NetWatch December 1998 - [1998] MurUEJL 25

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

Australian Institute of CriminologySelected publications and statistics available in full text

URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/index.html

Australian Parliament has loaded Bills 1998+ (rtf) and Explanatory Memoranda 1998+ (rtf) at ScalePlus

URL: Bills - http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/bills/browse/TOC.htm

URL: EM's - http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/ems/browse/TOC.htm

URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/

Copyright Law Review Committee

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

Hansard. Parliament of Western Australia 35th Parliment + (6th March 1997 onwards) . Fully searchable with a range of options.

URL: http://www.slp.wa.gov.au:8080/hansard/hans35.nsf/hansard+menu/index.html

IP Australia An overview of concepts and issues.

URL: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/intell/ipsintro.htm

Law Link NSW : the law and you. (NSW Attorney Generals Department). A very good overview of the relationship between individuals and legal institutions in New South Wales. Useful for other Australian jurisdictions as a guide to the legal process.

URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/

Law for You: plain English legal information. Focus is for NSW and Victoria but the principles and points covered will give an idea of the issues involved.

URL: http://www.law4u.com.au/index.asp

Netjustice: Human Rights: An excellent site - but very slow to load.

URL: http://www.netjustice.com.au/cgi-bin/wsisa.dll/WService=idi/memlogin?id=amnesty

NSW Law Reform Commission & Community Law Reform Program References. Full text of selected Reports published since 1968.

URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc.nsf/pages/lrcindex.reports

Queensland Bills and Explanatory Memorandum

URL: http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/Bills.htm

Queensland Law Reform Commission Reports No. 52+, Working Papers 50+

URL: http://www.qlrc.qld.gov.au/

Queensland Supreme and Court of Appeal judgments (End of 1998+) AustLII.

Select the Search Austlii databases for the basic search option or try the Extended Search Form.

URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au

URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/do/form.pl

URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/do2/form.pl?formtype=extended

Victorian Society for Computers and the Law Inc. Local news, reports, and links to the Australian and New Zealand Computers and Law Journal with selected full text articles.

URL: http://www.vscl.org.au/

URL: http://www.vscl.org.au/JOURNAL.HTM

Australian Parliament has loaded Bills 1998+ (rtf) and Explanatory Memoranda 1998+ (rtf) at ScalePlus

URL: Bills - http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/bills/browse/TOC.htm

URL: EM's - http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/ems/browse/TOC.htm

URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/

Casebase: An index service offering access to UK judgments within the Courts of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions) and QBD (Crown Office). From Smith Bernal, official reporters to the Court of Appeal.

URL: http://www.smithbernal.com/casebase_frame.htm

CIMEL - Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Links to primary materials and articles.

URL: http://www.soas.ac.uk./Centres/IslamicLaw/Materials.html

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) A comprehensive collection of treaties

URL: http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/

A Guide to Japanese LawThis site will provide you with information on Japanese law in English, including translations of selected statutes and articles

URL: http://home.highway.or.jp/JAPANLAW/index.htm

Internet Chinese Legal Research Center (from Washington University School of Law, Library). An effective gateway to relevant legal resources for Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Guides to researching Chinese law are also useful.

URL: http://ls.wustl.edu/Chinalaw/

Pacific Law Materials The School of Law from the University of the South Pacific has made available a collection of recent judgments from South Pacific countries.

URL: http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/Paclawmat/Paclawmat_MAIN.html

Queensland Bills and Explanatory Memorandum

URL: http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/Bills.htm

Queensland Law Reform Commission Reports No. 52+, Working Papers 50+

URL: http://www.qlrc.qld.gov.au/

Queensland Supreme and Court of Appeal judgments (End of 1998+) AustLII.

Select the Search Austlii databases for the basic search option or try the Extended Search Form.

URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au

URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/do/form.pl

URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/do2/form.pl?formtype=extended

E-com Legal Guide (Electronic Commerce Legal Guide). A practical first level legal guide to electronic commerce in the APEC member economies, contributed by Baker & McKenzie and other leading law firms in the region

URL: http://www.bakerinfo.com/apec/

A Guide to Japanese Law: Information on Japanese law in English, including translations (unsourced/unauthorised) of selected statutes and articles

URL: http://home.highway.or.jp/JAPANLAW/index.htm

Internet Chinese Legal Research Center (from Washington University School of Law, Library). An effective gateway to relevant legal resources for Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Guides to researching Chinese law are also useful.

URL: http://ls.wustl.edu/Chinalaw/

Lawasia linking legal professions in Asia/Pacific

URL: http://www.lawasia.asn.au/lawasia/

Pacific Law Materials The School of Law from the University of the South Pacific has made available a collection of recent judgments from South Pacific countries.

URL: http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/Paclawmat/Paclawmat_MAIN.html

E-com Legal Guide (Electronic Commerce Legal Guide). A practical first level legal guide to electronic commerce in the APEC member economies, contributed by Baker & McKenzie and other leading law firms in the region

URL: http://www.bakerinfo.com/apec/

Eliminating Legal and Policy Barriers to Interoperable Government Systems. Interoperability is defined as essentially a problem in sharing information, and is of relevance to those interested in the area of Electronic Commerce, Law, and Information Policy Strategies. The study and report was prepared for the U.S. Intergovernmental Enterprise Panel (IEP).

URL: http://iep.fedworld.gov/library/elapbigs/cover.html

World Trade Organisation

URL: http://www.wto.org/index.htm

Australian Institute of CriminologySelected publications and statistics available in full text

URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/index.html

Criminal Victimization 1997: Changes 1996-97 with Trends 1993-97 (US Department of Justice)

URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv97.htm

New Directions from the Field: Victims Rights and Services for the 21st Century : valuable for both the practitioner and the researcher. [US Department of Justice (USDOJ) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)]

URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/new/directions/

Review of the Criminal and Civil Justice System a series of consultative documents from the Law Reform Commission of WA

URL: http://www.wa.gov.au/lrc/

URL: http://www.wa.gov.au/lrc/c&cjs.htm

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics_ -- 25th Anniversary Edition [.pdf] The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States presented in over 600 tables from more than 100 sources.

URL: http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/

Trends and Issues from the Australian Institute of Criminology- selected issues available in pdf format.

URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/index.html

World Justice Information Network or JUSTINFO.NET, is a system for sharing public information on crime. There are a range of full text documents and statistics at the site and linked from the site.

Registration is required but does not involve a cost at this stage.

URL: http://www.justinfo.net/

Directory of legal resources (University of Ottawa Faculty of Law). Catagorised by Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law, Mixed Systems and Islamic Law

URL: http://www.uottawa.ca/world-legal-systems/eng-monde.htm

ELSweb from the the European Law School (ELS) of Maastricht University. An excellent collection of European legal links arranged by country.

URL: http://www.unimaas.nl/~elsweb/

European Union Internet Resources

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/eu.html

Guide To European Legal Databases (New York University School of Law Library.) Constructed by Mirela Roznovschi her annotations and recommendations for research tools and resources are invaluable.

URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/europe.htm

Legal Resources Arranged Alphabetically - a directory of links from the New England School of Law Library

URL: http://www.nesl.edu/topical.htm

Portal to UK Legal Resources, maintained by Delia Venables

URL: http://www.venables.co.uk/legal/

World Law Guide

URL: http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) A comprehensive collection of treaties, this site also provides searchable access to World Resources 1996-97: A guide to the global environment.

URL: http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/ URL: http://data.wri.org:1996/

National Library of Medicine (USA) Online Databases and Databanks an amazing collection of medical related databases including:
• BIOETHICSLINE® (BIOETHICS onLINE) Ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research
• MEDLINE®
• POPLINE Family planning, population law and policy, and primary health care, including maternal/child health in developing countries
• TRI (Toxic chemical Release Inventory) series: Annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment, amounts transferred to waste sites, and source reduction and recycling data.
• and many more
  URL: http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/

Boston University's Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy (ISCIP) studies the political and security developments of 'conflict-prone societies in crisis, particularly Russia and other post-Soviet republics.' The site includes access to a database of research and the journal Perspective.

URL: http://www.bu.edu/iscip/perspective.html

URL: http://www.bu.edu/iscip/

The Cambodian Genocide Program aims to collect all extant information on the human rights abuses that occurred under the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979 in Cambodia; it also seeks to make this information available to any tribunal prosecuting Cambodian war criminals and to foster a critical and analytical understanding of genocide to prevent such violence from occurring elsewhere.

URL: http://www.yale.edu/cgp

Combating Racism and Intolerance from the Europe Commission against racism and intolerance.

This provides relevant international treaties and legal frameworks, a forum for discussion as well as publications and educational materials.

URL: http://www.ecri.coe.fr/

Crimes Against Humanity During the Gulf War: A Hyperlinked Pathfinder Research Tool

URL: http://diana.law.yale.edu/diana/db/war10.html#journals

The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations exists to promote the scientific study of migration (including asylum seekers), racism and ethnicity, to support relevant research training, to disseminate information and promote communication between researchers, particularly those with a European focus.

A comprehensive resource - including full text of conference papers, newsletter and contents page and abstracts of their journal, plus a range of relevant links.

URL: http://www.ercomer.org/index.html

Harvard Institute for International Development [.pdf] an interdisciplinary center at Harvard University whose mission is to assist the economic growth of developing nations.

URL: http://www.hiid.harvard.edu/

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project documents by and about Martin Luther King, Jr.

URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

United Nations Human Rights Website -- Treaty Bodies Database

This database was developed to meet the growing interest in the committees established to monitor the implementation of the principal international human rights treaties (also referred as "treaty monitoring bodies" or "treaty bodies"). Reports from participating member states and the concluding observations by the committees form the core of the database, which also contains a number of other related documents and data. An excellent resource.

URL: http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf

UNICEF The State of the World's Children 1999

URL: http://www.unicef.org/sowc99/

War Criminal Watch created by the Coalition for International Justice to track and publicise the accused criminal acts of indicted suspects for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

URL: http://www.wcw.org/

Native American & Aboriginal Law A well structured site providing research links on the World Wide Web from the New England School of Law Library.

URL: http://www.nesl.edu/research/native.htm

Copyright Law Review Committee (Australia)

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

IBM Intellectual Property Network Access to 27 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions and over 1.4 million European Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Office patents and applications.

URL: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/

IP Australia An overview of concepts and issues.

URL: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/intell/ipsintro.htm

US Patent Full Text Database a free full-text database of all US patents issued from January 1, 1976 to the most recent. Also on this site are the AIDS Patents Database and the US Patent Bibliographic Database. Several search options are available, but images and diagrams are not included from the Patent database.

URL: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/ World Trade Organisation

URL: http://www.wto.org/index.htm

International Law Commission 'established by the General Assembly in 1947 to promote the progressive development of international law and its codification'. An great resource for international law students.

URL: http://www.un.org/law/ilc/index.htm

World Trade Organisation

URL: http://www.wto.org/index.htm

The University Law Review Project - A reminder of this resource. Links to full text journals are expanding rapidly with an effective full text search facility for on line law journals. This is a free service provided by the Coalition of Online Law Journals and FindLaw [http://www.FindLaw.com/) with support of Stanford University and the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

URL: http://www.lawreview.org/

Akron Law Review a student based law journal - some full text articles on line.

URL: http://www.uakron.edu/lawrev/

American University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 1 (1995) +, 6 issues per year, full text articles on line.

URL: http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/journals/lawrev/aulrhome.htm

(1996) Arkansas Law Review - Online Vol 49, No.1 +

URL: http://lawreview.uark.edu/Online_Edition/default.html

Australian and New Zealand Computers and Law Journal with selected full text articles.

URL: http://www.vscl.org.au/JOURNAL.HTM

Duke Law Journal(1997)Vol 46, No. 5 +

URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dlj/

Emory Law Journal (1996) Vol. 45 No. 3 URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/ELJ/eljhome.htm

The Federal Courts Law Review provided by the Federal Magistrate Judges Association (USA)

URL: http://www.fedjudge.org/fclr/98index.htm

Florida State University Law Review (1995) Vol. 23, No. 1 + URL: http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/index.html

Georgia Law Review (1996) Vol 31 +

URL: http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/~galawrev/

Indiana Law Journal (1996) Vol 31 +

URL: http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/ilj.html

Law and Order Magazine- law enforcement issues online magazine (USA).

URL: http://lawandordermag.com/

Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX ) a free journal 'providing current, comprehensive resources for legal professionals and law librarians on research, marketing and information technology solutions.'

URL: http://www.llrx.com/

Mercer Law Review (1994) Vol 46+

URL: http://review.law.mercer.edu/

Perspective from the Boston University's Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy (ISCIP).

URL: http://www.bu.edu/iscip/perspective.html

URL: http://www.bu.edu/iscip/

Touro Law Review

URL: http://www.tourolaw.edu/Publications/Lawreview/

Trends and Issues from the Australian Institute of Criminology- selected issues available in pdf format.

URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/index.html

Washburn Law Journal [pdf]

URL: http://washburnlaw.edu/wlj/

Washington University Law Quarterly

URL: http://ls.wustl.edu/WULQ/

Web Journal of Current Legal Issues published bi-monthly from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in association with Blackstone Press. Contributors include academics, practitioners and members of the judiciary commenting on current legal issues.

URL: http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/

Law Reform

Copyright Law Review Committee

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

Queensland Law Reform Commission Reports No. 52+, Working Papers 50+

URL: http://www.qlrc.qld.gov.au/

Review of the Criminal and Civil Justice System a series of consultative documents from the Law Reform Commission of WA

URL: http://www.wa.gov.au/lrc/

URL: http://www.wa.gov.au/lrc/c&cjs.htm

Law Link NSW : the law and you. (NSW Attorney Generals Department). A very good overview of the relationship between individuals and legal institutions in New South Wales. Useful for other Australian jurisdictions as a guide to the legal process.

URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/

Law for You: plain English legal information. Focus is for NSW and Victoria but the principles and points covered will give an idea of the issues involved.

URL: http://www.law4u.com.au/index.asp

Roman Law An exploration of Roman Law - material in Latin, French, German and English. (Some of the English sections have not been translated yet.)

http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Rechtsgeschichte/Ius.Romanum/

Law Link NSW : the law and you. (NSW Attorney Generals Department). A very good overview of the relationship between individuals and legal institutions in New South Wales. Useful for other Australian jurisdictions as a guide to the legal process.

URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/

Law for You: Plain English legal information. Focus is for NSW and Victoria but the principles and points covered will give an idea of the issues involved.

URL: http://www.law4u.com.au/index.asp

The Lawyer's Marketing Survival Guide 'a FREE e-mail newsletter for lawyers who want to build a more successful and rewarding practice by dramatically improving their marketing skills and techniques.'

URL: http://www.topresults.com/survival/index.htm

OANDA: Classic 164 Currency Converter An effective currency converter with a backfile going back several years.

URL: http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic

National Library of Medicine (USA) Online Databases and Databanks an amazing collection of medical related databases including:
• BIOETHICSLINE® (BIOETHICS onLINE) Ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research
• MEDLINE®
• POPLINE Family planning, population law and policy, and primary health care, including maternal/child health in developing countries
• TRI (Toxic chemical Release Inventory) series: Annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment, amounts transferred to waste sites, and source reduction and recycling data.
• and many more
  URL: http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/

Tobacco Settlement Proposal (USA)

The full text of the recent historic tobacco settlement proposal negotiated by a team selected by the state Attorneys General.

URL: http://www.naag.org/tob2.htm

Law and Order Magazine- law enforcement issues online magazine (USA).

URL: http://lawandordermag.com/

Hague Conference on Private International Law : an intergovernmental organization, the purpose of which is 'to work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law'.

The site includes relevant conventions and their status.

URL: http://www.hcch.net/

International Law Dictionary

URL: http://www.wsu.edu/~legal/dic/default.htm

Canon Law Homepage - An unofficial site with well organised links related to Anglican Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Law site.

URL: http://canonlaw.anglican.org/

CIMEL - Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Links to primary materials and articles.

URL: http://www.soas.ac.uk./Centres/IslamicLaw/Materials.html

A Guide to Tax, in the Netherlands from the Ministry of Finance (in English).

URL: http://www.minfin.nl/Uk/taxation/taxneth/taxneth.htm

Victorian Society for Computers and the Law Inc. Local news, reports, and links to the Australian and New Zealand Computers and Law Journal with selected full text articles.

URL: http://www.vscl.org.au/

URL: http://www.vscl.org.au/JOURNAL.HTM

Eliminating Legal and Policy Barriers to Interoperable Government Systems. Interoperability is defined as essentially a problem in sharing information, and is of relevance to those in the area of Electronic Commerce, Law, and Information Policy Strategies. The study and report was prepared for the U.S. Intergovernmental Enterprise Panel (IEP).

URL: http://iep.fedworld.gov/library/elapbigs/cover.html

Tobacco Settlement Proposal (USA)

The full text of the recent historic tobacco settlement proposal negotiated by a team selected by the state Attorneys General.

URL: http://www.naag.org/tob2.htm