At the Law Bod, we are used to that look of concentrated abstraction as our readers digest what they have read and then distil all that wisdom – spiked with their own original thought – onto their page or laptop! But when it comes to the birds, it is the sight and sound of Canada… Read More »
Humming the well-known French nursery rhyme Quand trois poules vont aux champs could help OU students studying French law remember that they have 3 subscription databases at their disposal! In this context it is Juris Classeur qui va devant! This a general database – with legislation & codes, case law, online journals and the very… Read More »
Welcome to the second day of our 12 (Legal) Days of Christmas In the US case of Aiuppa v. United States, 10 Cir., 338 F.2d 146 it was not 2 turtle doves but 560 frozen turtle (or mourning) doves. The case was brought in the Federal Court by Aiuppa who was appealing on the basis… Read More »
Although US primary sources are available via both our Westlaw and LexisLibrary subscriptions I think I am not alone in finding it a bit of a bother having to navigate my way to, and then through them successfully. Some of my attitude is undoubtedly a combination of laziness and lack of practice: one day I… Read More »
The LawBod has strengthened its online African resources – as well as renewing subscriptions we have added a Nigerian database. What’s new? A database called Electronic Law Companion from the Nigerian legal publisher Funmi Quadri & Co. Current OU students and faculty wishing to use it will have to pick up a special username and… Read More »
Well – new for the Bodleian and a trove at least for those lawyers with an historical bent! Law Library Microfilm Consortium – digital (as of August 2012) makes available online 5,554 titles (112,372 volumes!). The focus is on law or legal-related titles – so it may well be of use to social scientists more… Read More »
New York Convention 1958.org Thanks to Shearman & Sterling, UNCITRAL and Columbia Law School there is new freely accessible database online with domestic court cases considering the application and interpretation of the New York Convention. Jurisdictions represented among the current decisions (always in the original language, sometimes with an English translation) include: Africa – OHADA… Read More »
The new OU subscription to journals on CAIRN.INFO includes Revues en Droit The 9 law titles are: Archives de politique criminelle, Droit et société, Nouveaux Cahiers du Conseil constitutionnel, Plein droit, Pouvoirs, Revue francaise de droit constitutionnel Revue internationale de droit économique Revue internationale de droit pénal Clearly they are linked by place and language… Read More »
IFLP is moving home! From now, and for the foreseeable future, IFLP will be available to OU members via HeinOnline. For the moment IFLP will remain available on the Ovid/Wolters Kluwer Health platform but not for much longer. So our advice is to get used to going to HeinOnline now. Certainly the search screen looks… Read More »
The International Commission of Jurists have published what they say is “the first book of its kind” called Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Justice: A Comparative Law Casebook. Three cheers to them especially as it is freely available as a pdf for anyone with internet access! (It comes as a pdf of over 400 pages… Read More »
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