Category Archives: Legal news

EU news website

 EU News, a new site on Europa is intended for specialists who need to keep abreast of EU current affairs.  It aims to cover all policy areas, under 12 main headings.  It includes news and videos from the EU institutions, an EU events calendar and a searchable news archive. Posted by the European Documentation Centre

Lisbon Treaty update

The Lisbon Treaty entered into force a couple of days ago (on Tuesday 1 December 2009), and a wide variety of information is now available online, ranging from the Treaty itself, through official press releases of the EU institutions, to commentary, positive or sceptical,  from official and unofficial sources. The main documents are the Lisbon Treaty… Read More »

Fog clearing from Chancery

The National Archives (formerly the PRO) staff have made great strides in a project to make Chancery records much more accessible to legal historians, other  historians and genealogists. About 30,000 cases from class C6 (Court of Chancery, Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Collins) can be searched online via the Equity Pleadings Database. The friendly  The Search Screen means that… Read More »

Canadian cases online

60 years ago Canada took the path of complete judicial independence from the UK.  In 1931 the Statute of Westminster formally acknowledged the equality of the Canadian legislatures with that of Westminster. Two years later Canada amended the Supreme Court Act ending appeal to the Privy Council in criminal matters. In 1949, the Canadian Supreme… Read More »

Legal historians, your support is needed

The team behind the Anglo-American Legal Tradition (The O’Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center) needs support from all historians of the early modern period who use legal records in their research as they apply for another round of funding. The AALT has embraced a noble cause to “Take the archives to the people, not the people to… Read More »

Call for comments

The CLIP group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs- und Steuerrecht is asking for  comments and suggestions on its first draft of a set of principles to govern conflict of laws problems in intellectual property.  Once it has gathered informed feedback, a  second preliminary draft is scheduled for October 2009,  and a final version of the principles (with comments) for 2010.