Title: Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School: Legal Resources

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Avon Global Center for Women and Justice; Cornell Law School

URL: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/womenandjustice/legalresources/index.cfm

Date Checked: 1/7/2010      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 2/2/2010

Topics: Foreign Law; Human Rights Law; International Law; Women and the Law

Other keywords: Avon; women; girls; gender-based violence

Contents: Based at Cornell Law School, the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice provides an international forum for judiciary, governments, and civil society to work together to promote justice for women and girls who have been the target of gender-based violence. Four major initiatives serve to further the Center’s mission: undertaking clinical projects; providing legal research assistance for judges; developing online legal resources and a discussion forum; and organizing and hosting an annual conference and other substantive events. The Center’s new and rapidly expanding legal resources database provides free access to treaties and other international and regional documents, as well as case law from around the world relating to gender-based violence. Notably, the cases selected for the website focus on gender-based violence, are vetted for relevance and substance, and are supplemented with a concise summary of each decision’s significance. The database is well populated with English versions of treaties, statutes, cases, and many other international, regional and domestic documents in PDF format. A search feature is available for keyword, topical or regional queries, and well-constructed summaries accompany the materials gathered within each topic. Researchers who visit the site will find the online library to be readily accessible and growing rapidly with relevant, authoritative materials. The site also hosts a discussion forum in which registered users may participate in the exchange of information intended to improve access to justice for women and girls. Judges may additionally register for a closed judges-only email list and individual research/project assistance.

Author of Annotation: A. Emerson