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ASIL Insight: Copenhagen Climate Change Accord

This issue of ASIL Insight focuses on the Copenhagen Climate Change Accord. ASIL Insights is a free online newsletter produced by the American Society of International Law. ASIL Insights publishes pieces highlighting developments in international law, aiming to inform decision-makers, the legal profession and the public. The author of this issue is Daniel Bodansky who is the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.

CourtWEB

CourtWEB is the online federal court opinions information system hosted by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvannia. Selected opinions of the United States federal courts are provided by judges who have chosen to make them available. The site does not provide a complete collection of court opinions. CourtWEB can be searched by keywords in the full text of the opinion limiting by court or by searching the case number, judge, keywords and date fields.

Due Process of Law Foundation

The Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) is a private, non-profit organisation which aims to promote "the reform and modernization of Latin America's national justice systems to ensure that the rule of law and respect for human rights are the hallmarks of justice systems throughout the Americas." DPLF's activities include research and training focusing on international justice, judicial accountability and transparency and equal access to justice. Details of activities and publications relating to each area can be viewed on the site.

Disclosing Justice: a study on access to judicial information in Latin America

Report by the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), looking at the legal frameworks for access to judicial information (including freedom of information laws) in the following Latin American countries: Argentina; Chile; Colombia; the Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Honduras; Mexico; Panama; Peru and Uruguay. For each country there is information on the availability of administrative information (financial, statistical and personnel) and case law. The report also outlines the legal instruments that provide access to information and looks at how the information is provided.

National Sea Grant Law Center

Website of the National Sea Grant Law Center (SGLC) a United States research body founded in 2002 and based at the University of Mississippi. The Center "conducts research on marine laws and policies, coordinates ocean and coastal law researchers, and disseminates information to coastal and ocean policy-makers". 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.

DNA identification evidence in criminal prosecutions

Article looking at studies and reviews that have been published focusing on concerns over the use of forensic DNA evidence in criminal prosecutions. The article was written by Ken Strutin, who is Director of Legal Information Services at the New York State Defenders Association, and was published in March 2010 on LLRX.com. Summaries and links to the full texts are given of scholarly articles highlighting the types of mistakes that can undermine confidence in DNA evidence such as laboratory error, cross-contamination, interpretive bias or fraud.

Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School

Website of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School in the US. The Center works with legal professionals and governmental and non-governmental organisations to improve access to justice for victims of gender-based violence. Its work includes providing legal research assistance to judges, undertaking project work, providing online legal resources and hosting conferences and events.

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 law 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.

Legal portraits online

Legal Portraits Online is a project of the Harvard Law School Library to digitise its collection of "over 4000 portrait images of lawyers, jurists, political figures, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century". In particular the collection includes images of eighteenth and nineteenth century British and American lawyers such as William Blackstone, Jeremy Bentham, John Marshall, and Joseph Story along with graduates of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School.

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