InSITE
A Current Awareness Service of
Cornell Law Library

ISSN 1521-9046

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Vol. 3, no. 23
July 13, 1998
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:

EJIL - The European Journal of International Law
URL: http://www.ejil.org/
The European Journal of International Law has launched this website to complement their print serial, which began in 1990. Although not a full online version of the print publication, "Web-EJIL" includes several useful features for those with an interest in international law. Tables of contents, editorials, and abstracts of the principal journal articles are available, as well as full text book reviews and the full text of the journal's "Current Survey." The current surveys provide coverage of various international law topics, including the case law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a survey of principal decisions of the European Court of Justice Pertaining to international law. Other features of the site include a discussion forum, search engine, e-mail list which informs subscribers when a new issue if EJIL is published, and a translation feature which enables the user to translate each web page into a variety of languages.

Eur-Lex European Union Law
URL: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html
Located on the European Union's gateway server, Europa, (http://europa.eu.int/), Eur-Lex is the Union's impressive free law service offered in its eleven official languages. Eur-Lex provides the text of the treaties, together with important resolutions, declarations, and other instruments. A searchable database at the site provides access to European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance decisions since 6/17/97. The last twenty days of both the L and C series of the Official Journal are also available. In addition, the Consolidated Texts service, arranged chronologically and analytically (under 20 topics), outlines those legislative texts which have been amended, with selective documents in full-text. During the summer 1998, the site will mount the Directory of Community Legislation in force, including all current legislation in full-text. By the end of 1998, draft legislation presented by the Commission to Parliament and the Council, in addition to other preparatory legislative documents, will also be added. The Eur-Lex site does provide a search engine (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/search.html), and may require free registration (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/register.html). An Adobe Acrobat reader (available at no charge at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/) is required for viewing some of the documents.

Health Law
URL: http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/19health/index.html
The well-known Findlaw site has an excellent health law page. The purpose of the page is to conveniently collect health law-related links in an organized manner. At the top of the page, the user is given a choice of selecting links such as "Laws & Government Documents," "Journals, Newsletters & Articles," "Mailing Lists & Usenet Groups," or "Government Agencies." All information within those categories is specifically related to health law. There is also a page with links to law firms on the web that specialize in health law. The user may scroll down the page to find an alphabetical listing of many if not most things health law-related. Another great site for health law policy and regulatory materials, also linked to this Findlaw health law site, is Health Hippo. An off-beat name for an excellent collection of information.

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
URL: http://www.virtual-institute.de/eindex.cfm
Known for its Encyclopedia of Public International Law and its Public International Law bibliography, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law of Heidelberg, Germany has made available on its website the full text of its World Court Digest (http://www.virtual-institute.de/en/wcd/wcd_home.cfm). The Digest, previously published in two volumes by Springer-Verlag, is a continuation of the Institute's former publication Fontes Iuris Gentium: Digest of the Decisions of the International Court of Justice. Written in English, meticulously organized by subject and searchable, the Digest entries are excerpts from International Court of Justice judgments, advisory opinions and orders since 1986. The Digest also provides summaries of the decisions and lists of both regularly sitting judges and ad hoc judges during this period. Other valuable resources on this site are the Institute's catalog, collection of links, and description of the work of the Institute and its staff. In German and English.

Uradni List Republike Slovenije
URL: http://www.uradni-list.si/
This site is an official state site for Slovenia. It has in PDF format the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia (Uradni list Republike Slovenije) beginning January 1, 1997. The government puts up new issues the same day they are distributed in paper. This site is in Slovene except for a one page English summary, and requires paid subscriptions. Information for ordering annual volumes on CD-ROM is available as well as how to subscribe to the gazette on-line. Two installments of the gazette are freely available, serving as samples for would-be subscribers. For one who does not subscribe, the site has the capability of providing the names of laws that have been put into effect and when they were published. There is a search engine that provides search capability by keyword, type of law or issuing organization.

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