Greenshields, Anne --- "NetWatch March 1999" [1999] MurdochUeJlLaw 1; (1999) 6(1) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law

NetWatch: March 1999

Author:	Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Issue:	Volume 6, Number 1 (March 1999)

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

Asian Sites Bankruptcy Children and the Law Constitutional Law Directories and Guides Dispute Resolution Environmental Law Ethics Family Law

Gender Issues Human Rights Intellectual Property International Law Journals, Essays & Newspapers Legal Practice Medico-Legal Links Reference materials and Search Engines Technology and the Law Women and the Law

Australian sites and developments

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Documents relevant to indigenous issues including Native Title, stolen children and heritage.
URL: http://www.atsic.gov.au/

Law4U - Plain English Legal information - simple guides for clients. As yet the only guides available are for NSW and Victoria, the rest "are coming soon".
URL: http://www.law4u.com.au

Lawstuff, National Children's and Youth Law Centre. Issues for young people, addressed on a state by state basis.
URL: http://www.lawstuff.org.au/

OzSearch Internet Guide searching Australian sites
URL: http://www.ozsearch.com.au/

Property and family law: options for change: a discussion paper.Attorney Generals Dept.
ISBN 064220960X.
URL: http://law.gov.au/mpl/

Redfern Centre - tenancy, credit and debt factsheets. (NSW focus)
URL: http://www.rlc.org.au/

Primary Legal Materials on the Internet

Legifrance, an official French government website, brings together an impressive selection of legal materials. The site includes laws and decrees from the Official Journal from January 1998 onward. (In French only at the moment - though there may be translations available in the future.)
URL: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/citoyen/index.cgi

Asian Sites

Resources on Japanese Law (Temple University Law Program in Japan) selected primary materials in Japanese and English. Includes articles and links.
URl: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/law/lawresources.html

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Developments Journal (USA)
URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/BDJ/bdjhome.htm

Children and the law

Lawstuff, National Children's and Youth Law Centre. Issues for young people, addressed on a state by state basis.
URL: http://www.lawstuff.org.au

Constitutional Law

House of Lords Bill - Reforming Britain's House of Lords, with links to the Explanatory Memorandum.
URL: http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmbills/034/1999034.htm

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project. This site offers access to the full texts of selected legal documents from the Supreme Court, Land Titles, Constitutions etc.
URL: http://thorpe.ou.edu/

Directories and Guides

Center for Information Law and Policy A directory of resources by subject area
URL: http://www.law.vill.edu/

Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases from the NYU School of Law Library. A useful guide to internet resources, in particular the links to Foreign Databases- By Jurisdiction
URL: http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/index.html
URL: http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/country.html

Kimes International Law Directory Directory of practitioners searchable by practitioner, area of work and location. Sweet & Maxwell's print legal directory covers approximately 650 firms in almost 250 countries.
URL: http://www.smlawpub.co.uk/kimes/

Pacific Law Sites from the University of the South Pacific, links to articles and sites in the Pacific (excluding, Australia, NZ and the USA).
URL: http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/lawlib/site/pf.html

Dispute Resolution

INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity A global centre for the study and resolution of conflict a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University.
URL: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/

Environmental Law

The CEPMLP On-Line Journal Topics covered include - Natural Resources, Energy and International Business Transactions. The site includes selected articles and abstracts.
URL: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/petroleumlaw/html/journal.htm

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/delpf/

European Environmental Law Homepage. Full text cases, legislation and other materials related to European Environmental Law. Apart from these primary sources, several dossiers and articles offer a more in depth view on specific issues.
URL: http://www.eel.nl/

US EPA History Office The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implements Federal laws protecting the nation and its people from pollution: this site access documents from the insititutional memory of the agency.
URL: http://www.epa.gov/history/

Ethics

The Ethics Connection from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, articles links and discussion forums.
URL: http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/homepage.shtml

Family Law

Property and family law: options for change: a discussion paper.Attorney Generals Dept.
ISBN 064220960X.
URL: http://law.gov.au/mpl/

Gender Issues

BRIDGE: briefings on development & gender
BRIDGE (briefings on development and gender): an information service provided by the Institute of development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. BRIDGE will provide tailor-made briefings on request. Briefings that "present state of the art research findings, review current policy debates, synthesize best practice, and evaluate strategies for translating gender policies into practice." BRIDGE publications (full-text) are available on this site, and Bridge briefings "are a valuable resource for development agencies, in their efforts to implement the commitments of the Beijing Conference to promoting gender equality and 'mainstreaming'."
URL: http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/

Human Rights

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Documents relevant to indigenous issues including Native Title, stolen children and heritage.
URL: http://www.atsic.gov.au/

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Access is provided to research documents, their catalogue, and publications including the Native Title Newsletter
URL: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au
URL: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru_abt.htm#pubs

Humanitarian Law Center "a non-governmental and non-partisan organization, systematically and impartially studies human rights. monitoring and investigating Human Rights Abuses in the former Yugoslavia". Extensive and substantial documentation is available at the site.
URL: http://www.hlc.org.yu/

Human Rights Watch World Report Review of human rights around the world.
URL: http://www.hrw.org/hrw/worldreport99/index.html

icg internet Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is a nonprofit organization that provides alternative sources of information as well as online access and comprehensive Internet services for progressive individuals and organizations. Links to PeaceNet, EconNet, LaborNet, WomensNet and ConflictNet.
URL: http://www.igc.org/igc/

INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity A global centre for the study and resolution of conflict.
URL: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/

Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings Extensive collection of mateial and links relevant to genocide and mass killings over this century.
URL: http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm

Not Part of My Sentence": Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody (USA)
URL: http://www.amnesty-usa.org/rightsforall/women/index.html

UN Wire The daily news summary covering the United Nations, global affairs and key international issues. Includes alerting service and access to archives. Registration is required, but is free.
URL: http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/

Intellectual Property

Consumer Project on Technology Articles, discussion and links related to consumer issues in the current information technology environment. Topics such as privacy and intellectual property are included.
URL: http://www.cptech.org/

Digital Technology Law Journal
URL: http://wwwlaw.murdoch.edu.au/dtlj/index.html

Patent Cafe site a site which addresses business and commercialization aspects of IP law. Includes relevant links and the Patent Cafe Magazine.
URL: http://www.patentcafe.com/
URL: http://www.patentcafe.com/cafe_magazine/index.html

International Law

INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity A global centre for the study and resolution of conflict a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University.
URL: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/

International Boundary News Database a searchable international boundaries news archives database covering boundary issues from 1991 to today - less six months.
URL: http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/database/data.html

JURIST: The Law Professors' Network has posted a "Legal Guide to the Kosovo Conflict"
URL: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
URL: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/kosovo.htm

Journals, Essays & Newspaper

Alaska Law Review
URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/alr/

Bankruptcy Developments Journal (USA)
URL: http://www.law.emory.edu/BDJ/bdjhome.htm

The CEPMLP On-Line Journal Topics covered include - Natural Resources, Energy and International Business Transactions. The site includes selected articles and abstracts.
URL: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/petroleumlaw/html/journal.htm

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal
URL: http://www.smu.edu/~csr/smuscr.htm

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/delpf/

Government Information in Canada a journal discussing issues related to accessing and finding government information in Canada.
URL: http://www.usask.ca/library/gic/

Health Law News A Quarterly Publication of the University of Houston Health Law and Policy Institute.
URL: http://www.law.uh.edu/LawCenter/Programs/Health/HealthLawNews/homepage.html

Information Research: an electronic journal published quarterly by the University of Sheffield. Of interest to researchers in any discipline.
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html

Patent Cafe Magazine. Intellectual Property magazine.
URL: http://www.patentcafe.com/cafe_magazine/index.html

Legal Publishers

Law Books - an associate of amazon.com. A collection of over 1,000 legal publications for sale.
URL: http://www.parthenis.gr/lawbooks/index.shtml
URL: http://www.amazon.com

Legal Practice

Law4U - Plain English Legal information - simple guides for clients. As yet the only guides available are for NSW and Victoria, the rest "are coming soon".
URL: http://www.law4u.com.au

Lawstuff, National Children's and Youth Law Centre. Issues for young people, addressed on a state by state basis.
URL: http://www.lawstuff.org.au/

Redfern Centre - tenancy, credit and debt factsheets. (NSW focus)
URL: http://www.rlc.org.au/

Medico-Legal Links

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Legal advocacy for the civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disability (US based but of interest to anyone working in this field.)
URL: http://www.bazelon.org/

Health Law News A Quarterly Publication of the University of Houston Health Law and Policy Institute.
URL: http://www.law.uh.edu/LawCenter/Programs/Health/HealthLawNews/homepage.html

Health Law Perspectives Brief analyses of recent developments in Health Law in areas such as informed consent, cosmetic surgery on minors, ethics and insurance issues
URL: http://www.law.uh.edu/LawCenter/Programs/Health/HLPIHELP/homepage.html

Reference materials and Search Engines

The French Translator's Jurisconsult web resources for the legal translator. Access to terminology and quick background information on specific angles of French law designed for the busy translator
URL: http://www.new-babel.demon.co.uk/

Technology and the Law

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal
URL: http://www.smu.edu/~csr/smuscr.htm

Consumer Project on Technology Articles, discussion and links related to consumer issues in the current information technology environment.
URL: http://www.cptech.org/

Digital Technology Law Journal
URL: http://wwwlaw.murdoch.edu.au/dtlj/index.html

Women and the Law

BRIDGE: briefings on development & gender
BRIDGE (briefings on development and gender): an information service provided by the Institute of development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. BRIDGE will provide tailor-made briefings on request. Briefings that "present state of the art research findings, review current policy debates, synthesize best practice, and evaluate strategies for translating gender policies into practice." BRIDGE publications (full-text) are available on this site, and Bridge briefings "are a valuable resource for development agencies, in their efforts to implement the commitments of the Beijing Conference to promoting gender equality and 'mainstreaming'."
URL: http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/

"Not Part of My Sentence": Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody (USA)
URL: http://www.amnesty-usa.org/rightsforall/women/index.html