It is the Law Bod’s usual practice to make these weekly Bulletins available via a web page in the Finding Resources section of our main website. (This page also allows you to catch up with any Bulletins you may have missed in the previous 6 months.) This ideal is, of course, modified by the realities… Read More »
We hope that the summer 2013 BBC4 series, King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons, (presented by Michael Wood) will encourage interest in a deeper understanding of the laws and legal system of the kingdoms in England before the Normans. For in this aspect, at least, the invaded and the vanquished could feel (justifiably) superior and more… Read More »
For many years holders of an Oxford Single Sign Username and Password have got used to entering their details into this window: But a new rejuvenated face should be out from under wraps next week!
The Law Bod has just started a subscription to the New Journal of European Criminal law (NJECL in citations). This new (to the Law Bod) journal, published by Intersentia, has a particular focus on “criminal law as it is drawn up by the European Union and the Council of Europe,” as well as the law’s… Read More »
***** 1 August 2013 we have been told that this problem has been resolved: normal View Online links in SOLO should work.**** We have become aware that there is an intermittent problem affecting this database. Normally, if you are on the OU network, have a VPN installed on your own computer or (if off campus)… Read More »
If, on a visit to the Bodleian Law Library, you happen to be perusing the shelves for some particular tome, you might come across a large gap on a shelf with a slip left there in the space. It will simply say the title of the publication, the number of volumes, the shelf mark and… Read More »
Bodleian Law Librarians do get out and about … even though this expedition entailed going into a (decommissioned) reading room to see the current exhibition at the British Museum, Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Among the wonders (and horrors) on display is a rather nondescript piece of marble. It bears an inscription on… Read More »
The Bodleian Law Library, and all Faculty members interested in comparative law, are grateful to the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law for allowing law libraries across Europe free (though password protected) access to the database they maintain called EuroTort. OU students should first log into the Weblearn Password page (with their Oxford Single… Read More »
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) has, since 1866, met the challenge of providing high quality law reports of cases before the superior courts of England & Wales and the UK. Recently it has started providing its report series online via its own platform. With the generosity befitting a charitable institution, the ICLR has… Read More »
Thanks to the initial shrewdness of our founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, a requirement for English, later UK, publishers to deposit a free copy of each of their publications to certain designated Copyright Libraries has existed for over 300 years (Summary of historical background is available from another Bodleian website.) Now this fine tradition has to… Read More »
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