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InSITE
ISSN 1521-9046
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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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Bulgarian Institute for Legal Development
URL: http://www.bild.acad.bg
- The Bulgarian Institute for Legal Development is a non-profit,
non-governmental organization dedicated to the introduction of
new technologies to the legal profession of Bulgaria and to
reform of Bulgarian media and telecommunications laws. Its
members support information exchange, freedom of information,.
data protection, access to legal information, legal education, and
the revision of Bulgarian law in conformity with the European
Union, as building blocks of human rights. The website contains
links to numerous cyberlaw and information technology sites;
of special interest are the texts of telecommunications laws
of many countries in Europe, the Western Hemisphere, Asia, and
of the European Union (some in English translation). Bulgarian
materials (some also in English) include the constitution,
legislation, draft legislation, and the government agenda.
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Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment
URL: http://www.cpt.coe.fr
- Most of the Council of Europe's 40 members have ratified the
European Convention on Human Rights and the European
Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The members of the
Committee, who include independent experts on law,
medicine, and criminal justice, visit prisons, jails, youth
detention centers, and psychiatric hospitals to
ascertain compliance with the Conventions. They do not have
enforcement powers, but after surveying the facilities and
interviewing detainees, prisoners, police, and prison staff
they make recommendations to the government in question as
to improvements in physical facilities, access to doctors and
lawyers, and reports of ill- treatment. The website contains the texts
of reports of visits to many
states across Europe from the last decade. These remarkably
detailed and pointed documents can be viewed chronologically
or by country, and may be accompanied by press releases and
governmental responses.
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Confoederatio Helvetica
URL: http://www.admin.ch/index.html
- The website of the Swiss federal government, available in
English, German, French, Italian, and Romansh (if you have
never encountered this fourth official language of Switzerland,
here's your chance). Covers the executive branch--the federal
council, decisions of the Swiss supreme court, federal
departments; parliament and legislative procedure; a table
of laws and ordinances entered into the Recueil Officiel
from 1997 on, arranged by date of implementation; other
sections on government and constitutional reform; political
rights; federal law and the courts; business, social
security, and investment. "What's New" contains many items
of interest from federal agencies. Some sections are only
posted in German or French; English-speaking users are
referred to the websites of the Swiss embassies in
Washington or London, which have more material in English.
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Recursos Internet en Derecho
URL: http://www.csic.es/cbic/derecho.htm
- The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas has put
together a solid website on online legal resources for Spain.
Included are links to the Spanish government and congress,
to the European Parliament's Spanish office, and to a host
of autonomous communities across Spain. There are also
links to the Diario de Jurisprudencia el Derecho, which
contains opinions from the supreme court, the constitutional
court, and selected decisions from provincial courts, as
well as full-text versions of the civil code and other
legislation and the Boletín Oficial on both the national
level and for Spain's constituent provinces and territories
--a feature not often found in foreign law websites.
Material is in Spanish, with some sections in Catalan or
Galician.
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
URL: http://www.truth.org.za
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The website of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
Commission presents official reports, statements, and press
releases (users can sign up to receive new material by e-mail),
a schedule of hearings, transcripts of the hearings,
including testimony regarding human rights violations under
apartheid, amnesty decisions and statistics, documents and
articles by the Commissioners, and news reports from the
South African Press Association. There are links to South
African political parties, non-governmental organizations,
several English and Afrikaans newspapers, and various South
African and human rights organizations. The website is
searchable via AltaVista.
©1998 Cornell Law Library
The contents of this publication and any recommendations therein are the opinions of the authors and do not reflect the views of Cornell University.
The contents of this publication and any recommendations therein are the opinions of the authors and do not reflect the views of Cornell University.