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InSITE
A Current Awareness Service of
Cornell Law Library

ISSN 1521-9046

Vol. 2, no. 1
September 9, 1996

InSITE highlights selected law-related World Wide Web sites in two ways: as an annotated publication issued electronically and in print; and as a keyword-searchable database.

The law librarians at Cornell evaluate potentially useful Web sites, select the most valuable ones, and provide commentary and subject access to them. These information can be accessed as following:

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International Relations and Security Network
URL: http://www.isn.ethz.ch: The Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research maintains this excellent site in conjunction with a number of other organizations, with support from the Swiss Government. It contains a wealth of well-organized information on security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations. The user may access the information through a subject listing or by taking a regional or country approach. There is also a search engine for the site. "Current" and "What's New" sections draw the user's attention to hot topics and new sites. Each site that ISN links to is described briefly and assigned one or more icons that indicate whether the site is new, if it is a government site, whether it contains statistical data, and so on.
Internet Service Providers
URL: http://www.boardwatch.com/isp/archit.htm: Actually a choice from Boardwatch, this is a succinct explanation of what the Internet is, and how it works. It very nicely explains the genesis of this phenomenom, and traces its development, stopping along the way to clarify concepts like backbones and IP addresses.
Lawtown
URL: http://www.lawtown.com: Maintained by Shepard's, this site has links to a mass of sites, mostly legal in focus. Offerings are collected in five Lawtown locations: the Library, the Courthouse, the School, the Coffeeshop, and Shops. The Library has links to bar association, government, and general legal information sites. The Courthouse has links to federal and state sites for accessing court opinions; there is also a list of URLs for locating state statutes. The School has links to Web sites maintatined by law schools around the world. The Coffeeshop diverts from the legal theme, connecting to museums, games, and the world of entertainment/sports. Shops has links to home pages of other legal publishers.
Law Journal Extra! 9th Circuit - Recent Decisions
URL: http://www.ljextra.com/public/daily/XD9ca.html: Links to full-text decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, in reverse chronological order. Case name and date of decision listed, with case names arranged in alphabetical order by date.
Law Reviews
URL: http://www.hg.org/employment.html: Part of the Hieros Gamos-The Comprehensive Legal Site, the HG Legal Employment Classified allows lawyers, librarians and paralegals to search for and list employment opportunities. Legal Employment Classified is divided into the following parts: Part One: Search For Positions Available, Part Two: Free Classified Advertising for Legal Positions, Part Three: List your Personalized Employment Interest. There are also links for employment resources and classified Internet advertisements.
Sex Abuse by Professionals
URL: http://www.islandnet.com/~wwlia/us-prosx.htm: Pamela K. Sutherland, a Boston attorney, wrote this article focussing on "the clinical and legal reasons underlying the prohibitions on therapist-patient sexual contact and some of the legal remedies available." The article, which is also available in print form from the author, provides background information on the issues surrounding professional-client sexual contact. Also discussed are the civil and criminal legal remedies available to victims of sexual misconduct by a professional.
University Law Review Project
URL: http://www.lawreview.org/: Run by FindLaw and the Coalition of Online Journals, the University Law Review Project provides a free abstract E-mail service and full text searching for law journals on the Internet. Also includes FindLaw Academic Journal Page with an alphabetical list of journals, a list of journals by law school, journals with full-text of articles online, law review abstracts E-mail archive, and editorial addresses of 101 law reviews.
USMTR/NAFTA Information Center: Databases
URL: http://nafta.tamiu.edu/search.htm: A project of the Texas A&M International University's Office for the Study of U.S.-Mexico Trade Relations and the North American Free Trade Agreement Information Center, NAFTA Information Center's databases are comprised of trade and commerce information regarding NAFTA, Central and South America. These are full-text databases of news stories from the following publications: Business Costa Rica, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, El Financiero International Weekly, The Houston Chronicle, The Magazine: Guatemala, The Miami Herald International Edition, Shipping Digest, International Business Investor's Business Daily, San Antonio Express-News Textile World, The Tico Times, U.S. & Western Hemisphere, and Transport Topics. These databases of news stories are searchable by keyword and year.

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