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Typography for Lawyers

The Typography for Lawyers website is provided by Matthew Butterick, a civil litigation attorney based in Los Angeles. It is a guide to typography for people who are not professional typographers - and for lawyers in particular. Topics covered include bold, underlining, centred text, hyphens and font types.

United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law: Lecture Series

Website of the Lecture Series section of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Library is a free online multimedia resource of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. The Lecture Series is a collection of video lectures given by given by leading international law scholars and practitioners. The lectures are arranged by subject including human rights, cultural heritage, development, international organisations, peace and security, courts and tribunals and the Arctic. A selection of related documents and profiles of the lecturers are also given on the site.

Exploring Humanitarian Law

Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) is an online education programme designed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Education Development Center Inc. (EDC). EHL is a free resource providing learning and teaching materials aimed at the 13 to 18 age group. The materials are organised into modules covering topics such as the humanitarian perspective, limits in armed conflict, the law in action, dealing with violations and responding to the consequences of armed conflict.

Information Literacy Resource Bank

The Information Literacy Resource Bank (ILRB) is a repository of learning resources designed for Cardiff University teachers. It has tutorials, quizzes, demonstrations, diagrams and images that can be downloaded and incorporated into learning materials. Subjects such as search techniques, citing references, databases and plagiarism are included in the repository, with a number focusing specifically on law and legal materials. Learning objects can be browsed by type or subject.

Landmark Supreme Court cases

Collection of twenty US Supreme Court cases that feature on US high school and middle school social studies curriculums, accompanied by teaching materials. Developed by the Supreme Court Historical Society and Street Law, the site provides case summaries,  excerpts from the majority and dissenting opinions, newspaper and courtroom accounts of the cases, chronologies, links to related websites and a glossary.

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