Cornell Law Library - InSITE: Archived Issues

InSITE
A Current Awareness Service of
Cornell Law Library

ISSN 1521-9046

Vol. 2, no. 15
April 28th, 1997

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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Council of Europe
URL: http://www.coe.fr: Information from and about the Council of Europe is available at this site. The choice, "Presentation", provides information about the Council, pictures of buildings associated with it, addresses, telephone, and fax numbers for centres maintained by the Council, and for the information and documentation centres in individual countries. Clicking on "Activities" accesses sites maintained by the Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly, and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. Under "Texts" are the statutes of the Council, and conventions and protocols dealining with Human Rights, Bioethics, Social Matters, Public Health, Protection of Animals, Environment, Public and International Law, Civil and Commercial Law, Penal Law, Education, Culture, Sport, Radio, and Television. The fourth choice, "News", has press releases from the Council of Europe, and the text of EUROPA40PLUS, the Council's electronic newspaper.
Documents on Demand
URL: http://www.oceanalaw.com/docs.htm: Oceana, a major legal publisher, provides treaties on demand through this web service. Using the online TIAS Treaty Indices and the Alphabetical Index of Treaties by Subject, you can identify and order over 8,000 treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory, in effect or promulgated since 1989. Additional international legal materials are planned to be added. Payment options and pricing structure are explained at this page, which can be a useful option when access to a large legal library is not easily obtained.
Law-France page d'accueil
URL: http://www.res.otaru-uc.ac.jp/~law/law-france/index.html: Law-France is a moderated discussion list for the exchange of ideas on the practice of law in France. Open to any interested parties, mailings are posted only once per day, either in French or in English. The listowner prides himself on this private initiative, as opposed to most other university or officially-sanctioned legal discussion lists. In addition to the discussion, this site also serves as the archive for a variety of related lists and also points to numerous law-related web sites.
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Peru
URL: http://www.rree.gob.pe: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru maintains this developing site, dedicated to providing information of interest to the international community on Peruvian economic and social development, as well as Peruvian foreign policy. Current offerings are materials, in Spanish and English, relating to the border disagreements between Peru and Ecuador. Included are the basic documents on the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro of 1942, and a very extensive analysis of the Peruvian-Ecuadorean border incident in the Cordillera del Condor in 1981. The Declaration of Montevideo is presented, along with related official communiques and press releases from the Peruvian government.
The University of Melbourne Computerized Legal Research
URL: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/research.html: The Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne presents a site with an impressive collection of home pages. Index headings for WWW Sites for Lawyers include Australian Legal Resources, Government (Commonwealth), Government (States & Territories), Commonwealth Hansards, Hansards (States & Territories), Australian Political Parties, and New Zealand Legal Resources. There are also links to legal resources from the UK, US, and Canada. Foreign & International legal resources are accessible, along with information dealing with Immigration Law, Refugees, and Human Rights. Information is presented on citing electronic sources, Artificial Intelligence & the Law, and Copyright Issues in Cyberspace. This should prove to be a very, very good place to start a number of research projects.

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