Bazelon Center of Mental Health Law
URL: http://www.bazelon.org/

The Judge David L. Bazelton Center for Mental Health Law (named for a federal appeals court judge who issued several decisions pioneering mental health law) engages in "legal advocacy for the civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disability," including mental illness, retardation, and mental/emotional disabilities, with respect to housing, health care, family support, and issues of institutionalization. The often-updated website provides news of federal laws, regulations, court decisions and proposed legislation, publications for the general reader, alerts on Congressional activities on health care and SSI disability programs, and links to other advocacy groups, consumer/survivor organizations, Congress, and the media. Materials have a strong focus on children and elders with mental disabilities, and health care issues, in particular managed care and Medicaid. Some documents are in Adobe Acrobat format, and some are in Spanish. One interesting feature is a form for creating a personal psychiatric advance directive. This website is easily usable by the layperson.

 

Canadian Internet Law Resource Page
URL: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/cilrp.html

A good collection of resources on Canadian cyberlaw, containing case law, legislation, government reports and conference papers, with links to federal and some provincial agencies pertaining to telecommunications and the Internet. A sidebar provides a topical index, with such subjects as anonymity, banking, domain names, free speech, intellectual property, privacy, torts, and unsolicited e-mail. Under each subject there may be links to published articles, agencies, symposiums, statutes and bills, model codes, policy papers, and other websites. The CILRP sponsors an online discussion list and an update service. The website is maintained by Prof. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa, and is available in a French version.

 

CEPMLP On-Line Journal
URL: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/petroleumlaw/html/journal.htm

The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee began publishing the CEPMLP On-Line Journal in 1997 as a way to "provide early access ... to published works in ... Natural Resources, Energy and International Business Transactions." The articles available in full text are pre-publication versions of articles which are intended for eventual publication in academic journals. Book reviews, abstracts of articles from other publications, a news section, and a reader forum comprise the rest of the journal. A search engine provides access to the journal's contents via keyword; in addition, the articles are indexed by author in the "Article Archives" section. This is a very well-organized and easy-to-navigate site.

 

Documents de travail du Senat (France) - Série législation comparée
URL: http://www.senat.fr/elc.html

The "Working Documents" of the Senate of France are comparative studies of legislation, generally focussing on Europe but in some cases covering non-European legislation (e.g. Oregon's assisted-suicide law). The website contains the full text of the studies produced since April 1995, the most recent being dated January 1999. Documents from 1990 to 1995 can be obtained directly from the Senate; a subject list is provided. Subjects range from euthanasia to parental authority, municipal police, asylum, labor law, and the rights of illegitimate children. Each document provides a useful overview of the current state of the law in many European countries, with some nations meriting extensive coverage; for example, one can learn that in Europe only Belgium spcifically addresses the legal status of children born of adulterous relationships, vis `a vis other illegitmate children. The entire website is in French, including excerpts from non-French legislation.

 

Lockerbie Trial Briefing
URL: http://www.law.gla.ac.uk/lockerbie/

This site, sponsored by the University of Glasgow School of Law, presents the relevant UN documents, news articles and chronology of the Lockerbie incident and the attempt to bring the accused to trial. There are links to British and American official statements. Essays on Scottish criminal procedure and evidentiary law provide information on how the trial will be conducted. It is a useful site for anyone interested in researching the Lockerbie incident. Not all the internal links of the left column worked when this annotator was reviewing the site.

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InSITE contributors: C. Bynum, P. Court, J. Luke, J. Pajerek, D. Smith.

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