NetWatch June 1997

Author:	Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Subjects:	Internet computer network (Other articles) Legal research (Other articles)
Issue:	Volume 4, Number 2 (June 1997)
Category:	NetWatch

• Australian legal sites and developments
  
• Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material
  

• Art Law
  
• Criminal law and Criminology
  
• Human Rights
  
• Intellectual Property
• International Law
  
• Legal Education
  
• Technology and the Law
• Directories and Internet tools
  
• Citations for both legal and internet resources
  
• Email Lists and Archives
  
• Journals

• The Australian newspaper includes a button link called specials. This link is a subject arrangement of news stories and links to topical issues such as Wik, The Stolen Children, Euthanasia and more.
  
  URL: http://www.australian.aust.com/
  
  URL: http://www.australian.aust.com/specials/special.htm

  Bringing them home National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. About the Inquiry, a community guide to the report and other documentation.
  

  URL: http://WWW.HREOC.GOV.AU/nat_inq/inq_cont.htm

  Copyright Law Review Committee (Austraiia) includes Reference to Simplify the Copyright Act 1968 and submission to the Committee.
  

  URL: http://www.agps.gov.au/customer/agd/clrc

  Department of Productivity and Labour Relations (Western Australia) includes the controversial labour relations act.
  

  URL: http://www.wa.gov.au/doplar/index2.html

  LawNet A well organised directory of Australian Legal Resources and News. In particular note the links to Wik Developments which looks fairly comprehensive.
  

  URL: http://www.lawnet.com.au/

  OSIRIS

  Australian Federal industrial awards, Agreements and associated documents
  URL: http://indrel.agps.gov.au/

• European Court of Human Rights includes texts, pending cases and judgments from 1959+
  
  URL: http://www.dhcour.coe.fr/default.htm

  House of Lords Judicial Business Decisions handed down since 14 November 1996.
  

  URL: http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld/ldjudinf.htm

  The Provisional Legislative Council - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. This includes Bills, Rules of Procedure and other legislative information.
  

  URL: http://www.legco.gov.hk/

  Statutory Instruments (UK)

  URL: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/stat.htm

• Art Law substantive law information related to art, artists, and transactions in works of art
  
  URL: http://www.molton.com/artlaw.html

Criminal Law and Criminology

• The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices and Alleged Misconduct in Explosives-Related and Other Cases (April,1997)
  
  URL: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/fbilab1/fbil1toc.htm

  Uniform Crime Reports 1996 [pdf file] from U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation - US Crime Statistics
  

  URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucrpre96.htm
  

  Number Crunchers Precision Journalism® which take raw crime statistics data and creates useful comparative tables.
  

  URL: http://www.crunch.com/01nc/01nc.htm

Human Rights

• European Court of Human Rights includes texts, pending cases and judgments from 1959+
  
  URL: http://www.dhcour.coe.fr/default.htm

• Copyright Law Review Committee (Australia) includes Reference to Simplify the Copyright Act 1968 and submission to the Committee.
  
  URL: http://www.agps.gov.au/customer/agd/clrc

• RAVE is a bibliographic database listing references to articles and decisions in public international law and European law. (In German)
  
  URL: http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/Jura/kokott/rave/e/englhome.htm

  United Nations Treaty Databases recently updated - UN treaties plus the current status of Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary General
  

  URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/Treaty/

  United Nations Development Programme Sustainable Human Development. This index includes Human Development Report 1997, the Poverty Clock, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), HIV and Development Programme, the UNDP Sponsoring Conference on "Knowledge for Development in the Information Age" and more.
  

  URL: http://www.undp.org/

• Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Information about clinical legal educators and a "chat/discussion" area
  
  URL: http://www.clea.cornell.edu/

  Interactive Courtroom from the Practising Law Institute and cle-netInteractive and audio presentations for continuing legal education (USA)
  

  URL: http://www.clegroup.com/
  

  URL: http://www.clegroup.com/cle_net/index.htm

• European Commission Legal Advisory Board for the Information Market
  URL: http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/labhome.html

• Attorney's Toolbox by Randy B. Singer, Esq. A collection of directories and internet tools for those interested in US law.
  
  URL: http://www.mother.com/~randy/tools.html

  Foreign and International Law from the University of Chicago Library - in particular note the straight forward arrangement of primary materials under the heading "Laws of Foreign Countries".

  URL: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/intl.html

  Just the LawLinks Newsletter Directory A weekly newsletter with lists of new internet sites.
  

  URL: http://www.lawresearch.com/Volweb.htm

  Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet by Lyonette Louis-Jacques is another easy to use list of relevant sites.
  

  URL: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/forintlaw.html

  Medical and LawResearch Dictionary - a dictionary/directory of definitions, discussion and internet sites. A good starting point for medical legal research entry.
  

  URL: http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/mindex.htm

  RAVE is a bibliographic database listing research of articles and decisions in public international law and European law
  

  URL: http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/Jura/kokott/rave/e/englhome.htm

Citation

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (1995-96 ed.) by Peter W. Martin (Cornell Law School) is a primer based on the Fifteenth Edition of the "Bluebook."
  
  URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/citation.table.html

  Pitsco Technology Education Web Site includes a Launch to Citing WWW Addreses : A list of sites which deal with the problems of internet citation protocols.
  

  URL: http://www.pitsco.com/pitsco/cite.html

  Legal Citation Guide Murdoch University
  

  URL: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~zariski/citation.html

• Law-Related Listservs--Regent University Law Library. A well constructed catagorised listing of legal discussion lists.
  
  URL: http://www.regent.edu/lawlib/lists/list-law.html

  Email overload? Solve the problem by consulting the current archives of law librarians lists provided by Law Journal EXTRA!
  

  Archives held include those for Internet Mailing Lists for US Law Librarians (LAW-LIB), International Law Librarians (INT-LAW) and for Legal Reference Librarians (LAWLIBREF-L ).
  

  URL: http://library.ljextra.com/maillist.html
  

  URL LAW-LIB: http://www.ljx.com/public/mailinglists/uclaw-lib/index.html
  

  URL INT-LAW: http://www.ljx.com/public/mailinglists/intlaw-l/index.html
  

  URL LAWLIBREF-L : http://www.ljx.com/public/mailinglists/wwwlawlibref-l/index.html
  

  Archives of the Canadian Law Librarians List (CALL-L@LISTSERV.UNB.CA) is also available for browsing.
  

  URL: http://listserv.unb.ca/archives/call-l.html

  Archives for the last 12 months for the UK Law Librarians List (LIS-LAW)
  

  URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/lis-law/search.html

  cti-law archives (Lawyers and Computers Discussion List).

  URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-a-e/cti-law/

  Older archives for a range of listservs (upto December 1996) are available at Cornell

  URL: http://mailmunch.law.cornell.edu/listservs/

  The Legal Domain Network Legal Resources - access to archives of listservs and usenet groups from the Chicago-Kent School of Law

  URL: http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawnet/lawnet.html
  

  URL: http://www.kentlaw.edu/cgi-bin/ldn_news/-G+law

  Directory of Law-Related Discussion Groups including archives where available University of Oklahoma Law Center

  URL: http://www.law.uoknor.edu/lists.html

  Listproc archives

  URL: http://ftplaw.wuacc.edu/listproc/

• Ideas Magazine a general Internet magazine covering social justice, sustainable environment and more.
  
  URL: http://www.nor.com.au/business/upstarts/site/ideas/ideas_directory.html