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Westlaw Law Student website

Writing about web page http://uklawstudent.thomsonreuters.com/?utm_campaign=LAWSTUDENT2&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Librarians&utm_content=AccountUpdate

Westlaw have launched a special website for students, with lots of useful information - it's just called "Law Student" and it is quite similar to Lexis Law Campus. You can access it via the URL above, or Google it! Please do have a look and pass on any feedback to the Westlaw Student representative, Andy McNally, A.M.McNally@Warwick.ac.uk It's a free website, good for current awareness, including:

• Features from leading legal authors

• News and legal market round-ups

• Career guides, podcasts, prizes & more

Helen Riley : 30 Oct 2012 16:13 |  Tags: Databases; Law; Westlaw |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Printing or downloading Lexis articles

If you have any difficulty in printing, downloading or e-mailing material from Lexis Library, it may be due to pop-ups being blocked by your computer. Look out for a message about this on the screen - it is easy to ask for pop-ups to be permitted permanently on this website, and after that there should be no further problem.

Please also be aware that Lexis limits the number of items which may be downloaded from one search to 10. Other databases may also be monitored by the companies providing them, so for example it is not allowed to download one or more e-books in entirety on the same day! Normal downloading is fine, and it is rare for problems to be reported to us, but in extreme cases a company can cut us off without warning and tell us to investigate any possible abuse of copyright :-( You will find information about what is allowed under copyright law in the Library near any photocopier.

Helen Riley : 06 Jul 2012 10:42 |  Tags: Databases; Law; Lexis |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Index of Legal Terms in Westlaw

Westlaw now includes an Index of Legal Terms - it looks very useful! This option appears on the Westlaw home screen when you log in. You can search for a definition of a legal term in online law dictionaries including Jowitt, Stroud and Osborn, and also in UK legislation, case law and journals.

Helen Riley : 05 Apr 2012 11:10 |  Tags: Databases; Law; Westlaw |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Westlaw student website

Writing about web page http://uklawstudent.thomsonreuters.com/

Westlaw are developing a website called Law Student - something similar to Law Campus, the Lexis student website. This is separate from the database - it includes current awarenesss, an online magazine, podcasts on legal topics, database guides and help with gaining a Westlaw certificate. More is planned for the near future, so if you have not seen it yet, have a look and see what you think!

Helen Riley : 30 Mar 2012 17:40 |  Tags: Database Law; Westlaw; |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Family law

If you are looking for articles in the journal called Family Law, we have it in printed format only, on Floor 5. There is currently a catalogue record for an electronic version within Lexis, but unfortunately Lexis no longer provides this title. I have asked for that record to be removed to avoid confusion!

Helen Riley : 14 Dec 2011 17:10 |  Tags: Journals Law; |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is now provided as part of HeinOnline - it used to be a separate database. It is useful especially for research in comparative law. You can access it via the Library catalogue, selecting Databases, then I and finally Connect. Each record includes the option to search a database called WorldCat (World Catalog), which can tell you whether we have the journal in question, or whether it is available elsewhere in the UK or further afield.

If we do not take a particular journal referred to, you may be able to use the SCONUL Access scheme to visit another Library which does have a subscription. It is also possible to request an article through Document Supply, although for undergraduate students there is normally a charge for that service.

Both the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals and WorldCat are well worth a look, if you have not used them before! WorldCat is a good way to track down books on any topic, if we do not have them here.

Helen Riley : 13 Dec 2011 11:24 |  Tags: Databases Law; |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Mooting materials – the Jessup Compendium online

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/main/tealea/socsciall/lawofficialpublications/law/key/

The Library has added the Jessup Compendium to its HeinOnline subscription -  this includes the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Compendium, plus a few extra law journals. I hope this proves useful for students taking part in moots - recommended by Gary Watt!  When you log on to HeinOnline, you can select this material from the list on the left. The database also includes The English Reports, classic US legal texts, and a lot of law journals.

Helen Riley : 20 Oct 2010 18:12 |  Tags: Databases; Law; Mooting |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Foreign Law Guide – FLAG

Writing about web page http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/flag/flag.htm

Here's a useful online guide to UK printed collections of the law of other jurisdictions, the Foreign Law Guide or FLAG for short! It is available on the website of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and is strongly recommended if you need to check which libraries to use for research. Partners in the project are the Squire Law Library, Cambridge; the Bodleian Law Library in Oxford; the British Library; and the School of Oriental and African Studies Library, University of London.

FLAG is from the same stable as FLARE, (Foreign Law Research) - see the earlier blog entry about the FLARE Index to Treaties.

Helen Riley : 06 Jan 2010 17:41 |  Tags: Collections Foreign Jurisdictions; Law Law; Other |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Halsbury's Laws – online law encyclopedia

An excellent way to start reserch on any English law topic is to use Halsbury's Laws. This is an authoritative encyclopedia available to us on Lexis Library - you will find a link to it on their Home page in the section on the right, "My Bookshelf". Halsbury's Laws will explain any English legal topic, with links to related legislation and case law, so it is a good way to locate primary sources. If any of the Lexis links fail, you should either use Westlaw to find an online document, or the Library catalogue to locate a printed law report series. If you would like any assistance, please contact Helen Riley, helen.riley@warwick.ac.uk

Helen Riley : 11 Nov 2009 14:42 |  Tags: Databases; Encyclopedias; Halsburys Laws; Law; Legal Research; Lexis |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem