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Greenshields, Anne --- "NetWatch March 2003" [2003] MurdochUeJlLaw 1; (2003) 10(1) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law

NetWatch: March 2003

Author: Anne Greenshields
Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Issue: Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2003)

Australian sites and developments

Federal Privacy Commissioner of Australia Cases (AustLII)
Selected cases of the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Australia from 2002.
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/PrivCmrA/

IPRIA (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia) "a national centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property". (University of Melbourne). Publications, such as working papers are available for download [pdf].
URL: http://www.ipria.org/intdev/wipo.html

Journal of Law and Financial Management "a forum for the publication of research and analysis focused on the nexus of the general disciplinary areas of law (primarily business, corporate and commercial law) and financial management. June 2002+
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/JLFM/

Research Finder is an internet search tool, made available by the Department of Education, Science and Training: searches approximately 2.4 million research related documents held on Australian web sites. A powerful search engine with results displaying search terms in context.
URL: http://rf.panopticsearch.com/

Australian Government Publications

Commonwealth Government

Joint Statutory Committee on Corporations and Securities. Reports (with submissions and transcripts).
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/corporations_ctte/reports/index.htm

Royal Commissions.

Senate Committee Reports
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/superannuation_ctte/reports/

Economics Legislation Committee.Index to Reports (with submissions where available)
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/economics_ctte/reports/index.htm

Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee. Index

Parliamentary Library Publications

Parliamentary Library Papers: Current Issues Briefs
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/CIB/

Western Australia

Intellectual Property News, Western Australia. Publications, Government Intellectual Property Policy (2002 revision) and Best Practice Guidelines
URL: http://www.indtech.wa.gov.au/govt/ip/
URL: http://www.indtech.wa.gov.au/govt/ip/publications.htm
URL: http://www.indtech.wa.gov.au/govt/ip/policy.htm

Primary Legal Materials on the Internet

Federal Privacy Commissioner of Australia Cases (AustLII)
Selected cases of the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Australia from 2002.
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/PrivCmrA/

French & German Judicial Decisions contains a "database of translated German and French judicial decisions in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law from the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the Bundesgerichtshof, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de Cassation". (Institute of Global Law, University College London and the Institute of Transnational Law, University of Texas.)
URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/global_law/cases/

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions (WorldLII)
Contains decisions of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions since 1997.
URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/ITLOS/

Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 Full text of old trials, with 'sentencing' details.
URL: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

Reference Guide to Geneva Conventions from the Society of Professional Journalists. Full text of conventions, documents, history and links
URL: http://www.globalissuesgroup.com/geneva/index.html

Children and the law

Ayelet Shachar, Children of a Lesser State: Sustaining Global Inequality through Citizenship Laws [.pdf] No.2/03
URL: http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/03/030201.html

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour [.pdf] from the International Labour Organization. A variety of reports from 2002.
URL: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/

Constitutional Law

1st Amendment Online "publicly accessible information, ideas, and images concerning the First Amendment to the United States Constitution". (University of Minnesota Law School).
URL: http://1stam.umn.edu/

Corporate & Securities Law

Australia. Joint Statutory Committee on Corporations and Securities. Reports (with submissions and transcripts).
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/corporations_ctte/reports/index.htm

Australia. Economics Legislation Committee.Index to Reports (with submissions where available)
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/economics_ctte/reports/index.htm

Journal of Law and Financial Management a forum for the publication of research and analysis focused on the nexus of the general disciplinary areas of law (primarily business, corporate and commercial law) and financial management. June 2002+
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/JLFM/

Crime and Criminal Justice Issues

Centre for Restorative Justice (Simon Fraser University School of Criminology, funded by the Correctional Service of Canada). The site includes a database with links in the search result to full text documents.
URL: http://www.sfu.ca/cfrj/

Crime and Candidacy "Should someone with a criminal record be able to stand for political office?"
Australian Parliamentary Library Current Issues Brief, no. 22, 2002-03. [pdf]
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/cib/2002-03/03cib22.pdf

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (US Dept. of Justice) a significant collection of rpublications are available for free downloading.
URL: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/

Directories and Guides

Reference Guide to Geneva Conventions from the Society of Professional Journalists. Full text of conventions, documents, history and links
URL: http://www.globalissuesgroup.com/geneva/index.html

Human Rights

Creating Opportunities for Future Generations: Arab Human Development Report 2002 - links to pdf versions of this report in different languages.
URL: http://www.undp.org/rbas/ahdr/

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour [.pdf] from the International Labour Organization. A variety of reports from 2002.
URL: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/

National Labor Committee (NLC): In Support of Human and Worker Rights around the globe. Resources arranged by company and country.
URL: http://www.nlcnet.org/

Ulrich Petersmann, Robert Howse and Philip Alston , Trade and Human Rights: An Exchange No.12/02
URL: http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/02/021201.html

Intellectual Property

Creative Commons a non-legal site for people who want to "dedicate their creative works to the public domain -- or retain their copyright while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions" Site includes a set of copyright licenses free for public use
URL: http://creativecommons.org/

Intellectual Property News, Western Australia. Publications, Government Intellectual Property Policy (2002 revision) and Best Practice Guidelines
URL: http://www.indtech.wa.gov.au/govt/ip/
URL: http://www.indtech.wa.gov.au/govt/ip/publications.htm
URL: http://www.indtech.wa.gov.au/govt/ip/policy.htm

IPRIA (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia) "a national centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property". (University of Melbourne). Publications, such as working papers are available for download [pdf].
URL: http://www.ipria.org/intdev/wipo.html

International Law

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government). The list of publications includes links to magazine and news articles. Journals published by the school include International Security and abstracts for their book series BCSIA Studies in International Security
URL: http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/
URL: http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/publications.cfm?program=ISP&project=IS&pb_id=14&gma=1
URL: http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/publications.cfm?program=ISP&project=IS&pb_id=14&gma=1

Center for Justice and International Law
URL: http://www.cejil.org/

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions (WorldLII)
Contains decisions of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions since 1997.
URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/ITLOS/

Reference Guide to Geneva Conventions from the Society of Professional Journalists. Full text of conventions, documents, history and links
URL: http://www.globalissuesgroup.com/geneva/index.html

Ulrich Petersmann, Robert Howse and Philip Alston , Trade and Human Rights: An Exchange No.12/02
URL: http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/02/021201.html

World Customs Organization includes declarations, fact sheets, alerts, and reports. Information can be found by browsing customs topics or searching the database.
URL: http://www.wcoomd.org/ie/en/en.html

Journals, Essays & Newspaper

ABYZ News Links - links to more than 20,000 newspapers and other news sources from around the world. Menus arranged by region and country.
URL: http://www.abyznewslinks.com/

International Security (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government).
URL: http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/publications.cfm?program=ISP&project=IS&pb_id=14&gma=1

The Jean Monnet Papers: "Under the Jean Monnet Project, the European Commission supports university initiatives aimed at creating teaching activities in European integration." The site includes working papers, available in either pdf or rtf, book reviews, events, and links. (New York University, USA).
URL: http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org
URL: http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/index.html
Working papers are of wide interest to legal researchers. Titles include the following and can be downloaded as either pdf or rtf:

Labour Law

Australia. Senate, Employment, Education and Training Legislation Committee re Workplace Relations Amendment (Termination of Employment) Bill 2002.
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/EET_CTTE/reports/index.htm

Australia. Final Report of the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry (Cole report).
URL: http://www.royalcombci.gov.au/hearings/reports.asp

European Trade Union Institute "a link between academic research and the European trade union movement". Includes links and publications, most of which are available in English.
URL: http://www.etuc.org/etui/

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour [.pdf] from the International Labour Organization. A variety of reports from 2002.
URL: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/

National Labor Committee (NLC): In Support of Human and Worker Rights around the globe. Resources arranged by company and country.
URL: http://www.nlcnet.org/

Legal History

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 Full text of old trials, with 'sentencing' details.
URL: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

Legal Practice

Francis Burt Chambers (Western Australia)
URL: http://www.francisburt.com.au

Maritime Law

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions (WorldLII)
Contains decisions of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Decisions since 1997.
URL: http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/ITLOS/

Migration

Forced Migration online: "a world of information on human displacement". The site aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users.
URL: http://www.forcedmigration.org/

Institute for the Study of International Migration (Georgetown University, USA)
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isim/

Privacy

Federal Privacy Commissioner of Australia Cases (AustLII)
Selected cases of the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Australia from 2002.
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/PrivCmrA/

Reference materials and Search Engines

Reference Guide to Geneva Conventions from the Society of Professional Journalists. Full text of conventions, documents, history and links
URL: http://www.globalissuesgroup.com/geneva/index.html

Research Finder is an internet search tool, made available by the Department of Education, Science and Training: searches approximately 2.4 million research related documents held on Australian web sites. A powerful search engine with results displaying search terms in context.
URL: http://rf.panopticsearch.com/


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