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Human Rights Research Guide

A guide to human rights research by Hyla Bondareff, Research Services Librarian and Lecturer in Law at the Washington University School of Law Library. Includes links to international human rights resources, key human rights documents, organisations such as the United Nations and the Council of Europe, and online collections of human rights documents are linked to. There are also lists of other human rights resource guides and human rights groups.

International Society of Family Law

The International Society of Family Law (Association Internationale de Droit de la Famille / Internationale Gessellschaft fur Familienrecht) is an independent scholarly association for academics and practising lawyers. Its website has details of its publications, including indexes to the International Survey of Family Law; it also provides the ISFL newsletter. The site also provides details of past and forthcoming conferences. Parts of the site are restricted to members.

Information Society Project

Website of the Information Society Project (ISP), a research project managed by the Yale Law School. The ISP is concerned with the "implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society, guided by the values of democracy, human development, and social justice". Research programmes look at digital education, law and genomics and intellectual property reform and innovation. Papers prepared by research staff can be downloaded in full-text PDF.

Boston College International and Comparative Law Review

The Boston College International and Comparative Law Review is a biannual journal publishing commentary on international and EU law issues. It includes articles by both students and academics. Each spring issue of the journal features articles on a variety of international and comparative law topics; each winter issue is a survey of European Union developments. The website makes available several old issues of the journal (1999 to 2002), free of charge.

LawMoose

LawMoose is a free law site provided by Pritchard Law Webs, a commercial company providing law firms with web services. It covers legal information for the US states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as a World Legal Resource Center. The Minnesota and Wisconsin sections include links to state law, courts, government sites, forms, lawyers and to general legal reference resources; the World Legal Resource Center can be browsed by country or searched by keyword and provides links to other resource guides. LawMoose includes a subscription option providing access to additional legal resources.

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch is an independent, non-governmental organisation which seeks to protect human rights all over the world. Its website provides up to date information on its work as well as access to many of its publications.

Electronic Guide to Mexican Law

A web resource guide covering the law and legal system in Mexico. The guide has been written by Francisco Avalos, the Foreign and International Law Librarian at the University of Arizona College of Law Library and Elisa Donnadieu, a graduate student at the University of Arizona and fellow of the University of Arizona College of Law Library. The guide was published in 2005 (and updated in 2009) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law.

Berkeley Program in Law & Economics Working Papers

The Program in Law & Economics at University of California, Berkeley provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship in the fields of business law, and law and economics. This series of working papers are available online with abstracts back to 1995, and full text available for most papers from 1998 onwards. The series is hosted in the eScholarship repository, part of the California Digital Library.

Guide to Legal Research in Belarus

An article offering an outline of the legal system and notes on legal materials for the Republic of Belarus in Eastern Europe. The guide has been written by Nadia Shalygina, Director of the International Law Library in Minsk. The guide was published in 2005 and updated in 2019 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

Restorative Justice Exchange

Information and resources about restorative justice, provided by Prison Fellowship International. The site gives an introduction to the concept of restorative justice and the Restorative Justice Handbook, by Jonathan Derby (Special Advisor to Prison Fellowship International) can be downloaded free of charge. There is also a blog and an archive of restorative justice publications, videos and other material; most of the archived documents are in English, but some are in Spanish, French and Russian.
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