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The internet has many resources available to the legal profession and those interested in the law more generally. A list of legal resources in the UK is available at UK Legal International Centre for Commercial Law From the UK: House of Lords judgments are available within two hours on the worldwide Web Acts of Parliament are published in full as soon as they are passed and the important sections from existing statutes can be accessed There are over 100 legal journals on the worldwide web including the Modern Law Review and the Law Quarterly Review as well as several electronic journals publishing immediate responses to new legal developments. A comprehensive list of journals with direct links to the sites is available New legal titles can be found online. Several bookshops and publishers are listed The Bar Council and the Law Society advise lawyers on a range of issues from legal events, conferences and seminars Useful links to libel-related sites Other Interesting cases One of the most important events in American journalism history occurred in New York in 1735. This was the libel trail of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New York Weekly Journal. The Acquittal of John Peter Zenger - The First, First Report by Steve Goldman The story of a 1923 libel case between Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Alfred Douglas A 1996 case from Taiwan involving the US and Taiwan governments The all-encompassing McLibel site Search the Dallas News site for details of the Oprah Winfrey case against the cattle farmers Read two press releases from the American Civil Liberties Union on 'veggie libel': Articles Todd Woody's interesting but brief article on libel with useful links Libel Law: Let It Die by Wired journalist Mike Godwin What Part of "No Law" Don't You Understand? A primer on the First Amendment and the Internet by constitutional scholar and attorney William Bennett Turner The Tangled Web of Libel Law by Linton Weeks, Washington Post staff writer Read Libel by Jonathan M. Albano from the The Massachusetts Bar Association, a useful overview of American situation News, Journals and mailing lists Media Lawyer provides a bi-monthly memoir on media law events which carries accounts of libel settlements affecting the media and relevant reports in the newspapers, including reports of challenges made by the media against court restrictions. LegalMinds provides access to public-interest mailing lists on the Web Up to date legal news at the Law Journal Extra with a section on media law. A transcript of episode 508 of television series Freedom Speaks on Libel: Punishing the Media FreeAdvice claims to be the most comprehensive site for legal information with an extensive section on libel law Organisations The Site for Site builders A useful introduction to libel on the net from the site builders advisers with a brief but useful section on Law and the web The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, is a "non-profit organisation dedicated to providing free legal help to reporters and news organisations The Freedom Forum is a very well funded American free speech association The American Lawyer Media, is "the nation's largest network of publications and Web sites providing legal news and information" The Libel Defense Resource Center is a non-profit information clearinghouse set up in 1980 by leading media groups to monitor and promote First Amendment rights in the libel, privacy, and related fields of law. The PEN American Center is a membership association of poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, and novelists (hence the acronym) Universities and Libraries As part of its Computers, Ethics, And Social Responsibility Course Stanford University has a useful resource on defamation and the internet which includes a section on the UK Look also at The Freedom Forum's Newseum Searches Excellent search engine from FindLaw This doesn't look much but has information about every American court ruling on libel law Search the New York University Law Library Search the Freedom Forum site for libel links Search Webcrawler for libel links Search on newsgroups Books Information about law books and courses from the Practising Law Institute, a non-profit continuing legal education organisation Excerpts from the libel chapter of Winning with the News Media by Clarence Jones Search Amazon.com for all the general legal and libel-related books you need Lawyers Firms An extensive resource from lawyer David Potts Sahota, a specialist UK libel practice The American lawyer firm Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke has a section on Digital Defamation
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