E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321-9447 Volume 9 Number 4 (December 2002) Copyright E Law and author ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v9n4/netw94.txt http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v9n4/netw94.html ________________________________________________________________________ NetWatch December 2002 Anne Greenshields Law Liaison Librarian, Murdoch University Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Australian legal sites and developments * Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material * Asian Sites * Intellectual Property * Children and the Law * International Law * Corporate & Commercial * International Relations * Criminal Law & Justice * Journals, Essays & Newspapers * Directories and Guides * Law Reform * Dispute Resolution * Legal Publishers * Free Speech * Migration * Human Rights * Technology and the Law * Indigenous Issues ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Australian sites and developments The Australian Consumer Handbook [pdf] / Department of Treasury (Federal) downloadable in full or by sections. URL: http://www.consumersonline.gov.au/content/resources_handbook.asp Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Report: Breaches of Human Rights of Six Asylum Seekers Transferred from Immigration Detention Centres to State Prisons. (Australia, HREOC Report 21) URL: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/human_rights_reports/hrc_report_21.html The House of Aboriginality - "copyright & cultural integrity issues in the merchandising of Aboriginal imagery" URL: http://www.mq.edu.au/house_of_aboriginality/index.htm New South Wales Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Decisions "the database contains selected decisions of the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal of New South Wales from 2002. This Tribunal was formed in February 2002 and takes over the roles previously fulfilled by the Fair Trading and Residential Tribunals." URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWCTTT/ New Zealand Legislation (NZ Parliamentary Counsel Office) Provides free access to unofficial versions of New Zealand Statutes and Statutory Regulations. This is intended to be temporary web site, to be replaced in early 2003 by an official PCO web site that will provide free public access to New Zealand legislation, including Acts, Regulations, and Bills. Browser problems: Browsable and searchable using Netscape. IE was unsatisfactory for this site which is still under development. URL: http://www.legislation.govt.nz Primary Legal Materials on the Internet Generic Top Level Domain Name (gTLD) Decisions 2002+ . "This database contains decisions by panels appointed by Dispute Resolution Service Providers under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). The decisions concern disputes relating to domain names in the .aero, .biz, .com, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, .net, and .org top-level domains (otherwise known as the generic top-level domains or gTLDs)." URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/GENDND/ International Criminal Court URL: http://www.un.org/law/icc/ New Zealand Legislation (NZ Parliamentary Counsel Office) Provides free access to unofficial versions of New Zealand Statutes and Statutory Regulations. This is intended to be temporary web site, to be replaced in early 2003 by an official PCO web site that will provide free public access to New Zealand legislation, including Acts, Regulations, and Bills. Browser problems: Browsable and searchable using Netscape. IE was unsatisfactory for this site which is still under development. URL: http://www.legislation.govt.nz Tribal Court Clearinghouse - American Indian Nation's compilation of their laws - Codes and Constitutions. URL: http://www.tribal-institute.org/ World Legal Information Institute "Free, independent and nonprofit access to worldwide law" a collaborative project from AustLII, BAILII, CanLII, PacLII, Wits Law School, HKLII, LII. An essential starting point for accessing primary legal materials from national and international jurisdictions. URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ Mongolia - Legislation (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2100.html URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ China - Legislation (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2149.html URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions 1996+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions from 1996 (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOAB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions 1998+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions since its establishment in 1997. (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOARB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ Asian Sites A Complete Research Guide to the Laws of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from LLRX.com URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/prc.htm URL: http://www.llrx.com/ World Legal Information Institute "Free, independent and nonprofit access to worldwide law" Many Asian jurisdictions covered. URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ Mongolia - Legislation (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2100.html URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ China - Legislation (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2149.html URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ Children and the law Kidnaping of Juveniles: Patterns from National Incident-Based Reporting System, report from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Protection (OJJDP) which "describes the offense of kidnaping of juveniles." (USA) URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/2000_6_2/contents.html Corporate and Commercial Law Fighting Corporate and Government Wrongdoing: A Research Guide to International and US Federal Laws on White-collar Crime and Corruption from LLRX.com URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/whitecollarcrime.htm URL: http://www.llrx.com World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions 1996+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions from 1996 (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOAB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions 1998+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions since its establishment in 1997. (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOARB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ Criminal Law and Justice Globalisation, Drugs, and Criminalisation: Final Research Report on Brazil, China, India, and Mexico [.pdf] (UNESDOC) URL: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001276/127644e.pdf URL: http://unesdoc.unesco.org International Criminal Court URL: http://www.un.org/law/icc/ Kidnaping of Juveniles: Patterns from National Incident-Based Reporting System, report from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Protection (OJJDP) which "describes the offense of kidnaping of juveniles." (USA) URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/2000_6_2/contents.html Directories and Guides A Complete Research Guide to the Laws of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from LLRX.com URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/prc.htm URL: http://www.llrx.com/ The International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) URL: http://www.icdri.org/ Dispute Resolution The Australian Consumer Handbook [pdf] / Department of Treasury (Federal) available to download in full or by sections. URL: http://www.consumersonline.gov.au/content/resources_handbook.asp International Crisis Group (ICG) is "an independent, nonprofit, multinational organisation, with over 80 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict." Full text of reports and media releases. URL: http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/ World Legal Information Institute "Free, independent and nonprofit access to worldwide law" a collaborative project from AustLII, BAILII, CanLII, PacLII, Wits Law School, HKLII, LII. An essential starting point for accessing primary legal materials from national and international jurisdictions. URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions 1998+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions since its establishment in 1997. (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOARB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ Free Speech Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press "a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free legal assistance to journalists since 1970" URL: http://www.rcfp.org/ Human Rights Highlighting Human Rights in Ontario From the collections of the Archives of Ontario URL: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/humnrits/index.html Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Report: Breaches of Human Rights of Six Asylum Seekers Transferred from Immigration Detention Centres to State Prisons. (Australia, HREOC Report 21) URL: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/human_rights_reports/hrc_report_21.html UNESDOC - access to UNESCO full text documents URL: http://unesdoc.unesco.org Indigenous Issues Tribal Court Clearinghouse "devoted to providing information to people working in Native American tribal courts". Tribal Codes and Constitutions, journal articles, reports and discussions. URL: http://www.tribal-institute.org/ Intellectual Property beSpacific a newsletter which "focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology news. Daily postings provide updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, e-commerce, e-government and freedom of information" URL: http://www.bespacific.com Bytes in Brief news, digest notes of cases and legislation related to "online filtering, the Microsoft antitrust case, SEC information distribution, patents, music piracy, electronic publishing, and Internet pornography. An archive of all issues goes back to 1997." (Sensei Enterprises, USA) URL: http://www.senseient.com/default.asp?page=bytesinbrief/default.htm The House of Aboriginality - "copyright & cultural integrity issues in the merchandising of Aboriginal imagery" URL: http://www.mq.edu.au/house_of_aboriginality/index.htm World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions 1996+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions from 1996 (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOAB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions 1998+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions since its establishment in 1997. (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOARB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ International Law Documents on Terrorism (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School) URL: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/terrorism/terror.htm International Crisis Group (ICG) is "an independent, nonprofit, multinational organisation, with over 80 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict." Full text of reports and media releases. URL: http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/ UNESDOC - access to UNESCO full text documents URL: http://unesdoc.unesco.org Globalisation, Drugs, and Criminalisation: Final Research Report on Brazil, China, India, and Mexico [.pdf] http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001276/127644e.pdf World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions 1996+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Appellate Body Decisions from 1996 (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOAB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions 1998+ Full text decisions of the World Trade Organization Arbitrators Decisions since its establishment in 1997. (onWorldLII) URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/WTOARB/ URL: http://www.worldlii.org/ International Relations Documents on Terrorism (Historical and contemporary documents from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School) URL: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/terrorism/terror.htm Journals, Conference Papers, Essays & Newspapers Appeal Review of Current Law and Law Reform (Canada) "Provides a forum on current legal issues and law reform. Full text of articles [PDF] The journal is run by students of the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. URL: http://appeal.law.uvic.ca/ beSpacific a newsletter which "focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology news. Daily postings provide updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, e-commerce, e-government and freedom of information" URL: http://www.bespacific.com German Law Journal: review of developments in German, European and International jurisprudence (English language) URL: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/ Speaking Plainly: Plain Language Law for Non-Lawyers. Papers from a seminar run by the The Law and Justice Foundation. The focus of the seminar was communication of legal issues to non-lawyers (12th September 2002) URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/information/pll/seminar.html Law Reform Appeal Review of Current Law and Law Reform (Canada) "Provides a forum on current legal issues and law reform. Full text of articles [PDF] The journal is run by students of the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. URL: http://appeal.law.uvic.ca/ Legal Publishers Intersentia -"independent academic publisher. We publish books, journals and electronic products in the field of law, business and economics." URL: http://www.intersentia.be/English/index.shtml Migration Center for Immigration Studies "a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute which examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States" URL: http://www.cis.org/ Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: Report: Breaches of Human Rights of Six Asylum Seekers Transferred from Immigration Detention Centres to State Prisons. (Australia, HREOC Report 21) URL: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/human_rights_reports/hrc_report_21.html Technology and the Law Bytes in Brief news, digest notes of cases and legislation related to "online filtering, the Microsoft antitrust case, SEC information distribution, patents, music piracy, electronic publishing, and Internet pornography. An archive of all issues goes back to 1997." (Sensei Enterprises, USA) URL: http://www.senseient.com/default.asp?page=bytesinbrief/default.htm Generic Top Level Domain Name (gTLD) Decisions 2002+ . "This database contains decisions by panels appointed by Dispute Resolution Service Providers under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). The decisions concern disputes relating to domain names in the .aero, Biz, .com, Coop, Info, Museum, Name, Net, and .org top-level domains (otherwise known as the generic top-level domains or gTLDs)." URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/GENDND/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------