Law Resources

David Nollmeyer

    This site is intended to help persons access materials that will aid in areas of constitutional law, religion, philosophy, deontology, and social sciences. The links will represent international as well as national norms.

    International Law

Organization of American States - This is the western hemispheric supranational organization that is part of the universal system which is run by the United Nations. http://www.oas.org/

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - This is the homepage for the UNHCR and has many excellent resources. http://www.ohchr.org/english/

United States Constitutional Law

Law Library of Congress - This library is affiliated with the United States Government. http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html

Legal Information Institute - This is a superior quality source for constitutional law and case law. This organization is affiliated with Cornell University. http://www.law.cornell.edu/

FindLaw for Legal Professionals - This site is designed for the practicing professional with extensive links that reflect the discipline. http://lp.findlaw.com/

Legal Theory - This is an introductory paper on the RICO or Racketeered Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act. http://legaltheory.tripod.com/

Professional Lawyer Organizations

American Bar Association - This is the largest professional voluntary organization in the world with many useful resources. http://www.abanet.org/index.cfm

Law Enforcement

United States Federal Bureau of Investigation - This is the official homepage of one the premier law enforcement agencies in the world. The new emphasis on terror is focalized at the present. http://www.fbi.gov/

Metropolitan Police Force - Scotland Yard - The official presence for the legendary London United Kingdom police agency. http://www.met.police.uk/

Religion

New Advent - This is a Catholic based resource with whole works by St. Thomas and many excellent articles. http://www.newadvent.org/

Iskcon Revival Movement - This is a Ritvik based Gaudiya Vaishnava site dedicated to Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada. http://www.iskconirm.com/index.php

Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Stanford has an outstanding resource of small to medium size papers from world class writers from ancient to moderns. http://plato.stanford.edu/about.html

Atheism Web - This site is based on logic and fallacies and is quite useful. http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html

Human Rights

Amnesty International - AI is the worlds largest human rights advocacy organization with over one million members. The focus here is on international norms. http://www.amnesty.org/

Human Rights Watch - This is the world's second largest human rights advocacy organization with very good articles and information. http://www.hrw.org/

Human Rights Web - This small site contains many interesting and practical resources for those interested in basing their approach on international norms. http://www.hrweb.org/

Social Theory

Social Science Virtual Library - This is a good online source to begin with links to various disciplines from anthropology, economics, psychology and others. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/socsci/

Social Theory 1 - This site contains papers on Jean Piaget, ecological systems, antisocial personality, capital punishment, and euthanasia http://socialtheory1.tripod.com/

Capital Punishment: Opposing Perspectives On Moral, Ethical, and Legal Arguments - This is a very good pro and con paper on Capital Punishment. http://powereality.tripod.com/capitalpunishment/

The Sancticity of Life: A Refutation of Euthanasia - This paper refutes Euthanasia and gives insight to the various pro's and con's concerning the Liberty Interest and Due Process arguments. http://powereality.tripod.com/euthanasia.htm

Other Agencies and Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - This site is full of relevant statistics. Almost everything these days has analysis as a disease or a linkage thereto. http://www.cdc.gov/

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics - This is the University of Unrecht's free and downloadable resource. http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~gdegeest/

Human Rights Forum and Blogs

A Human Rights Forum and Blog have been created in order for you to add your comments and links:

http://future-state.blogspot.com/

http://humanrightsdiscussion.blogspot.com/

http://journals.aol.com/vamanadeva/nollmeyer_human_rights_blog/

http://spaces.msn.com/vamanadeva/

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