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Sentencing Project:

The Sentencing Project is an independent US organisation founded in 1986 to promote "reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration".The site has sections focusing on sentencing policy, incarceration, racial disparity, offender disenfranchisement, drug policies and women in the justice system. Each section provides access to full text reports, briefing sheets, educational materials and news items. There is a collection of advocacy materials and statistics arranged by state.

Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

Web pages of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, published by Taylor and Francis and produced in conjunction with the Whittier Law School, Los Angeles. The journal seeks to address the legal and political issues relating to humans' interrelationship with, and management of, wildlife, their habitats and the biosphere. Contents lists with abstracts are available from volume 1 (1998) to the current issue; from 2003 onwards it is also possible to buy individual articles or journal issues online.

Charity Law Unit

Web pages of the Charity Law Unit at the School of Law, University of Liverpool. The Unit was established in 1994 to develop research and teaching on charity law in the UK. The site presents details of its research, conferences, courses, seminars and teaching. Lists of recent publications, conference papers, seminar presentations and recent theses are available; a few of these have links to the full text.

LLRX.com

LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Exchange) is a free legal technology e-journal for information professionals specialising in law. It provides resource guides, feature articles and columns on legal research and technology issues. Articles can be browsed by date, author, or subject, and there is a search facility. Many articles focus on US law, but foreign law is also covered, and most of the technology articles are not limited to a particular jurisdiction.

European safety and health legislation

Website of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. The Agency was set up by the European Union to serve the information needs of those interested in occupational health and safety issues in member countries. This section of the site provides access to directives, standards and guidelines along with other official documentation of the European Union. Full text legislation is linked to on the EUR-Lex database. There is also guidance to health and safety legislation of individual member countries with links to key texts provided on external sites.

Task Force on Life and the Law

Web pages of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, on the website of the State's Department of Health. The Task Force was formed in 1985, and convenes to consider important public policy issues to do with advances in medicine. A fact sheet on the website outlines the Task Force's mandate, and how its recommendations have had an impact on US legislation and court decisions.

World Law: Belize

Section of WorldLII's Countries service covering Belize in Central America. The site offers search facilities to trace internet resources for Belize including materials relating to Government, Courts, Legislation, Elections, Foreign Investment and Intellectual Property. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to Belize on all of WorldLII. WorldLII was created and is being developed by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

World Law: Turks and Caicos Islands

Links to legal materials and law related Internet resources for the Turks and Caicos Islands presented on WorldLII's Countries service. The Islands are British dependent territories in the Bahamas chain situated in the West Atlantic Ocean. Link collections provide access to sites dealing with the Turks and Caicos Islands supported by a saved search to automatically query all of WorldLII for materials relating to the Turks and Caicos Islands. WorldLII is run by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.

World Law: Saint Helena

Part of WorldLII's Countries service covering Saint Helena, the volcanic island in the South Atlantic. Saint Helena is a British dependent territory. A range of browse and search features is provided by the service. Link collections include materials relating to Courts and Case and Government sites. A stored search will automatically query all of WorldLII for items about Saint Helena. WorldLII is run by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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