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Legal Oral History Collection
Oral history interviews with lawyers, judges and law professors in Arkansas from the Legal History course are being cataloged and processed. They will be placed in Law Preservation. These titles can be searched by the common title beginning with, "Oral history interview with..." They can also be searched by author using the name of interviewee, interviewer and the School of Law, and by subject using the name of the interviewee and the phrase, "Legal oral history collection." You can also retrieve titles by keyword search using "Oral history." You can view one of the records here.
Legal Websites of the Month (AALL Online Bibliographic Services)
The American Association of Law Libraries Online Bibliographic Services has chosen the websites of these electronic journals as legal websites of the month.
July
Justia regulation tracker: This site provides free access to Federal rules, proposed rules, notices, administrative orders, executive orders, and proclamations. Users may search by department or agency, include keywords, and limit by document type or date; or browse by agency or date. Coverage begins January 1, 2005.
The statute law database: This site is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online. Users can view amended legislation as it has changed over time, see how legislation will be affected by amendments not yet in force, see how legislation has been amended for different jurisdictions, navigate links between affecting and affected legislation, and search the text of legislation for words and phrases.
June
CanLII : Canadian Legal Information Institute. This site provides access to primary sources of Canadian Law accessible for free on the Internet. The site includes legislative and judicial texts, as well as legal commentaries, from federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions, and the information is available in both French and English.
The Special Court for Sierra Leone: According to the homepage, "The Special Court for Sierra Leone was set up jointly by the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations. It is mandated to try those who bear the greatest responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law and Sierra Leonean law committed in the territory of Sierra Leone since 30 November 1996." The website provides information about the Court, information related to its cases, basic documents of the Court, and practice directions and directives of the Court.
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea entered into force on 16 November 1994. A subsequent Agreement relating to the implementation of Part XI of the Convention entered into force on 28 July 1996. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an independent judicial body established by the Convention to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of the Convention. The Tribunal is composed of 21 elected independent members. This site provides general information, proceedings and judgments, documents and publications, news, and question and answer sections in both English and French.
The International Seabed Authority: This site contains information on the administrative bodies of the International Seabed Authority, including the Assembly, Council, Legal and Technical Commission, Finance Committee and the Secretariat. This site also includes a list of documents issued by the Authority at each of its sessions, and the full text of selected documents, and the information is available in English, French, or Spanish.
May
1) LawProse, Inc. : interviews of United States Supreme Court Justices: This site presents interviews conducted by Bryan Garner in 2006 and 2007 with 8 of the 9 U.S. Supreme Court Justices. In these interviews, the justices talk about issues such as writing legal briefs and appearing before the court.
2) ELS bibliography: A database hosted by the UCLA School of Law that contains empirical legal research material published after July 2005. The database includes law reviews from top law schools in the country, major specialty journals, legal journals not published by law schools, and journals in other areas: economics, political science, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Entries include the following bibliographic data: author and affiliation, subject categories, and data in Blue Book format. The articles are searchable by author, title, subject and year.
3) Cato journal: A public policy journal that is written and edited to be accessible to lay readers.
April
1) The Environmental law net:
Created as a client service tool in 1998 by environmental and energy lawyer David Blackmar, Environmental Law Net is a leading resource for environmental law research and news. This site is currently under reconstruction, but currently visitors may access information via the two main content divisions: legal information libraries and community resources. There are six legal information libraries which are broken into document libraries and task-specific libraries. The document libraries cover laws and regulations, court and agency decisions, and other agency documents. The task-specific libraries cover compliance, enforcement and litigation, and real estate and corporate transactions. The community resources area provides a daily newsfeed, reference tools, a moderated interview and seminar forum, editorial articles, and other useful features.
2) Environmental Council of the States:
Based in Washington, D.C., Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) is a nonprofit association of state and territorial environmental commissioners. The website highlights the work of ECOS, including the states involved, projects, research, and the policies of ECOS.
3) EU environmental policy handbook:
A critical analysis of EU environmental legislation: making it accessible to environmentalists and decision makers. This 2005 book was edited by Stefan Scheuer. It describes the history and current status of EU environmental law, and also looks to the future by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the actions taken so far.
March
1) The Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law, which is sponsored by the University of Miami's Ethics Program and the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Public Policy. According the journal's website, it "is an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to examining issues in the intersection of applied philosophy, science, and the law. The Journal seeks to stimulate research and publish articles in the following areas: Philosophical issues associated with science policy and the growth of technology; Philosophy, the legal system, and scientific evidence; The influence of legal and ethical guidelines on scientific research; and Educational issues relating to how legal and ethical guidelines are taught within scientific fields."
2) Regulation magazine from Cato Institute. This journal provides analysis of regulatory and economic policies by the nation's leading economists, policy analysts, and legal experts.
3) The Stanford Agora: an Online Journal of Legal Perspectives, and its predecessor, the Stanford Journal of Legal Studies. According to the Agora's website, it "is an exclusively online journal that seeks to enrich legal discourse by creating a forum for the discussion of vital legal issues by lawyers and non-lawyers alike."
