E Law: NetWatch September, 1996

Author:	Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Subjects:	Internet computer network (17 other articles) Legal research (36 other articles)
Issue:	Volume 3, Number 3 (September 1996)
Category:	NetWatch

This issue of Netwatch focuses on issues of sexuality and gender and the law to reflect the substantive component of this issue of E-Law. Not all of the links are exclusively legal however most contain some discussion of legal i ssues pertaining to issues of sexual orientation, sexuality and gender.

New sites spotted:

• Australian Sites
• Government Sites
• Primary Legal Materials Case law and statutes
• Directories
• Journals, newspapers and magazines

• Cases
• Statutes, treaties and proposed bills
• Government statements
• Journals and Articles
• Organisations and Conferences
• Lists or directories of useful sites and interesting links
• Same Sex marriages

• SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY v. "SRA" No. NG745 of 1992 FED No. 869/93 Social Security (1993) 118 ALR 467 (1993) 43 FCR 299 (1993) 18 AAR 49 8, (1993) 31 ALD 1
  "This is an application by way of appeal from a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal affirming a decision of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal that the respondent was qualified under s. 37(1)(a) of the Social Security Act 1947 (the Act) to receive a wife's pension as being a woman who is the wife of an invalid pensioner... The respondent is a male-to-female transsexual who has not undergone sex reassignment surgery. She was described in one of the medi cal reports tendered before the Tribunal as a classic male-to-female transsexual." Extensive discussion and referencing to transsexual cases and articles.
  URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp.pl/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/unrep6592.html

• JOHN J. HURLEY and SOUTH BOSTON ALLIED WAR VETERANS COUNCIL, PETITIONERS v. IRISH-AMERICAN GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL GROUP OF BOSTON, etc., et al. on writ of certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. [June 19, 1995]
  URL: gopher://gopher.utah.edu:70/0ftp%3Aftp.cwru.edu@/hermes/ascii/94-749.ZO.filt

• ROY Romer v. Evans (U.S., 1996) on writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Colorado [May 20, 1996] (state may not ban municipal homosexual anti-discrimination laws)
  URL: gopher://gopher.utah.edu:70/0ftp%3Aftp.cwru.edu@/hermes/ascii/94-1039.ZO.filt

• Toonen v Australia
  URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp.pl/au/cases/nt/supreme_ct/unrep663.html

  The Views of the Human Rights Committee: Comm No 488/1992, in Toonen v. Australia, has been published in the Report of the Human Rights Committee, Volume II, Official Records of the 49th session of the General Assembly, Suppl. No. 40, U.N. Doc. A/49/40, at p. 226.
  

  • Gay Rights Victory at UN - Part 1, Part 2 from the Australian Human Rights Information Centr e
    
    URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/ahric/gayi.html
    URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/ahric/gayii.html
    URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/ahric

• Merits Response - December 25th 1993 Communication to: The Human Rights Committee submitted for consideration under the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant o n Civil and Political Rights in relation to Tasmanian anti-homosexuality laws.
  URL: http://bizo.biz.usyd.edu.au/QRD/tas/law/merits_response.html

• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Australia)
  URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/hraeoca1986512/

• Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994 Response to Toonens case (Australia)
  URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/hrca1994297/

• Oregon 1994 Ballot Measure 13 (homosexuality) (Failed)
  URL: gopher://gaia.ucs.orst.edu:70/00/osu-i+s/OLIS/1994/BM13.txt

• Sex Discrimination Act 1984(Australia)
  URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sda1984209/

• Sex Discrimination Ordinance (Hong Kong)
  URL: http://www.info.gov.hk:80/hab/sdo.htm

• Bill of Gender Rights, JoAnn Roberts in 1990 and offered to the community at large. It is the basis for the International Bill of Gender Rights developed and maintained by ICTLEP.
  URL: http://www2.zoom.com/tg/stlgf/gender.html

• The International Bill of Gender Rights The International Bill of Gender Rights (IBGR) was first drafted in committee and adopted by the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy (ICTLEP) at that organization's second annual meeting, held in Houston, Texas, August 26-29, 1993.
  URL: http://gnew.gn.apc.org/inquirer/GDRights.html

• The European Court of Justice Recommendation in relation equal treatment of transexuals - specifically in realtion to employment and unfair dismissal laws.
  URL http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Christine_Burns/PFCECJR1.HTM

• The Justice Statement including chapters related to Womens Justice Strategy and Human Rights (Australia)
  URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp.pl/au/other/cth_ag/justice/jcontents.html

• Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy solicits work relevant to gender law and policy from all perspectives, disciplines, and authors.
  URL: http://www.duke.edu/~jrd4/djglp.htm
  • Volume 1, 1994 full text articles
    URL: http://www.duke.edu/~jrd4/djgvol1.htm

  • Volume 2, 1995 Defining Family: Adoption Law & Policy. 1994 Conference and Symposium Issue.
    URL: http://www.duke.edu/~jrd4/djgvol2.htm

• Euroletter published on behalf of ILGA - The International Lesbian and Gay Association
  URL: http://fglb.qrd.org:8080/fqrd/assocs/ilga/euroletter/

• Essays on Law and Sexuality. Abstracts and links to internet articles on the subject of law and sexuality. Indexed at Cambridge Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (UK).
  URL: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/SUBJECTS/24.HTM

• Gay in America 1996 photojournalist series in the San Francisco Examiner, June 1996.
  URL: http://www.sfgate.com/examiner/special/gia/

• Law & Sexuality A Review of Lesbian and Gay Legal Issues
  URL : http://www.law.tulane.edu/journals/law_sex.htm

• Lisa's Transgender Information Pages A personal account of being a transexual including personal, social and legal discussion.
  URL: http://www.law.tulane.edu/journals/law_sex.htm

• Mens Issues Pages, WWW virtual library with a vast array of links
  URL: http://www.vix.com/pub/men/

• The National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law
  URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaylaw/

• Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage: Time for Change? E-LawCurrent Developments, September 1994, Inge Lauw (Australia)
  URL: http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v1n3/lauw2.txt

• Sexual Orientation and the Law in Britain and Ireland Dr. Robert Wintemute School of Law, King's College London. Paper presented to the 25th Annual BIALL Study Conferenc e at Birmingham in September 1994.
  URL: http://ltc.law.warwick.ac.uk/lawlibrarian/articles/article4.html

• Social Policy Compilation- Chapter Eleven: (Christian Belief and) Sexuality and Human Values Social Policy Compilation published by Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy of the USA Presbyterian community.
  URL: http://205.138.172.20/folio.pgi/swpcomp/query=[jump!3A!27aids!27]/doc/{3863,0,0,0}?

• Transgender law Articles and texts to ftp from Netcom.
  URL: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/os/osprey/politics/

• Victimless Crimes: Decriminalisation of Homosexual Sexual Activity E-Law, Current Developments, September 1994, Inge Lauw (Australia)
  URL: http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v1n3/lauw3.txt

• The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism is committed to publishing pieces about women's experiences, especially as they have been structured, affected, controlled, discussed, or ignored by the law. These experiences include the particular experiences of women of color and of lesbians.
  URL: http://www.yale.edu/lawnfem/law%26fem.html

• American Civil Liberties Union (USA)
  URL: http://www.aclu.org/

• Australian Human Rights Information Centre
  
  URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/ahric

• Beiing '95, Women Power and Change: Follow Up & Implementation
  URL: http://www.womensnet.apc.org/beijing/

• Breaking the Silence: A Campaign to Protect the Human Rights of Gay Men and Lesbians Worldwide
  URL: http://www.qrd.org/QRD/orgs/AIMLGC/breaking.the.silence.campaign

• Existing Same-Sex Marriages International Conference on Transgender law and Employment Policy, Inc
  URL: http://web.cps.msu.edu/~lees/marriage.html

• Human Rights Resource PageThis page contains names of human rights organizations, other organizations doing substantial amounts of human rights work, and resources (such as libraries and internet-based information) of use to human rights activists and researchers.
  URL: http://www.traveller.com/~hrweb/resource.html

• LEGAL-International Law Enforcement Gays and Lesbians-International is a worldwide federation of gay and lesbian law enforcement groups.
  URL: http://members.aol.com/legalint/index.html

• National Organisation for Women (USA)
  URL: http://members.aol.com/legalint/index.html

• Sexual Orientation and the Law Conference in Perth.
  URL: http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au:80/~lawcon96/index.html

• The 3rd Annual International Conference for Lesbian and Gay Criminal Justice Professionals October 9-12, 1, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA)
  URL: http://users.aol.com/legalmn2/3rdcon.html

• The U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library Civil Liberties and Civil Rights A comprehensive page of links.
  URL: http://law.house.gov/93.htm

• The English Department at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) maintains two useful pages of links in the area of gender and sexuality, and feminism and women's studies.
  • Gender and SexualityThis page maintained by publishes texts which address gender studies and queer studies, with a particular focus upon discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices.
    URL: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/gender/
    
  • Feminism and Women's Studies This page publishes women's studies and feminist works, particularly focusing on issues of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality in cultural practices.
    URL: http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/feminism/

• The Equal Marriage Rights Home Page
  URL: http://nether.net/~rod/html/sub/marriage.html

• Gender Legal Issues
  URL: http://nether.net/~rod/html/sub/marriage.html

• Gendericious Law
  URL: http://www.yak.net/third/Law/

• International Queer Legal Issues includes links to age of consent in US state jurisdictions.
  URL: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/world/legal.html

• Law Students for Gay & Lesbian Concerns
  URL: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/journals/lsglc/lsglc.html

• Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Links
  URL: http://www.duke.edu/lgb/links.html

• Queer Business, Legal & Workplace Issues
  URL: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/qlegal.html

• QueerLaw and QueerLaw-Digest
  URL: http://abacus.oxy.edu/~ron/queerlaw.html
  

  QUEERLAW is a list devoted to discussion, analysis and promulgation of queer legal theory and all other aspects of sexual orientation and The Law. The idea behind the list is to facilitate discussion between a diverse number of assorted groups ranging from law professors and law students to individuals inte rested in how The Law affects, and is affected by, sexual minorities.

  QUEERLAW is intended to be a general (unmoderated) discussion mailing list. However it has a specific focus on topics related to both sexual orientation and the law. There are a lot of topics which involve sexual orientation which may be best discussed on other lists. Two examples are immigration issues and same-sex marriage, which have their own mailing lists, QI and MARRIAGE, respectively.

• Queer Legal Resources
  URL: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/legal/

• Queer Resources Directory
  URL: http://www.casti.com/QRD/

• Womens Resources on the Internet
  URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/cheryb/women/wresources.html

• Worldwide Queer Information
  URL: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/world/

• Bill to Prohibit Same-Sex Marriage Wisconsin (USA)
  URL: http://www.stdorg.wisc.edu/LGBT/bill.html

• The Equal Marriage Rights Home Page (USA)
  URL: http://nether.net/~rod/html/sub/marriage.html

• Legal Analysis of the Validity of Same-Sex Marriages in Wisconsin .DATE. February 26, 1996 (USA)
  URL: http://www.stdorg.wisc.edu/lgbt/leg_council.html

• Representative Jensen memo response to above regarding same-sex marriage legal analysis.DATE. February 28, 1996 (USA)
  URL: http://www.stdorg.wisc.edu/lgbt/Jensen_memo.html

• Same-sex Marriage Resources (USA)
  URL: http://www.iac.net/~jt/gaypages.html

• Australian Law Librarians Group information about ALLG and links to Australian legal sites. Law librarians information and a link to their 1997 conference site "on the edge".
  URL: http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/allg/allg.html ALLG page
  URL: http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/edge/edge.html 1997 Conference

• Native Title Tribunal including determinations, annual reports and questions and answers.
  URL: http://www.nntt.gov.au/

• Northern Territory Legislation This database contains all the current consolidated Acts, Regulations, and By-Laws of the Northern Territory of Australia.
  URL: http://150.191.80.20/legislat/

Primary Legal Materials- Case law and statutes

• Northern Territory Legislation This database contains all the current consolidated Acts, Regulations, and By-Laws of the Northern Territory of Australia.
  URL: http://150.191.80.20/legislat/

• Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court selected decisions.
  URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/

• LIBS Latest Information for Barristers and Solicitors includes links to European law and associations (US & UK)
  URL: http://www.criminalbarristers.com/

Journals, newspapers and magazines

• Far Eastern Economic Review contents of each weeks issue plus searchable archive of older articles. Registration (free) is required.
  URL: http://www.feer.com/

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