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Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses : a practical guide

Guide to drafting alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clauses published on the website of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), a non profit organisation dedicated to developing and promoting ADR methods and approaches. This guide aims to steer the user through the drafting process step-by-step. It provides a checklist for the drafter, a discussion of the key features of arbitration, clauses approved by the AAA, and other provisions that might be considered. The guide concludes with a brief list of suggestions for further reading. It is available in PDF format.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Study

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was enacted into law in the United States on October 28 1998. Section 104 of the DMCA required the US Copyright Office to carry out this study, which is now published on their website. The study seeks to evaluate the relationship between technological change and copyright law, focusing on copyright related issues such as first sale doctrine, temporary incidental copies and archival copying of computer programmes. Feedback on these issues from the library community, publishers and private citizens forms part of the study. 

Fedflix: free film from US government

FedFlix, available from the Internet Archive, was a collaboration between the US National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. It provides free access to films from branches of the American government, including public information films and historic film clips and footage from the National Archives, the Department of War, the United States Forest Service, the Federal Civil Defense Administration and other departments. The site, which was archived in 2008, includes information on sources, copyright and technical details. 

National Sea Grant Law Center

Marine law and policy research centre founded in 2002 and based at the University of Mississippi. Sea Grant is a partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and universities that work with coastal communities conducting research, education, outreach and technology transfer.

Law of War Deskbook

The Law of War Deskbook is published by the International and Operational Law Department of The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in the United States. This edition was published in January 2011 and is made freely available in full text (PDF) on the Library of Congress website. The Deskbook is intended to be used as a teaching tool covering the international and operational law subjects taught to military judge advocates. There are chapters providing an introduction to public international law and looking at the history and framework of the law of war.

Military legal resources

This Library of Congress web page provides a selection of legal materials held by the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School Library. It includes primary source materials and publications in the field of military law. There is a series of Army Lawyer pamphlets available back to 1971, and complete issues of the Military Law Review journal.

Edmund M. Morgan Papers on the drafting of the Uniform Code of Military Justice

This Harvard Law School Library collection contains digitised versions of 6,664 papers donated by Harvard Law School Professor Edmund M. Morgan, who was chair of the United States Committee on a Uniform Code of Military Justice (CUCMJ) in 1948. The Code replaced the separate codes that had previously existed for the Army and Navy.

Court of Restitution Appeals reports

This site provides access to full text law reports of the United States Court of Restitution Appeals, digitised and made freely available online by Harvard Law School Library. During World War Two the Nazis compelled many victims in occupied countries to sell properties and businesses. After the war the Western Allies agreed to restitute property taken and the United States, France and Britain each passed different legislation governing the restitution of property taken by Nazis.

National Institute of Corrections Library

This site provides access to the library of the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) which is an agency of the US Department of Justice. The library contains books, journals, newsletters and video and audio tapes along with unpublished materials produced by correctional agencies and all NIC publications. These materials include research reports and analyses, program descriptions and evaluations and training materials. The catalogue can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject heading.

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