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NetWatch: June 2000

Author: Anne Greenshields
Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Issue: Volume 7, Number 2 (June 2000)



Australian and New Zealand sites and developments

Australian Digital Alliance a non-profit coalition of public and private sector interests interested in ensuring "intellectual property laws must strike a balance between providing appropriate incentives for creativity against reasonable and equitable access to knowledge." The  Australian Libraries Copyright Committee is also on this site.
URL: http://www.digital.org.au
URL: http://www.digital.org.au/alcc/

Australia: Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee:  Access to ongoing enquires and reports.  The most recent inquiry is into the Provisions of the Administrative Review Tribunal Bill 2000*
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_legal
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ADVERT/lc_artbill.htm

Australia. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. The most recent is the  inquiry into the enforcement of copyright
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/copyrightenforcement/inqinf.htm

Australian & New Zealand Internet Sites for Authorised Government  Documents and Courts.Australian  legal subject directory  (University of Melbourne) part of the Weblaw project
URL: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/lawlib/links/government.html
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html

Australian and Securities Investments Commission (ASIC) Information, media releases, and other publications
URL: http://www.asic.gov.au

e-Valuate, a student journal from the University of Western Australia,  focusing on legal aspects of human rights and social issues. Commenced in 1999.
URL: http://www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/elawjournal/

Federal Magistrates Service a new independant federal court under the Australian Constitution
URL: http://www.fms.gov.au/

Law Portal. Access to non-subject specific legal information in Australia. The site is well organised and easy to move through, an alternative approach to AustLII's main directories and Other Australian Law listing..
URL: http://www.lawportal.com.au/full_screen.asp
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/Australia/

National Police Ethnic Advisory Bureau  - reports and recommendations
URL: http://www.npeab.gov.au/

Parliament of Australia: Constitutional Law links to primary materials and other constitutional documents. (A weblaw site)
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/constitutionallaw.htm
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html

PictureAustralia is an image database service which  provides a single point of access to over 450,000 digitised images from the pictorial collections of many of Australia's leading cultural heritage institutions.
URL:  http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

Tenant's Advice Service Inc WA. Information and guide sheets for those owning or occupying rental properties.
URL: http://www.taswa.org
 

Primary Legal Materials on the Internet

East Timor Regulations promulgated by the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/tp/legis/consol_reg/

Federal Magistrates Service a new independant federal court under the Australian Constitution - significant decisions of the court will be made available on the site.
URL: http://www.fms.gov.au/

Jurisweb - Derecho Espanol en Internet - major portal for Spanish legal resources.
URL: http://www.jurisweb.com/

LexisONE. Lexis Publishing now provides a free online legal resource, aimed at individual attorneys and small firms.
Free access to (US) Case Law, Free Forms (US), and Legal Internet Guide will prove invaluable for the non-US legal practitioner interested in US materials. Case law coverage includes US State Supreme and Federal Circuit cases from January 1, 1996, and all Supreme Court cases from 1790.
Registration is required in order to access case law material, this is free at present.
URL: http://www.lexisone.com/

Parliament of Australia: Constitutional Law links to primary materials and other constitutional documents.
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/constitutionallaw.htm

Supreme Court (USA) Opinions, proceedures, information.
URL: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Adminstrative law

Australia: Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee:  Access to ongoing enquires and reports.  The most recent inquiry is into the Provisions of the Administrative Review Tribunal Bill 2000*
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_legal
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/ADVERT/lc_artbill.htm

Bankruptcy

ABI World from the American Bankruptcy Institute. Legal and educational materials relating to bankruptcy/insolvency issues in the USA.
URL: http://www.abiworld.org/

Children and the law

Children and the Law Australian  legal subject directory  (Uni of NSW) part of the Weblaw project
URL: http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~law/children.html
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html

International Child Abduction: Official Australian Website for the the Australin Authority for the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
URL: http://law.gov.au/childabduction/

 

Constitutional Law

Constitution Finder (T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond). An alphabetical country listing accessing constitutions and related documents from countries world wide. (Most of the material is in English)
URL: http://www.richmond.edu/~jpjones/confinder/

Parliament of Australia: Constitutional Law links to primary materials and other constitutional documents. (A weblaw site)
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/law/constitutionallaw.htm
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html
 

Corporate Law

Annual Report Gallery (USA) - a directory of US publically listed companies websites (over 2,000 listed here). Some annual reports summaries are included but the major value in this site is the linking to the home pages of companies, where their annual report should be available. Warning the advertising is almost overwhelming, but dispite this a usefull directory.
URL: http://www.reportgallery.com

Australian and Securities Investments Commission (ASIC) Information, media releases, and other publications
URL: http://www.asic.gov.au

Corporate Law & Securities Law Australian  legal subject directory  (Uni of Melbourne) part of the Weblaw project
URL: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/lawlib/links/corporations.html
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html
 

Criminal Law

A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 [.pdf] (USA)
http://207.153.244.129/
For those interested in the death penalty response to capital crime a disturbing report from Columbia University Justice Project.  The "Liebman Study" examines every every capital conviction and appeal between 1973 and 1995 (nearly 5,500 judicial decisions) - a must for researchers in the area.

Criminology. Australian  legal subject directory  (University of Melbourne) part of the Weblaw project
URL: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~library/crimin.html
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html

International Trafficking In Women To The United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime. Produced by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. [pdf]
URL: http://www.odci.gov/csi/monograph/women/trafficking.pdf

National Police Ethnic Advisory Bureau (Australia) - reports and recommendations
URL: http://www.npeab.gov.au/

NIJ's International Center - a "specialized collection of documents, articles, speeches and news items about transnational and comparative crime and justice for U.S. practitioners and researchers. The library is linked to a local database and can also search the world wide web to provide the most complete research information available on these important topics"
URL: http://nijinternational.unojust.org/library/

Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database from the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Canada). The database indexes print and internet resources which can be accessed via a simple search engine. The Help screens are very useful including thesaurus terms as well as search assistance.
URL: http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/search.htm
URL: http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/default.htm
 

Cyberspace

Censor Dot Gov: The Internet and Press Freedom 2000_ [.pdf]
URL: http://www.freedomhouse.org/pfs2000/

Dominiuris: "Web site devoted to juridical problems concerning Domain Names", mainly in Spanish but with some English documents.
URL: http://www.dominiuris.com/uk/Default.htm

Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Devoted to focusing public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protecting privacy" for US citizens.
URL: http://www.epic.org/
Freedom House "a non-partisan advocacy organization for democracy, political and civil liberties worldwide". Study of press freedoms, government restrictions on Internet access etc. across 186 countries.
URL: http://www.freedomhouse.org/pfs2000/
URL: http://www.freedomhouse.org/

Global Internet Liberty Campaign aims to prohibit prior censorship or restriction of online communication, while preserving civil liberties and human rights on the Internet
URL: http://www.gilc.org/

Directories and Guides

European Governments Online Links to sites for the Head of State, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Well laid out site.
URL: http://europa.eu.int/abc/governments/index_en.html
Law Portal. Access to non-subject specific legal information in Australia. The site is well organised and easy to move through, an alternative approach to AustLII's main directories and Other Australian Law listing..
URL: http://www.lawportal.com.au/full_screen.asp
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/Australia/

Pac-Info's Search Systems is a collection/directory of US and Canadian Public Databases. Links include those to legal collections and people, as well as more general material such as Who's Who.
URL: http://www.pac-info.com (US)
URL: http://www.pac-info.com/locations/canada.shtml (Canada)

US Lawyers directory
URL: http://www.lawoffice.com/

weblaw subject directories to Australian Law.
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html

European Material

European Governments Online Links to sites for the Head of State, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Well laid out site.
URL: http://europa.eu.int/abc/governments/index_en.html
EIROnline European Industrial Relations Observatory "contains up-to-date information and analysis on the most important events and issues in industrial relations in the 15 EU Member States and Norway".
URL:  http://www.eiro.eurofound.ie/

 Family Law

International Child Abduction: Official Australian Website for the the Australin Authority for the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
URL: http://law.gov.au/childabduction/

Human Rights

e-Valuate, a student journal from the University of Western Australia,  focusing on legal aspects of human rights and social issues. Commenced in 1999.
URL: http://www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/elawjournal/
International Trafficking In Women To The United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime. Produced by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. [pdf]
URL: http://www.odci.gov/csi/monograph/women/trafficking.pdf

National Police Ethnic Advisory Bureau (Australia) - reports and recommendations
URL: http://www.npeab.gov.au/
 

Indigenous Affairs

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties Volume II by Charles J. Kappler (originally published in 1903-04). Volume I and III in process of being digatized.  >From Oklahoma State University Library.
URL: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

Industrial Law

EIROnline European Industrial Relations Observatory "contains up-to-date information and analysis on the most important events and issues in industrial relations in the 15 EU Member States and Norway".
URL:  http://www.eiro.eurofound.ie/

Industrial Law Australian  legal subject directory  (University of Sydney) part of the Weblaw project
URL: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~library/indlaw.htm
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html

"Your Voice at Work is the first Global Report to  be released under the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It examines trends in relation to respect shown for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights around the globe."
URL: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/decl/vaw/index.htm
URL: http://www.ilo.org/

Intellectual Property

Australian Digital Alliance a non-profit coalition of public and private sector interests interested in ensuring "intellectual property laws must strike a balance between providing appropriate incentives for creativity against reasonable and equitable access to knowledge." The  Australian Libraries Copyright Committee is also on this site.
URL: http://www.digital.org.au
URL: http://www.digital.org.au/alcc/

Australia. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Inquiry into the enforcement of copyright
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/copyrightenforcement/inqinf.htm

Dominiuris: "Web site devoted to juridical problems concerning Domain Names", mainly in Spanish but with some English documents.
URL: http://www.dominiuris.com/uk/Default.htm

International Law

Federation of American Scientists: Countering the Threat of International Terrorism, Report of the National Commission on Terrorism, June 2000.
URL: http://www.fas.org/index.html
URL: http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html
International Trafficking In Women To The United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime. Produced by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. [pdf]
URL: http://www.odci.gov/csi/monograph/women/trafficking.pdf

NIJ's International Center - a "specialized collection of documents, articles, speeches and news items about transnational and comparative crime and justice for U.S. practitioners and researchers. The library is linked to a local database and can also search the world wide web to provide the most complete research information available on these important topics"
URL: http://nijinternational.unojust.org/library/

Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database from the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Canada). The database indexes print and internet resources which can be accessed via a simple search engine. The Help screens are very useful including thesaurus terms as well as search assistance.
URL: http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/search.htm
URL: http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/default.htm

Journals, Essays & Newspaper

e-Valuate, a student journal from the University of Western Australia,  focusing on legal aspects of human rights and social issues. Commenced in 1999.
URL: http://www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/elawjournal/
FindArticles.com is a partnership between LookSmart and the Gale Group to publish a selection of full text journals for libraries, businesses, and information technologists. The search engine is unsophisticated but effective.
URL: http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml

Law and Contemporary Problems Full text journal from Duke University (USA). Each issue is devoted to a single topic, the topics are wide ranging from medical malpractice to corporate governance.
URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/

WRIT: New opinions from court room to cafe - Very topical and readable articles focusing on US law.
URL: http://writ.findlaw.com/
 

Media and Telecommunications Law

Media & Telecommunications Law Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Inquiry into scientific, ethical and regulatory aspects of human cloning
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/humancloning/inqinf.htm

MEDLINEplus from the National Library of Medicine (USA) hosts medical reference sources including dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
URL: http://medlineplus.gov/

Medterms.com provides access via alphabetical arrangement as well as through a search option. Compiled by the authors of Webster's New World Medical Dictionary.
URL: http://www.medterms.com/

National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy - US advocacy centre for mentally ill. Newsletters, links, some cases, as well as information with relevance for anyone with a mental illness.
URL: http://www.connix.com/~narpa/
 

Military Law

Military Justice Matters aims to  "promote justice, to assist in maintaining good order and discipline in the armed forces, to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the military establishment, and thereby to strengthen the national security of the United States. This page is a "just-the-facts" sampling of military justice within the United States Air Force."
URL:  http://jaglink.jag.af.mil/

Newspapers

Directories of Newspapers - find the paper
The Editor & Publisher's Database Directory of the World's Media Online is a directory of newspapers with links to, and information about the publication. The information includes description of online newspapers, frequency, type, publishing information, content, archives etc. From the front page there are various approaches to finding relevant newspapers with menu driven options and criteria selection.
URL: http://emedia1.mediainfo.com/emedia/

OnlineNewspapers.comfrom Web Wombat. This directory has a streamlined presentation and access to newspapers without providing publication details and information.
URL: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Directories of News - find the story
Yahoo's Daily Newsincludes material from Reuters, AP, CNN etc. Archive searching is available for up to 30 days of archives however, it appears that it does not include most of the news feeds in the archives. The page includes links to other news sources.
URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/

1stHeadlines it is a bit slow to load, but the quick links are very current, and easy to use. Daily headlines and links to stories. Archives are not available... topic arrangement plus search capacity.
URL: http://www.1stHeadlines.com

Read the story - limited searchablity
ABC Australian news. Regional and subject gateways to ABC news.
URL: http://www.abc.net.au

Reuters World News - updated throughout the day. Free search engines are provided through alternative sites, but results using links for searching were poor.
URL: http://www.reuters.com/

Reference materials and Search Engines

Dictionaries
MEDLINEplus from the National Library of Medicine (USA) hosts medical reference sources including dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
URL: http://medlineplus.gov/

Medterms.com provides access via alphabetical arrangement as well as through a search option. Compiled by the authors of Webster's New World Medical Dictionary.
URL: http://www.medterms.com/

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law ©1996 (USA) on Findlaw.
URL: http://dictionary.findlaw.com/
URL: http://www.findlaw.com

Your Dictionary.com - Speciality dictionaries, language dictionaries. This is a good multidisciplinary starting point for researching outside our 'comfort zone".
URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Reference Resources
Virtual Reference Collection from MIT. A really useful directory of Internet reference materials.
URL: http://libraries.mit.edu/services/virtualref.html

Search Engine
Google - this is proving to be a very effective search engine for Internet research, providing meaningful results where other engines failed.
URL: http://www.google.com

Telephone directories
International Calling Assistance.  A very neat site linking you with the international code for your international call.
URL: http://www.countrycallingcodes.com/
 

Tax Law

Tax Australian  legal subject directory  (University of Sydney) part of the Weblaw project
URL: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~library/tax.htm
URL: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap/pathways/weblawou.html

Women and the Law

International Trafficking In Women To The United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime. Produced by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. [pdf]
URL: http://www.odci.gov/csi/monograph/women/trafficking.pdf

Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development, and Peace for the 21st Century (Beijing +5) [.pdf, RealPlayer]
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/followup/beijing+5.htm
UNICEF & beijing +5 [.pdf]
http://www.unicef.org/programme/gpp/new/beijing5/index.html


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