Oxford Open Doors, 8-10 September 2023

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 »

New Lexis Platform

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 »

Welcome to Oxford

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 »

Christmas databases

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 »

An Artefact of the Age of Slavery

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 »