By Emma Jones Okay, so of all the worries faced by a putative Father Christmas, international frontiers might not be the first that come to mind… but there’s no denying that the children’s favourite existentially-challenged Macroscopic Quantum Object has a seasonal job that tests freedom of movement to its limit. Santa, of course, is a… Read More »
Santa, Father Christmas, St Nicholas, whatever the name, the popularity of this figure from our Christmas traditions remains steadfast, but where does Santa live and how did the letter writing tradition begin? When I was a girl, I sat down to write a letter to Father Christmas every year, and then the letter would be… Read More »
The Tió de Nadal of Catalonia, unlike the bûche de Noël, is not itself edible, yet successfully provides a quick route to a sugar rush … in a rather “fundamental” way! A current version of the tradition (doubtless there are many variations) is to bring your Tió into the house early in Advent, and fondly swathe him in a warm… Read More »
The Law Bod has taken out a trial subscription to all the law titles available via CUP’s University Publishing Online. This means holders of an Oxford Single Sign On have full-text access to all law titles until 13 July 2015. At that date we shall assess how useful the package has proved to be, before… Read More »
The home page for the journal section of the platform offers a “new prominent search tool that is easy to use.” (At the far right hand end of this search box there is a link to the Advanced Search Screen should you prefer.) The results for a basic search using just “antitrust” are – as… Read More »
By Katie Carter We have just added the History of International Law collection in HeinOnline to our subscription, offering over 1,000 titles, covering subjects from the Law of the Sea to the Nuremberg trials. You’ll find it in the list of collections on the right of the screen as you open HeinOnline; click on the… Read More »
In the closing months of 2013, all varieties of media – old-style (tv, radio and newspapers) and new/social (campaigners’ website etc) – ensured that the voyage of Greenpeace’s icebreaker Arctic Sunrise and the subsequent plight of her crew, the Arctic 30, was well and truly in the public eye. Now that the drama is out… Read More »
The Law Bod has an active subscription to OSAIL: Oxford Scholarly Authorities for International Law – although this is not yet obvious if you are searching SOLO by the book or author details. The authorities which are online via OSAIL are a formidable collection: MCNAIR The Law of Treaties HIGGINS Problems and Process CASSESE The… Read More »
By Francesca Marsden I thought that I would take the opportunity, having done a lot of research for my soon-to-be-published LibGuide on the topic, to share a few interesting pieces of international legislation and highlight a significant case concerning indigenous peoples that I discovered along the way. Also, it may be a (not so subtle) attempt draw attention… Read More »
We’re sorry to disappoint the romantics among you, but in 2012, in the UK, the combination of 5 rings and gold makes us think of sport first! Unfortunately, the law often encounters the sporting world when it has fallen from the imagined Olympic ideal – disciplinary measures, racism, doping, hooliganism, gambling & match fixing etc.… Read More »
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