CULTURE
| Legal sites |
Jurist - Legal news and research
Delia Venables - Legal resources in the U.K. and Ireland
Official U.S. Supreme Court site
Oyez - You can listen to oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court - .mp3 files, transcripts available. Lawrence v. Texas is here. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is here
| Legal audio and video documents |
listening exercises from celan.droit
English for law blog Links to a collection of law related videos and audios, updated regularly.
Jurist video Great choice, constantly updated, archives, video and audio
the Law Report ( Australian radio) - only 4 weeks audio archive, but complete transcripts, 30 minutes every week
Legal Issues in the News with Amy Gajda (American radio), archives, no transcript, 3-4 minutes every week
| Europe |
The official European Union site
BBC Europe Today site where you can listen to the latest programme
European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters
The Constitutional Treaty: The Future of Europe? Heritage Foundation, January 26, 2005. RealPlayer, 1 hr. 9 minutes. (historical interest...)
The Europa website has a portal for their audiovisual services. You can watch plenary sessions live, or download .mp3 audio files. (Registration required).
Humanitarian law in the EU and universal jurisdiction - you can find the transcript here.
Law in the court of public opinion - Harvard Law School 2006
For more listening suggestions, see the sites for students of public international law
For the very latest in audio and video links, go to the English for Law blog
You can subscribe to a podcast, Inside Europe , by Deutsch Welle.
The Law Report - Australian radio - has in its archives "The Law Report in Europe". Especially interesting is "European Court of Justice" which has an interview with the British justice on the European Court of Justice - the sound file has disappeared from the archives, but the transcript is still there.
EISIL - Electronic Information System for International Law - developed and maintained by the American Society of International Law with a 7 min. demonstration video (Realplayer required) of how to use the site.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/ejn/ (EU site "European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters)
http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/ (very complete starting point for all things European)
German Law Journal — German, European and International Jurisprudence
blogs
EU Law Blog — for students, academics, practitioners and anyone else who may be interested in it - very complete
Comparative Law Blog also has information about EU scholarship
Jus cogens — the "recent scholarship" feature will keep you up to date on everything international, not principally for European Community law, but with an occasional reference to it
| International |
World Relief Organisations explained on Learners Online
WATCHING OR LISTENING on the internet - for more on audio and video on the internet, see the English for law blog. For a selection of entries concerning Public International Law, click here.
International Law Video Library from Queen's University Belfast - interviews with international judges, organised by subjects (sources of international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law...) - excellent
Radio Netherlands has a special series entitled International Criminal Justice. It includes Nuremberg — Law on Trial and The Special Court for Sierra Leone, among other things. Other programs include Prosecuting the most serious crimes - (29 min. Realplayer or WindowsMediaPlayer) - Law and peace, part 1 - 4 Oct. 2006 - 29 min. part 2 - 11 Oct. 2006
PBS (American non-commercial television) NewsHour recordings - they have scripts you can read to help you understand and might be a good place to begin.
CALLS FOR U.N. REFORM March 21, 2005
CRISIS IN SUDAN March 17, 2005
CHINESE CHALLENGE TO TAIWAN March 14, 2005
CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT March 10, 2005
PBS newer programs have RealAudio, download (.mp3), or streaming video - with a transcript. New reports include
African Expert Offers Closer Look at Darfur Crisis Oct. 16, 2007
U.N. Chief Forging New Solutions on Climate, Conflicts Oct. 11, 2007
Other reports can be found here.
Some longer recordings :
The Long Roots of International Law — a "diavlog" from bloggingheads video, with Jennifer Martinez, Stanford Law School and Henry Farrell, George Washington University. 50 min. no transcript - flash, WMP, .mp4, .mp3
International Law and Individuals: International Criminal Tribunals, Stanford Law School, March 18, 2005
Justice Albie Sachs of the South African Constitutional Court - lecture entitled "Freedom and Bread: the Judicial Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights" audio, very clear and easy to understand
http://media.law.harvard.edu:8888/ramgen/international_justice/2005_01_19_minow_intl_justice.rm Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, spoke to students at Harvard Law School. Led by Professor Martha Minow, an expert in international justice, Ocampo spoke about his role as the first I.C.C. prosecutor and the challenges of working within an emerging legal system. (video)
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/monitor/2004/11/remaking-global-rules-professor.php Remaking Global Rules: From Torture to Trade [Philippe Sands] (video)
More Philippe Sands, March 30, 2006 - a speech at the New America Foundation think tank "Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules". You can either follow a link to the video recording, where the event begins at about 8 min, or download an .mp3 audio recording.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/monitor/2004/10/abu-ghraib-and-torture-professor-david.php Abu Ghraib and torture [Professor David Luban] (video)
http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/7890.rm (Humanitarian law in the EU and universal jurisdiction)
http://law.wustl.edu/pilss/videos/2004-05/koh.ram (Dean Harold Koh, Yale Law School - The Supreme Court Meets International Law) (video)
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/monitor/2004/11/war-in-iraq-is-it-illegal-columbia-law.php (Legality of the war in Iraq - George Fletcher and Ruth Wedgwood - at Columbia Law School) (video)
Justice Learning United Nations peacekeeping (audio)
Justice Talking has several programs of interest to international law The most recent programs have transcripts and are available in .mp3 format.
Darfur - discussion on the merits of US involvement in the Darfur conflict - Nov. 24, 2006 with Eric Posner (Chicago), Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern) & Matthew Lippman (U of Illinois, Chicago) — .mp3, 1 hr, no transcript
and don't forget UN Radio, with news everyday
READING
A thought provoking debate between Eric Posner (Chicago) and Oona Hathaway (Yale) - Is international law useful?
blogs
RESEARCH
EISIL - Electronic Information System for International Law - developed and maintained by the American Society of International Law with a 7 min. demonstration video (Realplayer required) of how to use the site.
International Law-Related Websites from the Jean Monnet Programme
Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law
UN Watch - with its own multimedia page
Human Rights Watch since this site can be viewed in English and in French, you can use it to make your own glossary. It now has audio and video.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
German Law Journal — German, European and International Jurisprudence
| Civilisation - American |
Do suspected enemies have rights
History of the Civil Rights battle
| Civilisation - UK |