The United Nations Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs launched the Audiovisual Library of International Law one year ago today. "The United Nations Audiovisual Library is a unique, multimedia resource which provides the United Nations with the unprecedented capacity to provide high quality international law training and research materials to an unlimited number […]
Electronic Resources
SSRN Developing New Search Interface
The folks at SSRN have announced that they are working on a new search interface for their collection of research papers. This new eLibrary Viewer will, "... reduce a researcher’s time reviewing articles." "The eLibrary Viewer places search results in the left hand column of the page. Each result displays hyper-linked title and authors, and […]
Two New Constitutional Electronic Resources Available
There are two new electronic resources available providing access to the constitutions of the countries of the world and the constitutions of dependencies and territories: Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online This database provides access to 188 country constitutions with expert commentary from leading scholars worldwide. It includes English translations and the ability to […]
Law Yearbook of China
The Law Yearbook of China (English version) is now included among the materials available on the LawInfoChina service. Currently, the volumes for the years 2002, 2003-2004 and 2006 are available. The Law Yearbook of China is a large, comprehensive and requisite text for students of Chinese law for basic information about the socialist legal system […]
Justice Laws Website Now Official
The Consolidated Federal Statutes and Regulations on the Justice Laws Website are now official and are admissible as evidence in court. This is the result of the coming into force on that date of amendments made to the Statute Revision Act, which has been renamed the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act. To see the relevant […]
New eResource: HeinOnline World Trials Library
The World Trials Library is now available as part of the law library's electronic resource collection. This HeinOnline collection contains trial transcripts and other critical court documents and includes trial-related resources that analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials. For example, John Lawson's "American State Trials," "Howell's State Trials," "Law Reports of Trials of […]
New eResource: vLex Global
We now have access to vLex Global, an online legal research service based in Barcelona, Spain. vLex offers case law, legislation, and other legal materials for nearly 98 countries, with a particular focus on jurisdictions in Latin America and Europe. The contents of vLex can be searched by keyword, or browsed by country. Information is […]
Two New eResources from Oxford University Press Now Available
The library has just acquired two new online resources from Oxford University Press: the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History and the collection of law books published by OUP available on Oxford Scholarship Online. The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, edited by Stanley N. Katz, is the first encyclopedia of law to provide both […]
New electronic resource: ChinaLawInfo
The ChinaLawInfo databases are now available. There are 4 databases available 1 in English and 3 in Chinese. Laws & regulations database (English) Laws & regulations database (Chinese) Law journals database (Chinese) Case law database (Chinese) Here's some information from their about page: "Lawinfochina.com strives to give you access to English-language versions of all the […]