E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321-8247 Volume 6 Number 3 (September, 1999) Copyright E Law and/or authors File: netw63.txt ftp://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw/issues/v6n3/netw63.txt http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v6n3/netw63.html ________________________________________________________________________ NetWatch: September 1999 Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Australian legal sites and developments * Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material * Air & Space Law * International Law * Asian Sites * Journals, Essays & Newspapers * Civil Liberties * Labour Law * Constitutional Law * Law Libraries * Crime and Criminology * Law Reform * Directories and Guides * Legal Publishers * Dispute Resolution * Legal Practice * Environmental Law * Reference materials and Search Engines * Family Law * Religon and the Law * History * Technology, the Internet - legal issues * Human Rights * Welfare Issues * Industrial/Labour Law * Workers Compensation * Intellectual Property ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Australian sites and developments Australian Bureau of Statistics World Wide Web Information Service. Australia Now (A statistical Profile) as well as key economic indicators under the Statistics button. URL: http://www.abs.gov.au/ Australia: Dept Foreign Affairs and Trade. Human Rights documents, speeches, media releases etc. URL: http://www.dfat.gov.au/hr/index.html Explanatory Statements for Commonwealth regulations and statutory rules on SCALEplus (1999+) URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/ess/browse/TOC.htm FRLI Federal Register of Legislative Instruments "a complete database of the images and index information of all legislative instruments in force as at, and registered after, the commencement of the Legislative Instruments Act" - still before Parliament. Includes statutory rules and orders. URL: http://frli.law.gov.au/cgi-bin/FRLI.cgi Lawsearch Online: a service launched recently by AusInfo which provides two levels of access (free and subscriber) to Commonwealth legislation and related documents. A free one month trial of the subscription service is available. URL: http://www.lawsearch.gov.au/ North Australia Research Unit at the Australian National University, Darwin. Several full text papers examining the relationship between Aboriginals and the land. [pdf] URL: http://online.anu.edu.au/naru/welcome.htm Odgers' Australian Senate Practice - Ninth Edition. "A detailed reference work on all aspects of the Senate's powers, procedures and practices". URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/Html/httoc.htm PANDORA Archive Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia a digital archive dedicated to the preservation of and long term access to Australian online publications of national significance. (National Library of Australia). The list is arranged alphabetically and although there is not a subject listing as yet, most law titles can be found by searching for law within the page. URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/pandora/archive.html Queensland Industrial Court Decisions 1999+ (on AustLII) URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QIC/ Queensland Industrial Relations Commission Decisions 1999+ (on AustLII) URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QIRComm/ Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/index.htm Primary Legal Materials on the Internet In translation and unauthorised: Chinalaw Web from the University of Maryland (USA) provides information about Chinese law and the legal system in greater China. Chinese Laws in English include links to laws of People's Republic of China (PRC)Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Portuguese Colony of Macau. Translations of laws are unauthorised and the site includes disclaimers clearling offering NO WARRENTY about information provided. Currency and clear citation statements are made at the top of individual 'laws'. URL : http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/index.html URL: http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/lawtran1.htm FRLI Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (Australia) "a complete database of the images and index information of all legislative instruments in force as at, and registered after, the commencement of the Legislative Instruments Act" - still before Parliament. Includes statutory rules and orders. URL: http://frli.law.gov.au/cgi-bin/FRLI.cgi InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (Organisation of American States) judgments & opinions, contentious cases, press releases and court information. URL: http://corteidh-oea.nu.or.cr/ci/HOME_ING.HTM Lawsearch Online: a service launched recently by AusInfo which provides two levels of access (free and subscriber) to Australian Commonwealth legislation and related documents. A free one month trial of the subscription service is available. URL: http://www.lawsearch.gov.au/ Maori Legal Resources A directory of Maori related internet and print resources. Links with annotated notes provide useful access to government departments, treaties and other documents. URL: http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/lawlib/site/mr.html Queensland Industrial Court Decisions 1999+ (on AustLII) URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QIC/ Queensland Industrial Relations Commission Decisions 1999+ (on AustLII) URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QIRComm/ South African Legislation - currency and comprehensiveness is difficult to determine, still an good starting point. URL: http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/ South Pacific Primary Legal Materials compiled by the University of South Pacific. URL: http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclawmat/Paclawmat_MAIN.html U.S. Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser Various important resources, from the US perspective, are available at this site these include: Treaties in Force: A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Forceas of January 1, 1997 [pdf] Current Treaty Action Private International Law Database URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/legal_adviser.html URL: http://www.acda.gov/state/ URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/treaty_actions_1999.html URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/private_intl_law.html Air & Space Law Institute of Air and Space Law International conventions in space and air & aviation law including a listing of the status of each country in relation to these conventions. URL: http://www.iasl.mcgill.ca/ Asian Sites Chinalaw Web from the University of Maryland (USA) provides information about Chinese law and the legal system in greater China. Chinese Laws in English include links to laws of People's Republic of China (PRC)Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Portuguese Colony of Macau. Translations of laws are unauthorised and the site includes disclaimers clearling offering NO WARRENTY about information provided. Currency and clear citation statements are made at the top of individual 'laws'. URL : http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/index.html URL: http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/lawtran1.htm Indian Parliament URL: http://alfa.nic.in/ South Pacific Primary Legal Materials compiled by the University of South Pacific. URL: http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclawmat/Paclawmat_MAIN.html Civil Liberties Religious Freedom Page Links to US Constitutional documents and decisions, and international documents and declarations related to religious freedom. URL: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/relfree/home.html Constitutional Law The American Presidency in the Twenty-First Century an issue from Perspectives on Law and the Public Interest from the University of Richmond. URL: http://www.urich.edu/~perspec/presiden.htm URL: http://www.urich.edu/~perspec/home-1.htm Odgers' Australian Senate Practice - Ninth Edition. "A detailed reference work on all aspects of the Senate's powers, procedures and practices". URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/Html/httoc.htm Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s "In more than 6000 pages of text, they record the great discussions and arguments which shaped Australia's Constitution, and clearly reveal the influences, persuasions and, personalities of our founding fathers. URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/index.htm Religious Freedom Page Links to US Constitutional documents and decisions, and international documents and declarations related to religious freedom. URL: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/relfree/home.html Crime and Criminology Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center information about suspects and defendants processed in the US Federal criminal justice system URL: http://fjsrc.urban.org/ Juvenile Offenders and Victims:1999 National Report [.pdf] from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Justice Information Centre. The National Report Notebook is a summary and easy access point to the findings in the national report URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/nationalreport99/toc.html URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/ URL: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/qrptnote.html Office for Victims of Crime (USA) Although US based there is a significant amount of information and links to support victims of crime. The site includes the International Crime Victim Compensation Program Directory 1989-99. Summary of legal status of victims of crime and relevant agency and contact details in each jurisdiction. URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/welcome.html URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/intdir/ Directories and Guides Foreign and International Law from the Washburn University School of Law Library. An excellent directory of resources URL: http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/ Legal 500 Series: directories of lawyers and firms worldwide, with a European emphasis, frm the International Centre for Commercial Law. URL: http://www.icclaw.com/ Dispute Resolution Early Dispute Resolution Task Force Report adopted by the Council of the Law Society (NSW). URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/practice/edr_taskforce_report/ URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/ International ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) is an "electronic forum that provides information on the principal aspects of international mediation and arbitration - treaties, national arbitration laws, judicial decisions and arbitral awards, institutions and rules, model clauses, arbitrators, recent articles and books, and upcoming conferences, events and seminars." Full text documents and/or links to relevant material. URL: http://www.internationaladr.com/ International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) includes relevant agreements and documents, index of decisions, some full text decisions and other publications. URL: http://www.worldbank.org/icsid/index.html Environmental Law Oceans and Law of the Sea UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) serves as the secretariat of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) includes judgments, instruments and other documents. URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm Family Law Family Court of Australia: Court Forms Do it your self kits. URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au/ URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au/forms/html/list.html URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au/html/kits.html History Digital Scriptorium: a collaborative venture from the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Manuscripts and documents from 8th to 15th century have been scanned, indexed and made available at this site. It is advisable to read the tips for searching the database before starting a search. URL: http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Scriptorium/ URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/scriptorium/dbtips.html Roman Law Resources Full text and secondary resources, and many valuable links. URL: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/%7Elaw113/rl/rl.htm Human Rights European Centre for Minority Issues Articles, monographs, reports and other documents. Full text of many documents [pdf]. URL: http://www.ecmi.de/ InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (Organisation of American States) judgments & opinions, contentious cases, press releases and court information. URL: http://corteidh-oea.nu.or.cr/ci/HOME_ING.HTM OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities includes reports on the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities URL: http://www.osceprag.cz/inst/hcnm/ URL: http://www.osceprag.cz/inst/hcnm/doxs/oslo/osleng.html Religious Freedom Page Links to US Constitutional documents and decisions, and international documents and declarations related to religious freedom. URL: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/relfree/home.html Statewatch : "monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union." Over 23,000 indexing records in the searchable database compiled from news, public, and government sources. Issues range through civil liberties, policing and human rights topics. A more extensive database with full text of debates etc avialable on subscription. URL: http://www.statewatch.org/ United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East URL: http://www.un.org/unrwa/ Intellectual Property Canadian Intellectual Propery Office includes the Canadian Patent Database covering 75 years of patents, although records prior to 1975 are incomplete. URL: http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions (Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon LLP): A brief synopsis of US court decisions shaping the law of the web. Decisions are indexed alphabetically by the New Media subject matter including: copyright, trademark, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, meta tags, clip-art, defamation, domain name, e-mail, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink-wrap licenses, spamming and more. URL: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib.htm IP Menu from Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick: a guide to intellectual property resources on the internet. URL: http://www.ipmenu.com/ USPTO Web Patent Databases (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. Search engines and contents pages make this site easy to navigate. Coverage is from 1/1/1976 and is updated weekly. URL: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/ World Intellectual Property Organization: an organization for the future. The library link includes text of WIPO WIPO-administered treaties as well as status of ratifications of WIPO-administered treaties. URL: http://www.wipo.int/ International Law American Society of International Law (ASIL). Search contents pages of International Legal Materials, American Journal of International Law (some full text articles included) and full text of International Law in Brief and other publications put out by ASIL. URL: http://www.asil.org/search.cfm Foreign and International Law from the Washburn University School of Law Library. An excellent directory of resources URL: http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/ Institute of Air and Space Law International conventions in space and air & aviation law including a listing of the status of each country in relation to these conventions. URL: http://www.iasl.mcgill.ca/ International ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) is an "electronic forum that provides information on the principal aspects of international mediation and arbitration - treaties, national arbitration laws, judicial decisions and arbitral awards, institutions and rules, model clauses, arbitrators, recent articles and books, and upcoming conferences, events and seminars." Full text documents and/or links to relevant material. URL: http://www.internationaladr.com/ International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) includes relevant agreements and documents, index of decisions, some full text decisions and other publications. URL: http://www.worldbank.org/icsid/index.html Oceans and Law of the Sea UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) serves as the secretariat of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) includes judgments, instruments and other documents. URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm UN Economic and Social Council Welcome, documents and resolutions. Archives of resolutions back to 1982, other documents start in 1994 URL: http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ecosoc/ URL: http://www.un.org/esa/coordination/ecosoc/archives.htm United Nations Chronicle - online edition (selected articles from print edition) URL: http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/index.html U.S. Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser Various important resources, from the US perspective, are available at this site these include: Treaties in Force: A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Forceas of January 1, 1997 [pdf] Current Treaty Action Private International Law Database URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/legal_adviser.html URL: http://www.acda.gov/state/ URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/treaty_actions_1999.html URL: http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/private_intl_law.html Journals, Essays & Newspaper American Society of International Law (ASIL). Search contents pages of International Legal Materials,American Journal of International Law (some full text articles included) and full text of International Law in Brief and other publications put out by ASIL. URL: http://www.asil.org/search.cfm Butterworths Tables of Contents : contents pages from the latest issues of their Australian journals. URL: http://www.butterworths.com.au/journalcontents/journals_index.htm Computers in Libraries partially online journal with abstracts and a selection of full text articles. For the librarian and webpage designer. URL: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/ciltop.htm Electronic Journal of Comparative Law publishes articles relating to comparative private law and the methodology of comparative law. Many articles peer reviewed. Online collection full text articles: 1997 + URL: http://law.kub.nl/ejcl/ Law Society Journal with searchable archives from 1993 onwards from the Law Society of New South Wales URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/resources/lsj/archive/ URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/resources/lsj/search.html URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/ Legal Briefings - from the Australian Government Solicitor. URL: http://ags.gov.au/publications/briefings/index.html Journal of Technology Law & Policy articles concerning legal issues in technology as well as policy a University of Florida student publication. URL: http://journal.law.ufl.edu/~techlaw/ PANDORA Archive Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia a digital archive dedicated to the preservation of and long term access to Australian online publications of national significance. (National Library of Australia). The list is arranged alphabetically and although there is not a subject listing as yet, most law titles can be found by searching for law within the page. URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/pandora/archive.html Perspectives on Law and the Public Interest from the University of Richmond: each issue contains essays on a single topic such as: Welfare Reform: A New Deal for the 90s [USA] and The American Presidency in the Twenty-First Century URL: http://www.urich.edu/~perspec/home-1.htm URL: http://www.urich.edu/~perspec/welfare.htm URL: http://www.urich.edu/~perspec/presiden.htm United Nations Chronicle - online edition (selected articles from print edition) URL: http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/index.html Labour Law U. S. Department of Labor Office of Administrative Law Judges Rules of Practice, statutes, comments and decisions in relation to industrial/labour issues such as 'black lung', 'whistleblower', 'immigration', etc. URL: http://www.oalj.dol.gov/ Law Libraries Computers in Libraries partially online journal with abstracts and a selection of full text articles. For the librarian and webpage designer. URL: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/ciltop.htm lis-moys-users Moys users web page for users of the Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials. The will be the primary means whereby the 3rd edition of the classification scheme is maintained and updated. URL: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/lis-moys-users Law Reform Review of the Federal Civil Justice System ALRC DP 62 URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/dp/62/ Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong. Recent reports (1995+) and papers available for downloading [MS word 6.0 or above] URL: http://www.info.gov.hk/justice/system/12a/content.htm Queensland Law Reform Commission: Full text of recent reports, working papers and other publications [pdf] URL: http://www.qlrc.qld.gov.au Victorian Law Reform Committee URL: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/lawreform/ Legal Publishers Excata is an Australian based legal, academic, professional books and information supplier representating a range of European and Asia Pacific Region publishers, retailers and information suppliers. URL: http://www.excata.com/ Legal Practice Butterworths Tables of Contents : contents pages from the latest issues of their Australian journals URL: http://www.butterworths.com.au/journalcontents/journals_index.htm Electronic Court Filing Project : Funded by the Georgia Courts Automation Commission pursuant to Georgia's Electronic Records and Signatures Act (1997). Discussion papers and other documents at the site focus on the legal, technical, and policy implications of digital signature technology. URL: http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/gsuecp/ Family Court of Australia: Court Forms Do it your self kits. URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au/ URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au/forms/html/list.html URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au/html/kits.html Law Society of New South Wales - including media releases and there are an extensive range of policies, papers, reports and guidelines. Full text of the Law Society Journal with searchable archives from 1993 onwards is available along with other Law Society publications. URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/ URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/about/papers/ URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/resources/lsj/archive/ URL: http://www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/resources/lsj/search.html Victorian Law Reform Committee's QUICKGUIDE on the Fences Act 1968 (Victoria): The Layperson's Guide to Fencing Law. Although the law varies between jurisdictions this guide has value for focusing the isses for clients. URL: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/lawreform/ URL: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/lawreform/fences/default.htm Religion and the Law Religious Freedom Page Links to US Constitutional documents and decisions, and international documents and declarations related to religious freedom. URL: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/relfree/home.html Reference materials and Search Engines Latin Dictionary and Grammer Aid URL: http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm Perseus Project from the Dept of Classics at Tufts University: The Latin dictionary, an online version of the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary and the Greek Dictionary URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Latin URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=Greek Perpetual Calendar To look up a calendar month, type in the month, followed by a space, then the year. For March 1883: 3 1883, from the University of Notre Dame URL: http://cawley.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/perpetua.cgi Words (latin) by William Whitaker URL: http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe Technology, the Internet - legal issues Berkman Center for Internet and Society Their " mission is to investigate the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, of commerce, of government, and of education, and the relationship of law to each." Site includes discussion, papers and real time presentations from conferences and other documents. URL: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Communications Media Center at New York Law School: "statutory, regulatory, judicial and scholarly materials in the fields of communication, information and media." URL: http://www.cmcnyls.edu/default.html-ssi Electronic Court Filing Project: Funded by the Georgia Courts Automation Commission pursuant to Georgia's Electronic Records and Signatures Act (1997). Discussion papers and other documents at the site focus on the legal, technical, and policy implications of digital signature technology. URL: http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/gsuecp/ Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions (Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon LLP): A brief synopsis of US court decisions shaping the law of the web. Decisions are indexed alphabetically by the New Media subject matter including: copyright, trademark, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, meta tags, clip-art, defamation, domain name, e-mail, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink-wrap licenses, spamming and more. URL: http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib.htm Journal of Technology Law & Policy articles concerning legal issues in technology as well as policy a University of Florida student publication. URL: http://journal.law.ufl.edu/~techlaw/ Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - funded by Telecommunications Education Trust, a program of the California Public Utilities Commission. Fact sheets, policy statements and privacy cases listed. URL: http://www.privacyrights.org/ Welfare Issues Welfare Reform: A New Deal for the 90s [USA] in the Perspectives on Law and the Public Interest from the University of Richmond. URL: http://www.urich.edu/~perspec/welfare.htm URL: http://www.urich.edu/~perspec/home-1.htm Workers Compensation U. S. Department of Labor Office of Administrative Law Judges Rules of Practice, statutes, comments and decisions in relation to industrial/labour issues such as 'black lung', 'whistleblower', 'immigration', etc. URL: http://www.oalj.dol.gov/