The Pretrial Justice Institute is a Washington DC based, non-profit organisation providing information, publications and training on pretrial issues to US criminal justice practitioners. The website provides details of projects the PJI is involved with and reports and surveys the Institute has produced. Reports are presented in a range of formats and cover subjects such as youth justice, pretrial drug testing and the "three strikes" legislation.
The Archive of European Integration (AEI), maintained by the University of Pittsburgh, is an online repository of documents relating to the development of the European Union. It consists of EU official documents - such as green and white papers, treaties and reports - and independently-published materials such as conference papers, working papers and journal articles. The Archive can be searched by keyword, or browsed by topic, year, or document number.
Website of the Cork Online Law Review (COLR) published annually by students at the Law Faculty of University College Cork in Ireland and made freely available online. The articles featured in the COLR are written by students and focus primarily, but not exclusively, on aspects of law in Ireland. Subjects covered in the 2010 issue include alternatives to traditional sentencing methods in South Africa, the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 and balancing conflicting interests during pregnancy. The articles are made available in full-text in PDF format.
Iran Law is a guide to online legal resources focusing on Iran which are made freely available on the web. Iran Law forms part of Pars Times a web guide to international sources of news, economics, business and financial information with particular emphasis on Iran. The guide has sections with links to the Iranian Constitution in English and Persian along with information on parliament and the judiciary. Links to Iranian laws are arranged by subject including business, trade, intellectual property, environmental and family law.
Website of the Iranian-American Bar Association (IABA) which was formed in 2000 as a non-profit organisation representing the Iranian-American legal community. The site includes profiles of directors and officers of the IABA, details of future events organised by the Association and a PDF copy of their by-laws. There is a directory of members and full text copies of the IABA Review and the IABA Newsletter can be viewed in PDF. Links to papers, reports and other resources are also provided.
Website of the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), a non-profit research organisation established in 1995 and based in Switzerland. The work of the IELRC focuses on international environmental legal issues. There is organisational information on the site and details of the IELRC's work which includes research, consultancy and teaching. Details are given of IELRC research programmes which cover biodiversity, climate change, human rights and intellectual property. Related articles are included as HTML or PDF documents.
Online version of the Artlaw column which is published in Art Monthly and made freely available on the Artquest website. The column is written by barrister Henry Lydiate and deals with legal issues affecting artists. The archive can be browsed by subject. Subjects covered include contracts, money, studios, copyright issues, censorship and publication rights. Each subject heading has an introduction and a list of links to the relevant articles. Articles date back to 1976 and are presented in full-text in HTML format.
The Advicenow resource guide brings together information on the law and rights in England and Wales from a wide range of advice and information services. The website gives access to a searchable database of hand-picked links to information on over 200 websites. Information is arranged into broad subject headings including benefits, communications, consumer affairs, education and training, employment, environment and countryside, families, government, law and rights, health and social care, housing and homelessness, immigration, money and tax, police and crime and transport.
This section of the European Parliament's website contains the full text of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union with detailed commentary on each chapter. Links are provided to relevant national, international and EU laws. Annexes contain reports by independent experts on the safeguarding of fundamental rights in Europe; UN and Council of Europe conventions; and a list of NGOs involved in the field of fundamental rights.
Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper 5/2000 by Jean-Claude Piris, published on the website of New York University Law School's Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. The paper discusses constitutional issues relating to the European Union. This includes an examination of whether the founding treaties of the EU constitute a 'constitution' and how they could be strengthened.
