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Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Website for the Vis arbitral moot, made available by the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace Law School in the United States. The moot is an annual competition open to law students from any country, which aims to train the legal professionals of the future in methods of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). The website acts as the main source of information and news on the moot for competitors and judges, collating links to relevant legal texts, sponsoring organizations and useful links in Vienna, where the moot takes place.

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.

National Judicial College of Australia

Website of the National Judicial College of Australia, the organisation that provides training and professional development for judicial officers in Australia. The site has details of Council members and other officials and details of courses offered by the College. There is information on past and future conferences held by the College, including conference papers; other publications include a copy of the National Curriculum for professional development for Australian judicial officers and a report on judicial education in Australia. Parts of the site are password-protected.

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard: Harvard Law School

This website provides access to the research outputs of faculty and students at Harvard Law School, forming part of Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH), an open access repository. DASH contains scholarly articles and student papers which can be searched by author, title, keyword, sponsor and series or browsed by date, author, title and subject. Recent submissions can be accessed from the home page. Records provide bibliographic details with abstracts and a link to the full text.

All About Law

This site is aimed at people interested in pursuing a career in law in the United Kingdom. It provides background information on a range of legal professions including guidance on becoming a solicitor, barrister or legal executive. There is information on legal courses including the Legal Practice Course and the Bar Vocational Course. Tips and advice are given on topics such as choosing the right university, interviews and applications, training contracts and pupillage.

Hamlyn Lectures

Free access to the Hamlyn Lectures, a collection of lectures on various areas of law, by judges, legal academics, practitioners and other eminent speakers. The lecture series is run by the Hamlyn Trust, a charity supporting public legal education in the United Kingdom. Hosted on the website of the University of Exeter, School of Law, the lectures cover the period 1949 to the present; recent lectures are available as videos, or as slides with audio.

Doughty Street Chambers

Doughty Street Chambers is a UK-based barristers' chambers specialising in human rights and civil liberties law. The site provides profiles of barristers, academic experts and other staff and information on the areas of law covered. A collection of articles and papers by Doughty Street Chambers' barristers, associate tenants and academic experts is available under 'Insights'.

Hague Academy of International Law

The Hague Academy of International Law is a centre for research and teaching in public and private international law based at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Its website has details of its summer and external programmes and information about its publications. A collection of videos is also provided. The site can be viewed in English and French.

Federal Judicial Center

The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) is the education and research agency for the US federal courts. Its website provides research on the federal courts as well as educational materials for judges and court employees. Datasets covering civil and criminal filings and terminations in federal district courts, together with details of bankruptcy court and appellate court cases from 1970 onwards, are available in the FJC's Integrated Data Base . A section of the site gives information about the FJC International Office's work with foreign judges and court officials.

A Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Full text copy of "A Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals" written by Thomas E. Baker of the Florida International University, College of Law and made freely available online by the Federal Judicial Center, an education and research agency for the federal courts in the United States. The primer was published in 2009 (and updated in 2023) and provides an "introduction to the complexity and nuance in the subject-matter jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals".

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