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Water Laws

Water Laws is an online journal published by Smith Partners a Minnesota based law firm specialising in local government and water resources law. Water Laws is made freely available online and provides access to case law, legislation and comment on US (Minnesota in particular) water resources law and policy. Digests of recent decisions on water law from the Minnesota state courts and federal courts are arranged by subject. There are links to Minnesota state laws relating to water resources.

Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism

Website of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) an interdisciplinary research centre concerned with law and policy issues relating to national and international security and counterterrorism. INSCT is based at Syracuse University, New York and the site provides information on faculty and staff at the Institute, academic courses and conferences and events. Details of publications by members of INSCT are given along with links to full text articles and related journals.

International Academy of Estate and Trust Law

The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law is an organisation for notaries, solicitors, lawyers, judges and academics experienced in probate and trust law. The Academy is concerned with the study of all types of vehicles for the transfer of wealth, such as corporations, partnerships, common law trusts, statutory trusts and foundations. The site has a directory of members which can be browsed by country or alphabetically by name. A database of publications written by members can be searched by author, title, year of publication or country; it contains bibliographic details only.

Legal Talk Network

Website of Legal Talk Network (LTN) a company providing internet radio programmes aimed at lawyers. The programmes are made freely available and can be played on the site using Window Media Player or downloaded in mp3 format. Recent topics covered include lawyer marketing, paralegals, immigrants and the law, legal technology and age discrimination. The radio shows can be browsed by date or topic. A selection of online forums dealing with themes covered in the programmes are included on the site.

Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice

The Sugar Law Center is a non-profit organisation based in Michigan in the US, providing community legal support and advocacy, with a particular focus on low-income and displaced workers. Its website has details of its aims and projects. It also provides information about workers' rights and has a page devoted to guidance and advice regarding the Michigan Unemployment Insurance System.

Center for Jury Studies

The Center for Jury Studies is a research organisation and project funded by the National Center for State Courts in the United States. The Center provides technical assistance to state and local courts on jury system management. Examples of this work can be downloaded from the site. Topics covered include representation of ethnic minorities on juries, juror stress, hung juries and the impact of Employer Tax on increasing the size of the juror pool.

Center for Empirical Research in the Law

The Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, is concerned with the study of law and legal institutions using quantitative research methods. The site gives details of staff and the academic and technical expertise available at CERL. There is information on current and past research projects, including the Supreme Court Forecasting Project, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) litigation analysis and the Martin-Quinn Scores of judicial ideology.

Martin-Quinn Scores

Website of the Martin-Quinn scores project at the Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at Washington University School of Law. The Martin-Quinn scores have been developed by Andrew D. Martin (Washington University) and Kevin M. Quinn (Harvard University) to measure judicial ideology and increase understanding of the politics of the Supreme Court. The site provides an introduction to the project, datasets showing the Martin-Quinn scores from October 1937 onwards and guidance on how to replicate this analysis.

Empirical Research Group

The Empirical Research Group (ERG) is a research centre at UCLA School of Law. It carries out quantitative research in the fields of law and public policy. The site describes the group's remit and provides a bibliography of recent empirical research by UCLA faculty members.

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