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Medical Negligence

Website created by Engish barrister Geoffrey Hall, formerly editor of the Medical Law Reports. The site is the home of the online law report ‘Medical Litigation Cases’ (MLC), edited by Hall; the series covers medical negligence and related subjects such as coroners, medical product liability, sterilisation and wrongful birth. It also includes news, articles and a page of links. Non-subscribers may read the news items, access the links page and view case lists and article titles, but only subscribers can access full-text law reports and articles.

Roberto Unger

This is a site devoted to the work of Roberto Unger of Harvard Law School, a critical legal scholar, philosopher and social theorist. Provides a selection of articles and books chapters, biographical articles about Roberto Ungera and a bibliography. There is also a page of links to other legal theory and social theory websites.

Current Awareness for Legal Information Managers

A searchable database containing details of recent books and periodical articles relevant to law librarians and legal information specialists. The database covers material published from December 1994 onwards. It is produced by Katherine Read and Heather Memess at the University of London's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, for the Current Awareness column of Legal Information Management, the professional journal of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.

Law Library Microform Consortium

The Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) is a Minnesota-based non-profit organisation. The LLMC was founded in 1976 to preserve ageing legal and government publications initially in microfiche format and now digitally online. The database has historical materials including statutes, session laws, judicial decisions, administrative regulations, and government reports from jurisdictions around the world. LLMC can be browsed by jurisdiction, date (from the eleventh century), language or type of material or searched by keyword.

Ecclesiastical Law Society

Website of the Ecclesiastical Law Society (ELS), an organisation established in 1987 to promote the study of ecclesiastical and canon law. The site outlines the aims of the Society and gives details of its events and publications, including the Ecclesiastical Law Journal. The book, 'The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion' can be downloaded in pdf format, free of charge. To accompany the book, the site provides a bibliography, details of selected cases and links to Church resolutions and other official documents.

Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Recht

The Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Recht (Virtual Law Library) is a portal to high-quality legal resources on the internet, with an emphasis on German legal information. It forms part of the Special Law Collection at the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage in Germany. The portal is arranged into eight sections. The Subject Information Gateway provides access to resources relevant to academic legal research and can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject.

Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual

Online library of Mexican law books and journals, provided on an open-access basic by the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). Journals are accessible from 1990 onwards and over 6,000 Mexican law books are provided. The library can be searched by author or title. The site is mostly in Spanish, but an English interface is available.

Computerisation of Law Resources

An AustLII database containing almost 150 journal articles, reports and conference papers on the computerisation of legal resources and legal tasks. Subjects covered include legal inferencing systems, retrieval systems, litigation support systems, computerised legal research techniques, standards for legal information, and public policy on access to law. There is also a collection of publications about AustLII. The database can be browsed alphabetically by author or searched by keyword; materials provided date from 1993 to 2020.

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