Research centres and projects

UC Berkeley War Crimes Center

The UC Berkeley War Crimes Center was founded in 2000. It is involved in training judges and monitoring and archiving information relating to war crimes trials. Its website provides information on the purpose and activities of the Center. It includes news about ongong trials plus access to full-text documents relating to specific cases. Topics covered include: the Nuremberg 1945 trials, war crimes tribunals and trials relating to Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Indonesia and East Timor.

University of Durham Human Rights Centre

Website of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Durham's Department of Law. The site gives details of research projects being undertaken at the Centre. These are focused on the areas of International Human Rights, European Human Rights and domestic law. There are profiles of staff at the Centre along with a list of their publications. The site also provides a link to the Department of Law's Human Rights Act database containing bibliographical references to articles and cases relating to the Human Rights Act 1998. Links to related human rights websites are also given.

Transitional Justice Institute

Website of the Transitional Justice Institute, a research centre based at the University of Ulster. Transitional justice is defined on the site as being the "interim legal arrangements which come to the fore as states enter into transition from violent conflict to peace and democracy". Profiles are given of staff at the Institute along with details of their publications and links to full-text articles where available. Details are given of forthcoming events and research projects taking place at the Institute. A Peace Agreements Database is made freely available to browse or search.

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Website of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, founded in 1999 and based at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A large collection of the Center's publications is available on the website for free, including research reports, conference reports and articles. Information is also provided about events and courses and there are profiles of the research fellows and staff.

FLARE - Foreign Law Research

FLARE is a collaborative project whose aim is to improve the provision of foreign, comparative and international law materials to the UK research community. The project members are the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library, the Bodleian Law Library, the Squire Law Library, the British Library, and the School of Oriental and African Studies Library.

Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law

Website of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, a joint project of the Faculty of Economics, Business and Law (EBL), the Faculty of the Sciences and the School of Law at the University of New England in Australia. The Centre carries out research and special projects for the Australian agricultural industries. Brief details of research projects are given on the site along with news stories relating to the Centre. Links are provided to PDF files of some of the Centre's publications and research papers written or co-authored by the Centre's staff and Research Associates.

Turkmenistan: Eurasia.Net

This site forms part of EurasiaNet.org which provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, Turkey, and Southwest Asia. It includes news stories, analysis and reports about Turkenistan.Topics covered include politics, economics, elections and security in the region.

Global Competition Law Centre

The Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) is a research centre at the College of Europe in Belgium. Its aim is to analyse EU competition policy and to provide a discussion forum for academics and practitioners in the field. The site gives background information about the GCLC and its work, including conferences and other events. GCLC working papers are on the site in full text from 2004 onwards and presentations and papers are available from many past events.

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