Antitrust Policy
URL: http://www.antitrust.org/

This site is funded by the Owen Graduate School of Management (Vanderbilt). Its stated design purpose is "to solve three problems: the alienation of antitrust academics from practitioners; the alienation of law, economics, and public policy from each another; and the difficulty that everyone has in keeping up with recent developments." The site is divided into nine sections: three deal with antitrust topics of mergers, vertical restraints and price fixing. Each of these sections is further divided into the aspects of Economics, Cases, Law & Policy, In the News and Research Topics. Other parts of the site include Other Information, under which are links to related sites; About the Site, whence information of funding and maintenance; a Merger Simulation program (useful for pedagogy); a Threaded Discussion; and Industry Links, providing links to sites categorized by industry (includes government sites). A frequently updated and well organized site.

 

Canadian Competition Policy Page
URL: http://csgb.ubc.ca/ccpp/

The Canadian Competition Policy page promotes itself as "A site devoted to the dissemination of information on competition law and economics in Canada and around the world." The site has sections devoted to People and Organizations, Conferences and Seminars, Documents, News, and Links to Related Sites, but the most notable feature is the Merger Simulation Program, developed by Prof. Werner Antweiler. The simulation program predicts the effects of proposed mergers in concentrated industries by manipulating data variables supplied by the user. Projections on pre- and post-merger market share and profitability are presented in an easy-to-read tabular format. A sample simulation is available as a demonstration of the program's functionality. The site is easy to navigate in both frame and non-frame versions; however, the simulation program appears to be available only in the frames version.

 

The Court Service
URL: http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/cs_home.htm

This is the site for the Court Service, an executive agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department. The department provides court administration for England and Wales. The site opens to a diagram of the various courts of England surrounding a main site for Headquarters and Circuits. Several have links where one can find recent judgments, practice directions and notices (some decisions). The section "Leaflets" provides, in PDF format, very good information on what to do and expect in court (if anyone has British pro se clients). Links include Smith Bernal International and the Law Society of England and Wales. A separate page, accessible through a link from the text of the home page, provides a great deal of information on the speeches, consultation papers and other products of the department. You will need an Adobe reader to enjoy full benefit of the pages. Frequently updated.

 

European Union
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/eugde.html

The UC Berkeley library provides a basic bibliography (with call numbers) of resources for finding information about the European Union (EU), including official works. Where appropriate, the site links to parts of the official EU site and other useful sites of the Internet. A good site with simple navigation for orienting oneself for EU legal research. It was last updated April 1998.

 

House of Commons Library Research Papers [.pdf]
URL: http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rpintro.htm

The Research Papers of the House of Commons Library are now online in PDF format. Well-written and carefully researched, the papers are designed to give Members and their staffs an objective analysis of particular bills or issues. They are from 25-50 pages in length, footnoted, and provide excellent information on European Union, NATO, Scottish Devolution, other international topics, and a range of domestic issues. Coverage begins with the first paper of 1998. The search button at the bottom of the page allows searching of the titles of the reports, along with the contents of the rest of the UK parliamentary pages. An Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for no charge at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html, is required to download the papers. Electronic notification of publication of the library papers, together with other government publications, is available through The British Official Publications Current Awareness Service (BOPCAS), a joint project of the Association for Information Management and the University of Southampton Library (http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bopcas/index.html).

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