Law
Discover the best information, whether you’re a new Law student starting your first assignment, or delving into a research project.
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Reading Lists
These are set up by your tutors to guide you to good quality, relevant and useful materials to help you with your studies. They are a great starting point before doing your own research.
Library Search
Key databases for law students
Databases are searchable collections of good quality, academic material, particularly journal articles. They can be small subject specific or large collections covering a wide range of subject areas. Most databases provide access to full-text items.
| Full text of about 200 law textbooks published by OUP, also includes self-test and revision materials. | |
| Full text legislation, cases, legal journals and books, law reports from both the UK and other jurisdictions. | |
| Full-text access to case law, legislation journal articles and key sources such as Halsbury's Laws of England and the All England Law Reports. It also includes newspaper articles from UK regional and national newspapers. | |
| vLex Justis (formerly JustisOne) is an online legal research tool that allows you to find the key current legal case law, legislation, and news articles for your topic. | |
| Provides access to practice notes, current awareness, and standard documents to help you draft your own legal documents. | |
| A collection of legal journals, primarily US-focused, but also encompassing international law and other jurisdictions. | |
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Print books
You can borrow print books from the library. Below is a map of where to find business-related print books
| Classmark | Subject Area |
| 340s | Law |
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