Official website of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. The site has details of the judges and a history of the Court. Judgements are linked to on AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) and sentences of the court, for the last month, are provided on the site. Unreported judgements pre-1985 are in the process of being added to the site in full text. There is guidance for people attending court and details of organisations providing legal advice.
Website of the Tasmanian Government providing gateway access to Tasmanian government departments and services. These include links to the websites of the Premier, the Cabinet and the Tasmanian Parliament. There is general information about the state including tourism, news, maps and directories and sites focusing on business and investment. Government press releases can be searched or browsed and there is a comprehensive listing of Tasmanian government and community sites arranged by subject.
Website of the Center on Law and Security a think tank based at the New York University School of Law which brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers in the fields of law and security. The site has organisational information, profiles of faculty and staff and details of courses and publications of the Center.
Water Laws is an online journal published by Smith Partners a Minnesota based law firm specialising in local government and water resources law. Water Laws is made freely available online and provides access to case law, legislation and comment on US (Minnesota in particular) water resources law and policy. Digests of recent decisions on water law from the Minnesota state courts and federal courts are arranged by subject. There are links to Minnesota state laws relating to water resources.
Website of the London Gazette, the UK's official newspaper of record, which publishes official, regulatory and legal information. Information included in the Gazette covers corporate, defence, environmental, honours, insolvency, planning and transport issues. A number of separate supplements are also published including the Ministry of Defence Supplement, the weekly Company Law Official Notifications and supplements dealing with honours and awards. Recent issues can be browsed by subject and the archive can be searched by date, keyword or issue number.
The UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office's treaty pages, including the treaty database UK Treaties Online, treaties that have been signed by the UK but not yet been ratified (or equivalent) and information about multilateral treaties deposited with the FCDO. Guidance on UK treaty practice and procedure is also available, together with contact details for the FCDO Treaty Section's enquiry service.
The Neuroethics and Law Blog covers legal and ethical issues concerning the mind and the brain. It is edited by Adam J. Kolber of the University of San Diego. The blog is intended for bioethicists, legal academics, practitioners, neuroscientists, neurologists, criminologists and others. Posts highlight newly published research, news items and details of conferences and events. Links are given to journal articles, research papers and related websites. There is an archive of posts going back to July 2007.
The Buraku Liberation and Human Rights Research Institute (BLHRRI) is a research and training organisation concerned with discrimination against the Buraku people in Japan. Buraku people are a minority group whose ancestors were considered outcasts because of their occupations. The site provides background and historical information, details of BLHRRI's publications and issues of Buraku Liberation News from 1997 onwards; this newsletter can be viewed in English and gives details of events, activities and research along with campaign updates. The site is in English and Japanese.
Guide to human rights protection of minority languages in Africa, by Innocent Maja, Senior Partner of a Zimbabwean law firm and a Lecturer in the Private Law Department at the University of Zimbabwe's Faculty of Law. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The author provides an introduction to the subject looking at various definitions of what a minority language is and the threat of extinction to minority languages.
Online guide to the law and legal system of Estonia written by Jannu Kuusik who is a legal adviser with Tallinn City Government and Kart Miil who is a librarian at Tartu University Library. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The guide gives background and historical information to the governmental and legal system in Estonia. There is a section dealing with the Constitution including a link to the full text of the Constitution and other legislation provided in English.
