NetWatch: December 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 Asian Sites Conference Papers Directories and Internet tools Email Lists, Discussion Forums and Archives Environmental Law Family Law Gender Issues and the Law Human Rights Industrial Relations Intellectual Property International Law Journals & Newspapers Legal Education Reference materials Reports Technology and the Law Australian sites and developments Australian Capital Territory Legislature URL: http://www.legassembly.act.gov.au/ Australian Constitutional Convention 2-13 February 1998 (hansard of convention). URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/conv/hancon.htm Australian Industrial Relations Commission Legislation, hearings, major decisions and a searchable index of awards, agreements, decisions and decision summaries at OSIRIS URL: http://www.airc.gov.au/ URL: http://indrel.agps.gov.au/ Internet Sites for Lawyers Computerised Legal Research By Ron Huttner. A well organised directory of Australian, and other, legal sites. URL: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/research/research.html Queensland Building Tribunal decisions have been added to AustLII URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QLDBT/ Supreme Court of New South Wales decisions June 1995+ now added to AustLII. URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/supreme_ct/ Primary Legal Materials Delgamuukw v. British Columbia Breakthrough Canadian land rights case URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/doc/csc-scc/en/rec/html/delgamuu.en.html Queensland Building Tribunal decisions have been added to AustLII URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QLDBT/ Supreme Court of New South Wales decisions June 1995+ now added to AustLII. URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/supreme_ct/ Asian Sites What Caused Asia's Economic and Currency Crisis and Its Global Contagion? by Nouriel Roubini An interesting list of sites and articles in relation to this crisis. URL: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/asia/AsiaHomepage.html Conferences Papers and abstracts from one of two 1997 library related conferences organized by the UK Office for Library and Information Networking has made available. Issues covered include research and development, measurement, metadata, authentication, and intellectual property. Training skills and training for the digital age, and the impacts of the digital library on staff training. Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri078/content/ US Mirror URL: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html Training for Change: New Skills for the Electronic Library URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/ans-1997/ Directories and Internet tools COUNSEL QUEST offers substantive links to legal and government resources available on the internet URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~parajuris/CounselQuest/ Directory of Decisions (NZ) information about New Zealand courts, jurisdiction, decisions and availablity. URL: http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/lawlib/decisions/menu.html Federal Web Locator service from the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy. This directory is designed to be a one-stop kiosk for jumping off to US federal sites. URL: http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html Foreign and International Law Resources on the Internet--Cornell Law Library Foreign and International Law Sources on the Internet: Annotated is a selective guide to web sites providing links to texts of laws and court decisions, international documents, directories, trade information, and/or statistics. Law Journals on the Internet - an excellent listing and categorisation of internet law journals from Flinders University. URL: http://www.lib.flinders.edu.au/resources/sub/law/LEGALJ.HTM Email Discussion Lists LEGALED A discussion list set up to encourage discussion and information exchange about teaching and learning issues in law. Send an email message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with this command in the body of the message join LEGALED YOUR FIRST AND LASTNAME Review discussion at the Mailbase Archives URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/legaled/ Environmental Law Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/delpf/ Family Law Important Canadian Family Law Cases URL: http://wwlia.org/~wwlia/ca-famca.htm Gender Issues and the Law Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/ Human Rights Delgamuukw v. British Columbia Breakthrough Canadian land rights case URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/doc/csc-scc/en/rec/html/delgamuu.en.html Industrial Relations Directory of Decisions (NZ) information about New Zealand courts, jurisdiction, decisions and availablity. URL: http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/lawlib/decisions/menu.html Intellectual Property Copyright and Fair Use from Stanford University Libraries URL: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ International Law Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djcil/ Journals & Newspapers Duke University School of Law Journals Duke University's School of Law now provides the full text of six of its journals at this website: Duke Law Journal, Law & Contemporary Problems, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, and Alaska Law Review. At present, only the most recent issue of each journal is available. All journals are searchable, and retrieval can also be achieved via volume, page, and year. URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/ International Journal of Legal Medicine - (full text - pdf format). URL: http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00414/index.htm Law Journals on the Internet - an excellent listing and categorisation of internet law journals from Flinders University. URL: http://www.lib.flinders.edu.au/resources/sub/law/LEGALJ.HTM National Law Review from the Queensland Law Foundation Technology Services Pty Ltd. URL: http://www.nlr.com.au/ENTRY.HTM Stanford Technology Law Review URL: http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Core_Page/index.htm Legal Education Australian Journal of Educational Technology URL: http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/gen/aset/ajet.html Colorado State University Online Writing Center Reference Materials. An excellent site providing guides to the purpose and structure of a wide variety of written documents. URL: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/WritingCenter/reference.htm Computer Law Observer - covering a wide range of cutting-edge legal issues relating to computers, technology and the Internet. URL: http://www.lawcircle.com/observer Review discussion on LegalEd discussion list at the Mailbase Archives URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/legaled/ JURIST: The Law Professors' Network now has an Austalian mirror site at this address. URL: http://law.anu.edu.au/jurist/ Tarlton Law Library - Law in Popular Culture Collection URL: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/lpop.htm Bibliography of the lawyer in popular culture - movie stills, lists of books, reviews and discussion. Teaching Learning Forum Proceedings URL: http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/asu/pubs/tlf/tlf-pubs.html Papers and abstracts from one of two 1997 library related conferences organized by the UK Office for Library and Information Networking has made available. Issues covered include research and development, measurement, metadata, authentication, and intellectual property. Training skills and training for the digital age, and the impacts of the digital library on staff training. Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri078/content/ US Mirror URL: http://www.cni.org/regconfs/1997/uk-content.html Training for Change: New Skills for the Electronic Library URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/ans-1997/ Reference works Guide to Legal Research Materials A guide to legal sources held at UNSW. It also functions as a brief, up-to-date guide to the major research tools available either in print or electronically. URL: http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~law/guide/guide1.html Pink Ribbon Publishing CoAn Australian publisher providing Case Base an electronic case law indexing service, online and CD access. URL: http://www.pinkribbon.com.au Reports Law Reform Committee Victoria, Australia. Includes the report from their Inquiry into regulatory efficiency and the terms of reference for an Examination of Technology and the law URL: http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~lawref/ Technology and Law Computer Law Observer - covering a wide range of cutting-edge legal issues relating to computers, technology and the Internet. URL: http://www.lawcircle.com/observer Law Reform Committee Victoria, Australia. Includes the terms of reference for an Examination of Technology and the law URL: http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/~lawref/ Stanford Technology Law Review URL: http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Core_Page/index.htm