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Law Library Microform Consortium

The Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) is a non-profit, library cooperative based at the University of Hawaii in the United States. The LLMC was founded in 1976 and provides a subscription service giving access to legal and government publications in microfiche format and digitally online. The site has online catalogues listing the titles offered in microfiche format. These include US federal and state legal materials, US military law, canon law, Anglo-American legal periodicals, Anglo-American legal treatises and a collection of native American legal materials.

Family Justice Council

The Family Justice Council (FJC) was set up by the Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) following the consultation paper, 'Promoting inter-agency working in the family justice system' published in 2002. The purpose of the FJC is to "promote an inter-disciplinary approach to the needs of family justice" and their work includes identifying best practice in the family justice system and consulting with government departments on current policy. Background information on the FJC including their activities and terms of reference is given on the site.

Harry A. Blackmun Papers

Online guide to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun's papers produced by the Manuscript Reading Room at the Library of Congress where the collection is housed and made freely available on their website. The collection includes papers from 1913 to 2001 with most of the material covering Justice Blackmun's time as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

bepress Legal Repository

The bepress Legal Repository is a collection of freely available, law-related working papers contributed by a network of academic and research organisations and hosted on the Berkeley Electronic Press website. Indexed working paper collections cover topics including employment law, general law, health law and policy, intellectual property law, law and economics, law and society, public law and legal theory and taxation. The repository can be browsed by working paper collection, subject or institution and papers can be searched using a simple or advanced search facility.

Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques

Website of the Italian Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell'Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) (Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques) which was established in 2002. The ITTG carries out "research, specialized training, consultancy and technical-scientific transferal in the field of information and communications technology applied to law and public administration." The site gives details of research projects and publications, consultancy work and courses offered by the Institute.

vLex Justis

Website of vLex Justis a subscription service providing online legal information including legislation, case law, administrative materials, books, journals and legal news. Content covers the United Kingdom, United States, international law and a wide range of other jurisdictions.

HeinOnline

HeinOnline is a subscription database produced by U.S. legal publisher William S. Hein in collaboration with Cornell Information Technologies and the Cornell University Law Library. The database includes an extensive library of image-based full-text legal publications including out-of-print and historical legal research materials. Materials are grouped into a range of libraries including the Law Journal Library, US Supreme Court Library, English Reports, Treaties and Agreements Library, Legal Classics and the US Presidential Collection.

Melbourne Journal of International Law

The Melbourne Journal of International Law (MJIL) is a peer-reviewed academic journal managed by law students at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is published twice yearly and covers both public and private international law. The entire series is available on the website, together with details of the Editorial Board, Advisory Board and Honorary Advisory Board.

Forum Historiae Iuris

Forum Historiae Iuris is a legal history journal which is made freely available online by the Law Faculty at Humboldt University in Berlin. The journal includes articles, book reviews, lectures and research news most of which are presented in German. A selection of articles can be viewed in either English, French or Italian and some have an English summary. Articles are arranged by date and historical period including antiquity, middle ages, early modern period and nineteenth to twentieth century. Articles are made available in HTML or PDF formats.

Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research

Online resource guide to U.S. Supreme Court research written by Gail Partin who is Associate Law Librarian in the Sheely-Lee Law Library at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law in the United States. The guide was published in 2003 on LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) a free web journal for legal information professionals. Annotated links are provided to the most reliable official and unofficial Supreme Court websites. The guide includes links to opinions, case summaries, briefs and oral arguments.

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