Guide to online primary resources for Western European history, compiled by Richard Hacken, European Studies bibliographer at Brigham Young University, Utah. The resources are mainly transcriptions, facsimiles and translations listed chronologically, which illuminate the political, economic, social or cultural implications of important historical events.
Online article dealing with the preservation of digital legal materials written by Sarah Rhodes who is the digital collections librarian at the Georgetown Law Library in Washington, D.C. and a project coordinator for The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive. The article was published on LLRX.com in February 2010. The author looks at the issues surrounding the selection of materials to be preserved, the software requirements, the standards and protocols for digital preservation software and services and financial considerations.
Website of the World Justice Project (WJP) a United States based initiative, funded by foundations, professional firms, the American Bar Association and individual donors, concerned with strengthening the rule of law worldwide. The site gives organisational information about the WJP and its work and activities which cover three main strands: mainstreaming; scholarship and the Rule of Law Index.
The How Do I? wiki is written by members of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) PR and Promotions Committee. The service is aimed at law librarians but is made freely available on the BIALL website. The wiki provides answers to questions asked by law librarians on the Lis-Law jiscmail list and can be accessed by broad subject headings, a detailed alphabetical listing or by using the search engine. Subject headings include legislation, judgments and courts, conventions and treaties, European Union and books and journals.
This website provides free access to the Hamlyn Lectures, a collection of public lectures by judges, legal academics, practitioners and other eminent speakers. The lectures are made available by the Hamlyn Trust, a charity supporting public legal education in the United Kingdom, and hosted on the website of the University of Exeter, School of Law. This collection has selected lectures delivered from 1949 to 2004 including contributions from Lord Denning, Lord Devlin, Lord Scarman, Henry Cecil, Lord Hailsham and Lord Woolf.
The Journal of Legal Analysis (JLA) is published by Oxford University Press on behlaf of Harvard Law School. This peer reviewed journal aims to publish the "best legal scholarship from all disciplinary perspectives and in all styles, whether verbal, formal, or empirical". The site has information about the JLA including details of the Editorial Board. Articles are made freely available in full text and can be downloaded in HTML and PDF. Recent topics covered include judicial salaries, equality in criminal law and class action settlements.
An innovative directory of academics and researchers which is being developed by a team headed by Dr Richard Price of All Souls College, Oxford. It intends to provide free access to a database of information about academic researchers and departments in colleges worldwide. Individual records include research interests and information on projects. It is possible to search by department or research interests. The site was launched in 2008 and relies heavily on self registration, therefore users should be aware that information may not be comprehensive.
Web pages of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), a research committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA) concerned with socio-legal research. The site has information on the history of the RCSL, copies of its statutes and details of past presidents. Contact details are given for Board members and there is information on forthcoming conferences and meetings. Copies of the RCSL newsletter can be downloaded from the site in full text (PDF) and there are links to related associations, research bodies and journals.
The Open Access Law Program is an initiative of Science Commons a publishing project promoting "free access to scholarly literature without undue copyright and licensing restrictions". The site provides access to a range of principles and agreements that authors and publishers can adopt. These include the Open Access Law Journal Principles, the Open Access Law Author Pledge and the Open Access Model Publishing Agreement.
Online article about the development of the Legal Information Institutes written by Graham Greenleaf who is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and Co-Director of AustLII. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The article covers the early years of the LIIs from 1992 to 2000 with the establishment of the first Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
