If you are an avid user of Westlaw International you may have noticed that since Friday there is another link when you click on Services titled ‘International Materials‘. It’s not a separate service but a new Westlaw platform for its international materials which is part of their WestlawNext platform. This post will have a… Read More »
A very warm welcome to all new and returning students! Last year we were celebrating our 50th birthday – this year we are having some renovation work done. To keep our readers fully informed we have a web page called refurbishment which deals outlines the expected time scale of the works, while we are using… Read More »
Librarians Ruth Bird (@oxfordbirds) and Margaret Watson (@MargaretLawBod) have recently published blogs on issues that may be of interest to our readers. Ruth wrote about the value of libraries in the Canadian forum, slaw.ca, with this introduction: “I am using the column this time to explain my anxiety that society risks losing too much as the… Read More »
Whether you are feeling cut off and isolated from the familiar, or just starting off with US law as a foreigner and wondering what the buzz is over there, then a site such as casetext.com may be just what you are looking for! Casetext came out of Beta in autumn 2014 – and already claims… Read More »
Mistletoe seems an unlikely candidate for falling foul of the law but it has happened. I’m not going to venture into office parties as that has already been covered earlier in the blog. The recognised way for harvesting mistletoe in the rural areas in America, most commonly, seems to be with a shotgun. There are… Read More »
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 »
What’s more traditional than the sound of dodgy Christmas tunes, the clink of glasses and the whirr of a photocopier. Yes it’s the Christmas office party. A time when colleagues come together to pull a cracker, have a glass of wine and reflect on the year gone by. A time for the company to thank… Read More »
Christmas is generally considered to be a time for families to be together. A lot of Christmas traditions focus on children, particularly when it comes to receiving gifts. In Thailand this tradition is reversed, as children have to give gifts to their elders instead, which some parents in the UK might appreciate! It is also… Read More »
What is black and white and noisy? A Zebra with a drum kit If you are celebrating Christmas with a Christmas dinner then you may well be listening to more of the same (often very bad) jokes courtesy of the traditional Christmas cracker. So where did this desire to fight with your neighbour at the… Read More »
With the Globe Theatre Company returning to the Bodleian Quad this week, I felt a combination of great writer and great location ought to inspire a little blogging. This year’s performance is King Lear, in which an aging king decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters and retire early. A quick look around… Read More »
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