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Law lists & directories

Commerce and Law Internet Bookmarks
From the University of Melbourne
Australasian Legal Information Institute
Extremely comprehensive site. Includes full-text of the latest cases from the High Court, available on the day of their handing
down by the Court, as the most up-to-date site for this material available on the Internet.
Australian Law on the Internet (NLA)
Very nice, easy to use directory created by the National Library of Australia
Foundation Law: Home Page
Excellent directory for Australian law produced by the Law Foundation of New South Wales.
Australian Law Sites (Monash University Law Library)
Dan's Australian Law Index 3
Hieros Gamos -The Comprehensive Law and Government Site
HG (www.hg.org) is the largest and only comprehensive legal site with over 20,000 original pages and more than 70,000 links.
HG I contains information on over 6,000 legal organizations including every government in the world.
HG II 's 200+ practice areas, 300+ discussion groups and 50 doing business guides provide free access to substantive information. Now, hundreds of hours of online seminars have been incorporated as well.
HG III's self-listing user-modifiable databases for meetings, publications, employment, law firms, experts, court reporters, ADR professionals. Its other resources, News, the Law Library, the Students' Page, and Journals, are among the most extensive available on the Internet. The new Search feature accesses a database of 35,000 law related URL's. More than 9,000 automatic searches have been defined so that additional materials on the specific subject can be easily found.
University of Sydney Law internet guide
Business & Commercial Law sites (S.A. TAFE)
Nicely annotated list of some top Australian, and overseas law sites
UniServe Law
Particularly good for links to teaching resources.
Lawnet: Ozemail

Full-Text Case & Legislation (Primary Source) sites

SCALEplus
Australasian Legal Information Institute
Australian Constitution (full-text)
Parliament of Australia: Hansard
House of Representatives & Senate (recent only).
Full-text QLD Legislation from the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
Online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators.
AustralianTreaties Home Page
Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Includes link to United Nations Treaty Database.
Bills Net
OSIRIS (Industrial Relations)
OSIRIS provides access to awards, decisions, variations, agreements (certified and enterprise flexibility agreements) and decision summaries databases. These are updated with material provided from the Australian Industrial Registry(AIR).
Pink Ribbon Publishing (CaseBase)
Possible to search across very recent cases and journal articles (only)
Legal Publications from Gilbert & Tobin Law Firm
Full text articles concerning topical legal issues from staff at Gilbert & Tobin Law Firm.

Subject law indexes

Subject guide to Australian legal sites
From the Austlii site.
InterNet Bankruptcy Library
Law by Subject (National Library of Australia)
Internet Sites For Lawyers
Nice Directory of law sites researched and compiled by Ron Huttner ( Lecturer In Computerised Legal Research, Faculty Of Law, The University of Melbourne).
Australian Media Law and Policy Bibliography
The bibliography covers publications since 1 July 1996 dealing with law and policy relating to the Australian media, including film and television.
Monash Uni Law Lib - Subject specific sites
Topics Index (from Dan's Australian Law Index)
Aboriginal Studies WWW VL
Excellent site for general aboriginal studies.

Organisations, associations & publishers

Federal Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
Australian Law Reform Commission
Includes the full-text of all of the more recent ALRC reports.
Australian Law Schools (Uniserve Law)
Listing of all Australian law schools
Australian Government Publishing Service Lawsite
Homepage of the Commonwealth government publisher AGPS. Includes AGPS catalogue, and links to Scaleplus &Commonwealth Bills Lists.
Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia
Deals with topics such as Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander social justice, Disability discrimination , Human rights , Privacy , Race discrimination , Sex discrimination
Butterworths Legal Information Centre
LBC Information Services - Home
ISADR-Institute for the Study of Alternative Dispute Resolution
Law Society of New South Wales - ONLINE

Law journals & electronic newspapers

UK Law Journals
This new service from the Electronic Law Journals (ELJ) environment
provides information on publications, publishers and editors.
It is planned to develop the service further to deliver a range of
additional features including:
* full list of journal contents (articles and other material),
* abstracts,
* full text articles of print journals,
* nature and policy of the publishers and the journal,
* editorial board,
* guidance to contributors,
* subscription forms.
LBC Information Services - Current Issues from ALJ
Selection of recent articles from the Australlian Law Journal
Legal electronic journals (U.Syd)
Links to Legal Electronic Journals, Update bulletins, Newspapers and News Services collected by the University of Sydney Law Library.
Hieros Gamos Legal Journals On-Line
Law Journals (Washburn University School of Law)
JILT: Journal of information law and technology (UK)
Law Society Journal (N.S.W.)
Melbourne University Law Review
High Court of Australia Bulletin
Australian Newspaper Internet Sites
Links to all Australian newspapers including regional and rural newspapers that have an Internet site
Web Journal of Current Legal Issues (U.K.)
Electronic legal journal (UK based & searchable)

Government-related law sites

AustLII Legal Links - Australia:Politics
Good for finding the home pages of the various political bodies in Australia
Window on the Law (Attorney General's Dept.)
This new site of the Federal Attorney-General's Department provides access to the Attorney-General's Home
Page and News Releases, as well as providing information about Australia's Legal System
Index to Australian Parliamentary Information
Parliament of Queensland
Australian Local Government Association
United Kingdom Houses of Parliament
Foreign Governments
Alphabetical listing of government webpages around the world.

International law

Lovdata CELEX on the Web: European Union Law
Legal Research Meta-Index (U.S.)
Search engine for U.S. legal sites.
WashLaw WEB -- Washburn University School of Law
Outstanding U.S. Directory of legal sites.
RAVE Homepage (Public International Law & European Law)
The new database, called RAVE, contains actual publications and/or their sources (since 1995) in the field of European Law and International Public Law. The sources are English, German and French speaking reviews, treaties and other publications.
Legal Information Institute (Cornell Uni.)
Very extensive U.S. legal site with good primary source links.
Public international law (Uni of W.A.)
Legal Resources Pages (U.K.)
maintained by Delia Venables
UK Acts of Parliament
1996 onwards from HMSO
Smith Bernal International (UK Court of Appeal decisions)
Allows free acess to UK Court of Appeal decisions
FarisLaw US Case Law Search
Excellent source of international primary materials.
Foreign & International Law Web (U.S. site)
The foreign and international law web is a service of the Washburn University School of Law Library. Their goal is to provide links to primary foreign and international legal resources, research aids, and sites useful in conducting research in these areas of the law. It is possible to search by world regions, general topics or do a specific search.
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
International Organizations
BUBL LINK: Law
National information service for higher education community in UK - Law sites
U.S. Federal Law Index (FarisLaw)
US law front-end - you can search all available U.S. legal pages with full-text legal content as well as case information.
A lso includes comprehensive links to law sites for countries such as Canada, France, & Malaysia
The Legal List--(U.S.)
Useful guide and links to researching U.S. law.
UK, U.S. and Canadian law material on internet
Taken from Foundation Law page
Law Resources
National Bankruptcy Review Commission

Miscellaneous law

The Australian Firearms Buyback Introduction
Lawstuff - (for under-18's)
Legal rights for people under 18
Law Discussion Groups and Listservs (Hieros Gamos)
Butterworths Legal Research Guide
Guide to finding your way around law collections (focusing on resources published by Butterworths)
The Layman's Guide to Politics and Law

Legal referencing

Murdoch University Citation Guide for Law
Abbreviations of commonly used law reports
Abbreviations of commonly used law journals
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (1997-98 ed.) - U.S. based
By Peter W. Martin (Cornell Law School)
Harvard legal referencing
University of Sussex Library: General Referencing
Legal Case Abbreviations - Pink Ribbon

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Authored by : Elizabeth Firman- Email : firman@usq.edu.au
Date last modified :11 June 1998