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Via the Big Ear, this link to the Project on International Courts and Tribunal: “The new Courts and Tribunals section will include information about all currently functioning international judicial bodies, including contact information, cases (pending and decided), and information about the judges, together with news and selected bibliographies (coming soon) about each body.”
The first public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States is underway at the U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, New York City, New York. Hearing Agenda Witness Statements
From FindLaw’s website, Special Coverage, The War in Iraq, links that include: International Humanitarian Law (Law Of War), Other Treaties, Conventions and Protocols, and Coalition Rules For Embedded Journalists.
The Society of Professional Journalists launched a new website, Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions. The site provides links to the History of the Geneva Convention, Full texts of the Conventions, and an alphabetical look-up feature to locate definitions for language and phrases from the conventions, as well as their associated deep links in the …
New from the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC), Selected Congressional Research Service Reports on Congress and its Procedures. This resource also provides numerous links to other sources of CRS reports on the web from government, asssociation, commercial and academic sources.
Data Mining: Results and Challenges for Government Program Audits and Investigations, by Gregory D. Kutz, director, financial management and assurance, before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, House Committee on Government Reform. GAO-03-591T, March 25.
The Marion Brecher Citizen Access Project (CAP), from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is a “comparative guide to state laws controlling citizen access to government meetings and records.” The project provides a growing database of information on public records that uses a ‘sunshine’ index rating scale (to indicate the level of …
The Clinton Presidential Center website, still under construction, includes the following statement: “Since President Clinton had the honor of being the first president of the Internet age, this site will function as the first truly virtual Presidential Library. It will encourage users to search for information, communicate through chats, create a dialogue and participate in …
The featured research center on the Library of Congress Today is the Law Library of Congress. It is worth noting this especially useful collection and the expertise of the professionals who work there: “The mission of the Law Library is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress, U.S. Federal Courts and Executive …
According to this article in today’s New York Times, the Bush Administration is well on its way to removing declassified government documents on national security from the public domain, as well as implementing a new policy to prevent such documents acquired in the future from reaching public view. A final order is expected in April …
EPIC has launched the Online FOIA Gallery 2003, providing “scanned images of documents obtained by EPIC through the Freedom of Infomation Act, including evidence of the misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, video monitoring of political protesters in Washington, DC, and the names and project titles of the organizations receiving funding from John Poindexter …
Yesterday the U.S. Census Bureau launched a new website, Fast Facts for Congress, that “provides highlights from Census Bureau sources of economic and demographic data for the U.S., states, counties, and congressional districts of the 108th Congress.” Users may search for data by State, District, or County.
