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ECGI's Working Papers in Law

Collection of working papers dealing with the legal aspects of corporate governance, business and finance made freely available by the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), a not for profit organisation conducting research into corporate governance issues. The working papers are written by ECGI Fellows and Research Associates and recent topics have included securities laws, international corporate regimes and civil liability and mandatory disclosure.

Academia.edu

Free platform for sharing academic research papers, including hundreds of thousands of law papers. Can be browsed by subject or searched. Registration, with no charge, is required to access full-text content; a premium version of the platform is available by subscription. The site was founded by Dr Richard Price of All Souls College, Oxford, in 2008. It is now a company based in San Francisco and Dr Price is the CEO.

How to read a legal opinion: a guide for new law students

Guidance for American law students, by Orin S. Kerr, Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Originally published in The Green Bag in Autumn 2007 and posted here on SSRN in 2008, the article has sections explaining what a judicial opinion is and looking at the caption, the case citation, who wrote the opinion, the facts of the case, the law of the case, concurring or dissenting opinions, common legal terms and types of disputes.

Defining international terrorism in light of liberation movements

Online article looking at the difficulties faced by the international community in defining international terrorism written by Innocent Maja who is the Senior Partner of Zimbabwean law firm, Maja and Associates Legal Practitioners. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author covers the years 1936 to 1990 and the post cold war years highlighting significant events that have led to difficulties in agreeing a definition of international terrorism.

Walkers Group

Walkers Group is a legal and management services firm based in the Cayman Islands, with branches in the British Virgin Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jersey, London and Tokyo. The Insights section of their website offers a collection of articles and memoranda on the law of the Cayman Islands, Jersey, the British Virgin Islands and other jurisdictions.

A little grafting of Second Life into a legal research class

Online article on the use of the Second Life virtual world in the teaching of legal research skills written by Rob Hudson who is Head of Information Services, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center - Law Library & Technology Center in Florida. The article was published in May 2008 in the features section of LLRX.com. The author describes the various ways in which he incorporated Second Life in the teaching of his International Legal Research Skills class.

Civil Rights Digital Library

The Civil Rights Digital Library is maintained by the University of Georgia. It covers the history of the African American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, providing links to books, documents, news films, photographs, articles, bibliographies, cartoons and other ephemera available online. The site can be browsed by theme, person and event. Topics covered include school desegregation, civil rights protests, the contribution of Martin Luther King and key US civil rights legislation. There is a large teacher support section, with lesson plans, timelines and annotated bibliographies.

NBER Law and Economics Program

Section of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) website providing information on their Law and Economics program. The NBER is a non-profit research centre based in the United States. Summaries of law and economics working papers and brief details of other NBER publications are provided, from the 1970s to the present; any user can download three free papers per year. Reports and meeting summaries are also available.
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