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Law Handbook Online- Victoria

Electronic version of the Law Handbook, a practical, plain English guide to the law in Australia. The Handbook was compiled, and made freely available online, by the Fitzroy Legal Service a community legal centre based in Victoria. The Law Handbook is arranged by topic headings such as dealing with the legal system, families and children, managing your money, fair treatment, buying and selling and dealing with the government. The text has links to external web resources including legislation and organisations, other sections within the Handbook and words featured in the glossary.

EIF Compliance Database

Compilation of studies focusing on the implementation of EU legislation, based at the University of Vienna's Centre for European Integration. The database brings together quantitative academic research concerning the implementation of directives and compliance with EU law.

Gender Justice Collection

The Gender Justice Collection (formerly the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice) is a resource provided by Cornell Law School in the United States. It comprises treaties and other regional and international documents relating to gender-based violence and gender justice, along with statutes and case law from around the world.

LESIJ.JS

LESIJ.JS is an open-access online journal provided by Nicolae Titulescu University in Romania. It covers covers all areas of law, but focuses particularly on topics that cross traditional branches of the law and the relationship of law to other disciplines. Topics covered include criminal justice, socio-legal studies, criminology, European private law, internet law and intellectual property law. As well as the current issue, back issues are available back to 2006.

Internet Library of Early Journals: digital library of 18th and 19th century journals

Archived version of a resource created by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, providing free access to a number of leading 18th and 19th century English journals: Gentleman's Magazine (1731-50); the Annual Register (1758-78); Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-77); Notes and Queries (1849-69); the Builder (1843-52) and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863). The original version of the site (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/) has been withdrawn.

Department for Communities - Law and Legislation

The Department for Communities is a department of the Northern Ireland Executive. Its key responsibilities are housing, social policy, social security and child welfare. This site features electronic collections of current Northern Ireland (NI) social security and child welfare legislation, and links to NI legislation relating to housing and social policy (such as licensing laws). There is also a link to the Northern Ireland Digest of Case Law database which includes decisions of the Social Security Commissioners and Child Support Commissioners for Northern Ireland.

Independent Case Examiner

Section of the UK government website covering the Independent Case Examiner (ICE), who investigates complaints made by users of agencies including the Child Support Agency, the Child Maintenance Service, Jobcentre Plus, the Pension Service, the Disability and Carers Service, Debt Management, Pension Wise and the Pension Protection Fund. Provides guidance on how to make a complaint and how complaints will be dealt with, additional information about the work of the ICE, annual reports and news items about the service.

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.

Military legal resources

This Library of Congress web page provides a selection of legal materials held by the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School Library. It includes primary source materials and publications in the field of military law. There is a series of Army Lawyer pamphlets available back to 1971, and complete issues of the Military Law Review journal.

Edmund M. Morgan Papers on the drafting of the Uniform Code of Military Justice

This Harvard Law School Library collection contains digitised versions of 6,664 papers donated by Harvard Law School Professor Edmund M. Morgan, who was chair of the United States Committee on a Uniform Code of Military Justice (CUCMJ) in 1948. The Code replaced the separate codes that had previously existed for the Army and Navy.

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