E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321-8247 Volume 4 Number 2 (June 1997) Copyright E Law and/or authors File: netw42.txt ftp://www.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw/issues/v4n2/netw42.txt http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v4n2/netw42.html ________________________________________________________________________ E Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Vol 4, No 2 (June 1997) NetWatch: June 1997 Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University Library * 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 Australian sites and developments * 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 (Australia) 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/ Primary Legal Materials on the Internet * 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 * 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(r) 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 Intellectual Property * 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 International Law * 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/ Legal Education * 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 Technology and the Law * European Commission Legal Advisory Board for the Information Market URL: http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/labhome.html Directories and Internet tools * 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 Email Lists and Archives * 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/ Journals * 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