international treaties, case summaries, a selection of FAQs and forms to download. The site can be viewed in English, German, Japanese and Chinese.
Added: 2010-03-22More details
Judiciary of Malta
http://www.judiciarymalta.gov.mt/
Website of the Judiciary of Malta providing information about the work of judges, magistrates and the Maltese courts. Information on judicial assistants and jurors is also given. A selection of articles detailing the history and development of the Maltese judicial system can be viewed in PDF. There is information on the court system providing details of the functions of the Inferior and Superior courts including the Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal, Civil Court, Criminal Court and the courts in Gozo. Summaries of recent decisions from the Maltese courts are given on the site to illustrate the types of cases dealt with. A page of related web links is also offered.
Added: 2010-03-15More details
Judicial Officers Association of South Africa
http://www.joasa.org.za/
Website of the Judicial Officers Association of South Africa (JOASA) the organisation representing members of the judiciary in South Africa. The site provides outline information on the organisation including contact details for officials and copies of reports produced by the various JOASA committees. Full text copies of JOASA’s journal and newsletters are made freely available on the site in HTML. Links to South African courts and sites providing online legislation are also given.
Added: 2010-03-15More details
Solomon Islands Law Reform Commission
http://www.paclii.org/gateway/LRC/SILRC/index.shtml
Official website of the Solomon Islands Law Reform Commission (SILRC) which is hosted by PacLII (the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute). The SILRC is a statutory body set up to review the laws of Solomon Islands and to make recommendations to the Government about how the law should be changed. The site has background information about the organisation and history. Details are given on the projects currently being undertaken by the Commission which include a review of the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code and a review of the law on ownership of land below high water mark and low water mark. A series of factsheets relating to the review of the Penal Code can also be viewed online. These look at the Penal Code as it relates to children, homosexual conduct, domestic violence, murder and rape.
Added: 2010-03-12More details
Law Handbook Online- Victoria
http://www.lawhandbook.org.au/
Electronic version of the Law Handbook, a practical, plain English guide to the law in Australia. The Handbook was compiled, and made freely available online, by the Fitzroy Legal Service a community legal centre based in Victoria. The Law Handbook is arranged by topic headings such as dealing with the legal system, families and children, managing your money, fair treatment, buying and selling and dealing with the government. The text has links to external web resources including legislation and organisations, other sections within the Handbook and words featured in the glossary. The site also offers a collection of full text factsheets covering subjects such as road law for cyclists, family violence, fences and trees, health law and privacy rights. The factsheets highlight the main points of law and give contact details for the relevant legal, government and community services.
Added: 2010-03-12More details
DNA identification evidence in criminal prosecutions
http://www.llrx.com/features/dnareliability.htm
Article looking at studies and reviews that have been published focusing on concerns over the use of forensic DNA evidence in criminal prosecutions. The article was written by Ken Strutin, who is Director of Legal Information Services at the New York State Defenders Association, and was published in March 2010 on LLRX.com. Summaries and links to the full texts are given of scholarly articles highlighting the types of mistakes that can undermine confidence in DNA evidence such as laboratory error, cross-contamination, interpretive bias or fraud. There is also a link to the standards set down by the American Bar Association and a selection of news articles. The emphasis is on US law throughout. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free online web journal for legal information professionals.
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PRS Legislative Research
http://www.prsindia.org/
PRS Legislative Research is an independent research initiative founded in 2005 to provide research support for MPs in the Indian Parliament. Information on the work and activities of PRS is made freely available on the web. The site provides access to the PRS Bill Tracking service which includes details of bills at any stage of their progress through Parliament. Bills are arranged by subject and status and can be viewed in full text. Additional guidance is provided for pending bills in the form of single page summaries and legislative briefs which giving an overview of the issues and implications of the bill. PRS also have a Parliament Tracking service on the site providing information on MPs activity in Parliament, details of committees and statistics on parliamentary proceedings. Regular in-house articles, covering various aspects of the work of the Indian Parliament, can also be read on the site.
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National Sea Grant Law Center
http://nsglc.olemiss.edu/index.html
Website of the National Sea Grant Law Center (SGLC) a United States research body founded in 2002 and based at the University of Mississippi. The Center “conducts research on marine laws and policies, coordinates ocean and coastal law researchers, and disseminates information to coastal and ocean policy-makers”. Sea Grant is a partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and universities that work with coastal communities conducting research, education, outreach and technology transfer. SGLC provides an advisory service to the legal and academic communities and government agencies. Responses to enquiries are made available on the site and cover issues such as abandoned vessels, admiralty law and aquaculture. Full text copies of the SGLCs journals, SandBar and the Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal, are provided online along with legislative and regulatory factsheets, reports and materials relating to fisheries management. There is also a page of links to government agencies, academic institutions and organisations concerned with marine issues.
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European Human Rights Court - Gender equality
http://www.coe.int/t/dc/files/source/equality_factsheet_en.doc
Council of Europe factsheet focusing on judgements of the European Court of Human Rights dealing with human rights violations affecting women. The factsheet is made freely available online as a Word document. There is commentary given on important cases dealing with domestic violence, discrimination against single mothers, the right to keep a maiden name, protection of physical integrity and protection against trafficking in human beings. Links are given to COE web pages dealing with gender equality and to the judgements mentioned in the factsheet.
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Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/womenandjustice/index.cfm
Website of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School in the United States. The Center works with legal professionals and governmental and non-governmental organisations to improve access to justice for victims of gender based violence. Their work includes providing legal research assistance to judges on gender-based violence, undertaking project work, providing online legal resources and hosting conferences and events. The site provides history and background to the Center and gives details of staff. A selection of treaties and other regional and international documents relating to gender based violence can be accessed on the site along with statutes and case law from around the world. United Nations conventions and resolutions, consensus documents and Security Council resolutions relevant to gender based violence are provided. There are also links to the websites of related UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies and International Criminal Tribunals and Special Courts, regional human rights systems and to cases from the domestic courts of individual countries.
Added: 2010-03-01More details
EIF Implementation Database
http://www.eif.oeaw.ac.at/implementation/index.php
Database of studies of implementation of EU legislation, produced and managed by Dimiter Toshkov of Leiden University with the support of the Institute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The database brings together quantitative academic research concerning the implementation of directives and compliance with EU law.
Added: 2010-03-01More details
Preserving born-digital legal materials - where to start?
http://www.llrx.com/features/borndigital.htm
Online article dealing with the preservation of digital legal materials written by Sarah Rhodes who is the digital collections librarian at the Georgetown Law Library in Washington, D.C. and a project coordinator for The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive. The article was published on LLRX.com in February 2010. The author looks at the issues surrounding the selection of materials to be preserved, the software requirements, the standards and protocols for digital preservation software and services and financial considerations. There is also a section looking at how academic law libraries are taking responsibility for the digital preservation of their law reviews. The experiences of various US law libraries are examined and links are given to digital preservation projects, repositories and standards.
Added: 2010-03-01More details
Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic
http://www.justice.gov.sk/a/wf.aspx
Official website of the Slovakian Ministry of Justice. The site includes a profile of the Justice Minister and outlines the roles and duties of the individual sections within the Ministry. These cover criminal law, civil law and international law. There is information about the provision of legal aid and Slovakian extradition procedures. An outline of the court system and the Judicial Academy and an organisation chart of the Ministry are also given. The site can be viewed in Slovakian and English.
Added: 2010-03-01More details
Kuwait’s legal system and legal research
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Kuwait.htm
Online guide to the law and legal system of Kuwait written by Ahmed Khedr who is a lecturer in law and corporate affairs. The guide was published in 2010 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The guide has an introduction and general history to Kuwait including a historical timeline. An outline of the Kuwaiti legal system has sections covering the issuing of laws, the role of the Amir, the prime minister and other ministers, the National Assembly, the judicial structure and the court system. The author also provides a selection of legal links to Kuwaiti websites including government departments, versions of the Constitution, educational institutions, newspapers and magazines and sites providing access to Kuwaiti laws.
Added: 2010-02-26More details
Human Rights Consortium
http://www.sas.ac.uk/human_rights.html
The Human Rights Consortium has been created by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. The aim of the Consortium is to “facilitate, promote and disseminate academic and policy work on Human Rights” by hosting conferences and establishing a network of Human Rights researchers, policy-makers and practitioners. The Consortium brings together human rights researchers from several Institutes of the School including the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas. The site provides a list detailing the expertise of staff at the School of Advanced Study in human rights issues.
Added: 2010-02-26More details
Legal research in Slovakia
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Slovakia.htm
Online guide to conducting legal research in Slovakia written by Juraj Alexander who is an attorney in the Prague office of Salans law firm and Juraj Gyárfáš who is studying for an LLM in Hamburg. The guide was published in 2010 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The authors give an introduction to Slovakia and to the Slovakian political and governmental systems. There is information on the Slovakian legal system looking at the courts (including the Constitutional Court), sources of law and legislation. There is also a section on the legal profession and legal education along with a selection of links to a range of Slovakian legal resources.
Added: 2010-02-26More details
LESIJ.JS
http://lexetscientia.univnt.ro/en/journals/Law.html
LESIJ.JS is a full text legal journal made freely available online by the Nicolae Titulescu University in Romania. The journal is aimed at legal practitioners, academics and law students and covers all legal areas but focuses particularly on topics that cross traditional branches of the law and the relationship of law to other disciplines. Topics covered include criminal justice, socio-legal studies, criminology, European private law, internet law and intellectual property law. Issues are available back to 2006. The most recent issue includes articles on criminal investigation and the right to privacy, the indirect influence of European law over national criminal law and the role of jurisprudence within the Romanian legal system. Articles can be downloaded in full text (PDF).
Added: 2010-02-25More details
Internet Library of Early Journals: digital library of 18th and 19th century journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
This site was created by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. It provides free access to the full text of a number of leading 18th and 19th century English journal titles. Gentleman's Magazine (1731-50); the Annual Register (1758-78); Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (175777); Notes and Queries (1849-69); the Builder (1843-52) and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863). These are of value for social, economic and political historians of the period. Both the Annual register and Gentleman's magazine include notes on parliamentary activity election, parliamentary reform and world events from a British viewpoint. Information on the project and copyright is provided on the website.
Added: 2010-02-18More details
Gibraltar
http://www.lowtax.net/lowtax/html/gibraltar/jgigat.html
This page on the offshore business, e-commerce and tax regime in Gibraltar forms part of the Lowtax website an online source of "information on offshore and 'low-tax' regimes worldwide." The site provides background information about Gibraltar including an outline of the system of government, the economy, geography, banking and the business environment. There is an outline of the taxation system and tax relating to offshore operations. There is also guidance to the law on taxation, insurance, banking, employment and the types of company that can be set up and information relating to the legal profession in Gibraltar.
Added: 2010-02-12More details
Office for Security and Counter Terrorism
http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/
Official website of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT) a Directorate within the United Kingdom Home Office which “leads the work on counter-terrorism in the UK, working closely with the police and security services”. The site has information about the work and responsibilities of the OSCT along with a full text copy of the counter terrorism strategy which can be freely downloaded. Also given on this site is information on how the government, emergency services, local authorities and regional agencies respond to a terrorist threat and the OSCT’s strategy for using science and technology to combat terrorists. There is a description of the OSCT’s programme for countering the threat of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE). The legislation page provides access to key pieces of legislation, administered by the Home Office, which give the government key powers in combating terrorism. There is also information on proposed new legislation and on the independent reviews of terrorism legislation which are carried out regularly to ensure terrorism laws remain appropriate.
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Independent Case Examiner
http://www.ind-case-exam.org.uk/
Official website of the Independent Case Examiner (ICE) whose role is to investigate complaints made by users of the following Government Agencies: the Child Support Agency; Debt Management; Pension, Disability and Carers Service; the Financial Assistance Scheme; Jobcentre Plus; Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division (Northern Ireland) and the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency. The site gives guidance on how to make a complaint and how complaints will be dealt with by the ICE, additional information about the work of the ICE, annual reports and news items about the service.
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Northern Ireland social welfare law
http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/law_and_legislation.htm
This part of the Northern Ireland Department for Social Development website provides access to primary and secondary legal materials relating to social welfare law in Northern Ireland. There is an electronic version of "The Law Relating to Social Security for Northern Ireland" (The Blue Volumes) and “The law relating to Child Support in Northern Ireland“ (The Orange Volume) providing access to legislation relating to benefits and pensions in the country. The Northern Ireland Digest of Case-law (NIDOC) provides access to appeals heard by the Office of the Social Security Commissioners and Child Support Commissioners (OSSC) in Northern Ireland from 2000 onwards. These decisions relate to “social security benefit, compensation recovery and child support applications and appeals”. Other materials presented on the site include publications of the Social Policy Unit and a page of related web links.
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Military law resources
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/military-legal-resources-home.html
This Library of Congress web page provides access to a selection of legal materials held by the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School Library. The collection includes primary source materials and publications in the field of military law. There is a series of Army Lawyer pamphlets available back to 1971 and complete issues of the Military Law Review journal. Other publications provided include field manuals, army regulations, materials relating to the Geneva Conventions, manuals for Courts Martial, documents relating to war crimes trials such as Nuremburg and Korean War atrocities and selected theses and monographs.
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Law of War Deskbook
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/LOW-Deskbook.pdf
The Law of War Deskbook is published by the International and Operational Law Department of The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in the United States. This edition was published in January 2010 and is made freely available in full text (PDF) on the Library of Congress website. The Deskbook is intended to be used as a teaching tool covering the international and operational law subjects taught to military judge advocates. There are chapters providing an introduction to public international law and looking at the history and framework of the law of war. Other chapters deal with the legal basis for the use of force, means and methods of warfare, war crimes and human rights. There are also chapters dealing with each of the four Geneva Conventions.
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Court of Restitution Appeals reports
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/exhibits/digital/court-of-restitution
This site provides access to full text law reports of the United States Court of Restitution Appeals, digitised and made freely available online by Harvard Law School Library. During World War Two the Nazis compelled many victims in occupied countries to sell properties and businesses. After the war the Western Allies agreed to restitute property taken and the United States, France and Britain each passed different legislation governing the restitution of property taken by Nazis. The US established the Court of Restitution Appeals (and its successor the Supreme Restitution Court Third Division) as a court of last resort for restitution cases. Twelve volumes of opinions and other documents of these two courts, from 1951 to 1966, can be searched or browsed on this site. Background information to the project, a help page and links to the catalogue records of related works are also provided.
Added: 2010-02-01More details
Legal portraits online
http://www.law.harvard.edu/apps/library/collections/special/online-collections/p
Legal Portraits Online is a project of the Harvard Law School Library to digitise its collection of “over 4000 portrait images of lawyers, jurists, political figures, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century”. In particular the collection includes images of eighteenth and nineteenth century British and American lawyers such as William Blackstone, Jeremy Bentham, John Marshall, and Joseph Story along with graduates of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School. The images can be searched using Harvard University Libraries' online catalogue of visual materials. Guidance is given on searching the catalogue along with a list of keywords used. Technical and cataloguing information can also be viewed on the site.
Added: 2010-02-01More details
Review of civil litigation costs
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about_judiciary/cost-review/index.htm
This site provides access to Lord Justice Jackson’s review of civil litigation costs including the preliminary and the final reports in full text PDF. The purpose of the review was to examine “the rules and principles governing the costs of civil litigation and to make recommendations in order to promote access to justice at proportionate cost”. The final report has sections looking at the funding of litigation, fixed costs, personal injury litigation, specific types of litigation (including intellectual property, judicial review and housing claims), controlling the costs of litigation and recommendations. The report’s recommendations include getting rid of referral fees paid to Claims Management companies, reform of Conditional Fee Agreements ("no win, no fee" agreements) and fixed costs for Fast Track Claims where the trial can be concluded in a day. The site also has a press release and the names of people on the Panel of Assessors.
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Edmund M. Morgan Papers on the drafting of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/exhibits/digital/ucmj_morgan.html
This Harvard Law School Library collection contains papers donated by Harvard Law School Professor Edmund M. Morgan who was chair of the United States Committee on a Uniform Code of Military Justice (CUCMJ) in 1948. The papers form seven volumes and relate to the work of the Committee in creating a single uniform code to replace the separate codes that existed for the Army and Navy. The papers can be browsed or searched online by keyword. Digitisation of these papers is a joint project of the Harvard Law School Library, The Judge Advocate General's School Library and the Library of Congress. The site also gives a link to the Code and to a collection of military legal resources hosted by the Library of Congress.
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Caribbean Law Project
http://www.commonlii.org/resources/55912.html
The Caribbean Law Project provides access to the legal materials of Caribbean countries via CommonLII (Commonwealth Legal Information Institute). From this page it is possible to search cases and legislation from the following Caribbean jurisdictions: Anguilla; Antigua & Barbuda; The Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Dominica; Grenada; Guyana; Jamaica; St Kitts & Nevis; St Lucia; St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago. It is also possible to search external legal websites listed on the catalogue pages of each of the Caribbean jurisdictions. CommonLII is a cooperative legal information initiative led by AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) providing access to freely available legal materials from all Commonwealth countries.
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Eucrim
http://www.mpicc.de/eucrim/order.php
Eucrim is a legal journal focusing on European criminal law and made freely available online by the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Eucrim is published twice a year and is aimed at both practitioners and academics. It contains news and feature articles on developments in criminal law in Europe with each issue focusing on a specific topic. Recent topics covered include the development of European procedural law, the work of OLAF- the European Anti-Fraud Office and evidence gathering and joint investigation teams. The site can be viewed in English and French and the journal is provided in full text in English. Users can sign up for free email delivery.
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Wrongful conviction and attorney-client confidentiality
http://www.llrx.com/features/wrongfulconvictionconfidentiality.htm
Online article looking at the conflicts arising for lawyers when they find out their client has committed a crime ascribed to someone else. The article was written by Ken Strutin who is Director of Legal Information Services at the New York State Defenders Association and was published on LLRX.com in January 2010.
The article focuses on United States law and provides links and commentary to ethics codes and rules, legal articles and examples of miscarriages of justice where a lawyer has known the identity of the real perpetrator. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free online web journal for legal information professionals.
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Human rights by country
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/Pages/HumanRightsintheWorld.aspx
Online guide to human rights in member states of the United Nations. This site forms part of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) website. There is a page for each member state providing access to human rights documents and news and current information on human rights in each country. Documents include recent Special Procedures reports which examine human rights situations in individual countries, reports of UN Treaty Bodies including concluding observations and information on the status of human rights treaties and the reporting status of each country. Full text documents are provided throughout. The site can be viewed in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese.
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Immigration law: a primer
http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/immlaw09.pdf/$file/immlaw09.pdf
Online version of a publication called Immigration law: a primer written by
Michael A. Scaperlanda who is Associate Dean for Scholarship and Research and Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. The primer was published by the Federal Judicial Center, an education and research agency for the United States federal courts, and provides an introduction to and overview of immigration law in the US. There are chapters looking at the administration of immigration law, judicial review, the constitutional framework, admission categories and procedures, grounds for inadmissibility and deportation, the removal process, asylum and refugee law and the intersection of criminal law and immigration law. Also covers legislative history and the role of the immigration judge.
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Lawyers Defence Group
http://www.lawyersdefencegroup.org.uk/
Website of the Lawyers Defence Group an organisation providing advice and guidance for legal professionals on regulatory, conduct, practice, partnership and employment issues. The service is run by Richard Nelson Solicitors and Murdochs Solicitors. The site has information outlining the role of the various regulators including the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Board and the Council for Licensed Conveyancers. There is background information on aspects of solicitor conduct and regulation such as the Legal Complaints Service, Professional Indemnity Insurance and the Solicitors Code of Conduct. Other parts of the site deal with practice management and issues relating to individuals such as redundancy, discrimination and entering into a partnership.
Added: 2010-01-19More details
International Law Notebooks
http://www.caietedrept.eu/index_en.php
Website of International Law Notebooks (Caiete de Drept International) a Romanian legal journal published by the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the University of Resita and the Romanian Society for the Protection of Cultural Assets. The site provides contents and summaries of articles back to 2003 when the first issue was published. The journal is focused on international law issues and summaries can be viewed in Romanian and in the language of the author of the article. The site provides an introduction which can be read in Romanian, French, German and English.
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World Legal Systems
http://www.droitcivil.uottawa.ca/world-legal-systems/eng-monde.php
A substantial website developed by the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa, Canada, providing information about the world's main legal systems. The site organises material into five categories: civil law, common law, customary law, Islamic law and mixed law. It outlines the different systems and lists the countries or jurisdictions where they are found. Statistics, graphs and analytical tables are provided (for example, GDP by legal system, population distribution by legal system) and there is a clickable world map of legal systems. The site is available in English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.
Added: 2009-12-22More details
