1968 may have been the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but the year’s events had given scant scope for celebration: the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the end of the Prague Spring, assassinations in the US (Martin Luther King Jr in April, Robert F Kennedy in June), anti-terrorism… Read More »
HeinOnline has now made available a database called Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, & Law & holders of an Oxford Single Sign On will now see it listed as part of our general HeinOnline subscription. But it also accessible to anyone separately: after registration and voluntary donation: more details here. The publisher’s… Read More »
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” Henry VI Part 2 Act 4 Scene 2 Can the Law Bod join in the Bodleian’s celebrations of the birthday of the author of such a phrase? Perhaps we should rather be gleefully chuckling over a possible interpretation of the title of the accompanying exhibition Shakespeare’s… Read More »
The Law Bod has now got a subscription to a new (for us!) database: EuroCases. Please note that it requires a special username and password (not the usual Oxford SSO). To find out what the magic sesame is just log in (with your aforementioned Oxford SSO) to the special Weblearn site Please remember your basic… 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 »
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 »
A route to even more US federal and state law. Thanks to an agreement between HeinOnline and Fastcase, incidentally a US law database for which the Law Bod has an existing, separate subscription. “The federal case coverage includes the judicial opinions of the Supreme Court (1754-present), Federal Circuits (1924-present), Board of Tax Appeals (vols. 1-47),… Read More »
So starts a distinctively New Zealand adaptation of a true love’s Christmas gifts. The link will take you through to the words – the tune will be easy to work out. (This version was first published by Kingi M. Ihaka in a book of the same name in 1981.) (Image thanks to Sid Mosell who… Read More »
Last year, Law Bod staff discovered, uncovered -and invented- all manner of legal connections to the verses of a single carol. This year we have decided to open up the entire canon of traditional Christmas hymns & songs, looking at individual carols through our special legal spectacles … This post is taking us back to… 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 »
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