Michaelmas Term has just flown by and so to our readers who are heading away from Oxford this week, have a great Christmas break. For those of you who are staying in Oxford, we are open until 5pm on the 22nd December, although our opening hours will be changing on Monday 4th December to Monday… Read More »
The Bodleian Law Library is participating in this year’s Oxford “Open Doors” weekend on Friday and Saturday, 8-9 September 2023. (The Open Doors events continue on Sunday, though the Law Library is not participating on that day.) The purpose of the weekend is to enable a wider public to see interesting and important buildings, including… Read More »
By Ronald Richenburg As the first coronation in almost 70 years draws near, thoughts of history, tradition, ceremony, national pride, and contract law will fill many minds (the last of these perhaps to a slightly lesser degree than the others!). At least since 2003, the various paperback editions of Treitel on Contract have used interesting paintings… Read More »
After many years with the same ‘look’, Lexis Library has updated its interface to a new and more streamlined version – Lexis+ UK. From Thursday 15th September, when you go onto Lexis, this new platform will be ‘live’ and the old version will no longer be available. Like with most new platforms, the best way… Read More »
By Ronald Richenburg Today, Saturday, 11 December 2021, is an important anniversary that no longer receives the commemoration that it deserves, being the 90th anniversary of the Statute of Westminster 1931. [1] This was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament in which, most importantly, it was explicitly stated that no future act would extend… Read More »
Do you want to keep up to date on your subject? This blog post will go through some of the current awareness tools, sources and methods you can use to save you time in keeping abreast of recent developments in your area of law. We will be looking at delivery methods, table of contents services, databases… Read More »
Are you having to do a formal literature review or just needing to start your research? Below we discuss some of the things that may help you. We will be looking at each of the different elements briefly but will (hopefully) point you to resources so you can dive a little deeper. This blog… Read More »
Welcome to Oxford for those new to the University and welcome back to those that have returned. We hope to see you all in the Law Library throughout this term. Depending on whether you have visited us recently, a few things have changed and a few things have returned to the pre-pandemic situation and so… Read More »
Those of you that have followed the blog for a number of years will remember that we usually finish off the year with a series of festive posts. This year, as with a lot of other things, we have had to put our pens to one side to focus on adapting to the new normal. … Read More »
By Ronald Richenburg About 25 years ago, the library of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1 was largely disbanded, with the contents being given to suitable U.K. research libraries, including the Bodleian Law Library which received many items of a legal nature. Many of these works date from the 19th century and relate to… Read More »
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