American Bar Association
Highlight of this new site is what seems to be an immensely useful search capability that allows the user to search ABA archives either broadly or specifically. Membership in the ABA is not requisite to using this facility. 

FindLaw
A directory of legal web sites, produced by the people behind LawCrawler.

LawCrawler
Google-powered search engine that returns information only from sites that have been identified as dealing with legal issues.

Law.com
You won’t find the ability to search legal-related web pages, but there are lots of links, and the service offers free email assistance if you still can’t find what you are looking for, after visiting the site. Simply click on the Free Help button at the top of the home page to get help.

U.S. Trademark Search Page
Enter a few words, and you can quickly discover if a US trademark has been registered containing them. It’s free, easy and comes courtesy of the US Patent and Trademark Office. The link above is to the “Combined Marks” search page, which is very easy to use.

1. Use of law-specific sites with search engines

2. Use of search engines

3. Use of On-line bookshops as an information resource

1. Law-specific index and search sites

When doing legal research online, we do not have much choice of a search engine. Therefore it is important to identify that the information you are looking for is contained in the websites. There are a lot of websites which contain databases, links, indexes, and search engines.[2]One of the most useful, in my view, is the website of the Australasian Legal Information Institute, which contains not just Australasian legal materials, but also in its World Law sections has a wonderful collection of links to law sites and search engines. Therefore, when doing legal research online, it is an excellent site to start with: http://www.austlii.edu.au. If that site does not contain an answer to your question, then you can rely on other search engines listed below to find relevant sites.

2. Search engines

One very good search engine we are all already familiar with is Google: www.google.com, but there are many others that perform equally well, such as www.search.com and www.yahoo.com. When you have several different choices of search engines, you should not only know, as much as you can, the various characters of each search engine but also make a precise decision to pick the best one.Sometimes you may find a totally different result while conducting a second search via the Internet using a different but similar legal terminology. Therefore, if time is permitting, you should try to conduct your search with more than one search engine to confirm the results. Nowadays some searcher websites have collated several different search engines together[3] which offer stronger search power than using just one search engine. However, it also has some negative effects. The most obvious is that it will list more resources which are totally irrelevant to the information you are looking for. That is to say, in some cases, it will even affect the speed of searching instead of cutting down your searching time.

3. On-line bookshops as an information resource

Some on-line bookshops are also a very useful way of searching recently published books in English and other languages. Examples are:

http://www.Amazon.com

http://www.Amazon.co.uk

http://www.BarnesandNoble.com

http://www.Blackwells.co.uk

http://www.Dymocks.com

1. Online Information Skills Tutorial

http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/skills/tutorials/InfoSkills/index.htm

The tutorial help us students to have a good command of how to identify, search, use and evaluate information online. There are a range of self guided programs in this tutorial for us students to obtain some basic online legal search techniques and knowledge.

2. How to Use….Guides  http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/skills/howto/howto.html

Following the instructions offered by the How to Use Guides, we students can learn how to use most of the UNSW library resources from video to text. There are a lot of useful search tools provided for us students.

3. Subject Guides http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/law/guides/inter/interkey.html .

Core websites are all included in the Subject Guides which are edited by some subject specialist in UNSW library.

4. The Guide to Legal Research

Through the Guide to Legal Research, we students can use some useful online legal research tools to find most common law jurisdictions.

JUSTICE provides a useful search tool, but it is hoped that a formalised ontology will be adopted by headnote authors and be used to explicitly represent concepts within legal cases. The conversion of legacy cases, i.e. plaintext and HTML, to semantic representations can be achieved using a tool which identifies concepts within documents and has a knowledge on the applicable ontology. The tool can insert appropriate tags at start and stop locations of simple concepts or encode more complicated concepts within stand-alone tags.

(AUSTLII) – Australasian Legal Information Institute – legislation and court judgements for most jurisdictions (Commonwealth, States and Territories). Includes commentaries and summaries on the law by bodies such as the Australian Law Reform Commission. Also includes a number of law journals.

ComLaw and SCALEplus (Australian Attorney General’s Department) – legislation and ancillary documents and information for the Commonwealth and non-self governing Territories. ComLaw came online in January 2005 and contains the new Federal Register of Legistative Instruments and will eventually replace SCALEplus.

Weblaw – the essential subject gateway to quality assessed Internet resources for researching Australian law.

Law Internet Resources (Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library)

GovPubs – a selected guide to Australian government publications, such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, with links to online resources and information about the holdings of Australia’s National, State and Territory libraries. A historical description of each type of publication is provided.

The shopping center we were visiting actually was a quite fabulous one, with stores of different kinds glowing to attract us. What’s more, the environment there was just as beautiful and delightful as a park. People walked through the center slowly with a relaxing mood, also stimulated by the environment to be attempted to eat at the restaurant. The cool breeze gently passed by and I really hoped that I would like to take an afternoon’s time to have tea and take a walk around the Mall. During my stay in Hong Kong, I once had such an experience in Lamma Island, walking on the beach and breathing fresh air under pretty refreshing weather. But this was the first time for me in 2007, and was the first time for several years. After I entered university, seldom have I ever had enough time to appreciate literature or to take a walk with parents in a park. It doesn’t mean that I didn’t have leisure time. Yes, of course I did. It’s just that I was too tired to even turn a page of a certain book. Sometimes, I just wanted to watch DVD or TV to passively receive the so-called entertainment.
 

Another thing that occurred to me is that why Shanghai cannot create such a delightful shopping environment? Every time I went to Nanjing Road or other major shopping areas in Shanghai, I was just shocked by the large crowds of people at the mall and then I quickly retreated. Shopping centers in West, Nanjing Road and Pudong are actually satisfactory. Yet speaking of East Nanjing Road, I have to downgrade it due to the excessive number of people. Then I started to think of Hong Kong again, the city I have spent 4 months there. Many as there are people in the shopping center, it never give me a messy sight nor an anxious mood.
 

Anyway, New York still ranks top in my mind as a international shopping center, not to mention other fields where it excels other cities in the world. New York, New York, I’m coming. Hope that one day I will be able to walk on the street of New York with the best shoes in the world!!!

By Eoin Callan in Washington

Published: May 28 2007 23:10 | Last updated: May 28 2007 23:10
Robert Zoellick, former US deputy secretary of state, has emerged as the frontrunner to be the next president of the World Bank.

Senior US administration officials expect a decision on the successor to Paul Wolfowitz, who steps down as bank president on June 30 following an ethics scandal, to be announced this week in Washington.
Despite pressure from some countries for an open selection process, President George W. Bush has insisted that the next World Bank president must be an American, maintaining previous tradition.

Mr Zoellick, 53, a former US trade representative under Mr Bush, has widespread experience of and high-level contacts with Europe, China, Latin America and Africa. He was heavily involved in the peaceful reunification of Germany and played a leading role in efforts to revive the Doha trade round.

US officials cautioned that the final decision on the successor to Mr Wolfowitz had yet to be made. The other candidate was said to be Robert Kimmitt, deputy US Treasury secretary. Officials have insisted the next bank president will be an American chosen by the White House, despite demands from member countries for an open selection process.

Australia has thrown its weight behind demands for a change to the selection process for the presidency of the World Bank. Peter Costello, the Australian treasurer, wants the next head of the Washington-based development aid organisation to be chosen on the basis of an “open, transparent process’’ that will be based on merit and open to candidates from any country, not just the US.

The memo circulated among senior management said: “Someone with a sound reputation as a technician or policy adviser is not sufficient. There has to be a well established track record as a highly skilled manager with strong statesmanship.”

Mr Wolfowitz told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Monday that he was forced to resign because of an “overheated” atmosphere at the bank and press coverage of his role in winning a pay and promotion package for his partner.

Mr Wolfowitz said at the end of an internal inquiry, “finally the board did accept that I acted in good faith and acted ethically”. His lawyer demanded a statement from the bank’s board that he acted in good faith as a condition of his departure. “I accept the fact that by the time we got around to that, emotions here were so overheated that I don’t think I could have accomplished what I wanted to accomplish for the people I really care about,” he added.

Mr Wolfowitz made a broad call for the bank to view poverty in Africa as its most important challenge.

A report due to be issued by the bank on Tuesday underlines its shifting role. It shows a steady increase in private sector investment in emerging markets in recent years, but not to the poorest countries, mainly in Africa.

Net private capital flows to developing countries reached a record $647bn (£326bn) – 5.8 per cent of their gross domestic product and almost double the level reached during the last boom before the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Three-quarters of the capital flows to developing countries last year were equity investments worth about $419bn, including a wave of cross-border acquisitions.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007