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Question for people that make heavy use of case law (reported and unreported): are there any components in the judgment(s) that could be highlighted or extracted to help improve/speed up your understanding of the case?23 Jun 2019 -
The awesome @RestlessMafalda presenting to the National Judicial Academy of Nepal on Gender & Constitutionalism: Nepal in a Comparative Perspective. Had to decamp to marquee as too many attendees for their biggest room! #Nepal #DesigntheLawNepal #SupremeCourt @CityLawSchool
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Dr Mara Malagodi@RestlessMafalda
Watch out #Nepal — Emily @lawbore and I heading out of London as we speak. Kathmandu here we come! #DesignTheLawNepal ✈️ @CityLawSchool
12 Jun 2019
More tweets on Emily's twitter page.
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Has a member of staff at City made a big impact on you? Vote in the Academic Impact Awards!
The Academic Impact Awards are your chance to reward the members of staff and students that have helped shape your University academic experience, through their teaching, support, innovation and through representation. Categories as follows:
Experience
- Most helpful feedback
- Enhancing student employability
- Leading in equality
Support
- Personal tutor of the year
- Research supervisor of the year
- Outstanding support - Academic staff
- Outstanding support - Professional staff
Teaching
- Best Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Most innovative teaching
- Teaching excellence award
Also one for the Programme Representative of the Year!
Go and place your vote now - you have until Monday 8th April.
Finding things tough and need a listening ear?
Life as a law student can be tough at times…..
If you are finding things difficult and would like to talk to someone, your Student Welfare Officer, Su Cassidy will be available in A221 (College Building second floor, near spiral staircase) at the following times:
Tuesdays 1.00-3.00 pm
Wednesdays 2.00-4.00 pm
Fridays 10.00 am-12.00
You can book an appointment with Su at another time or at Gray’s Inn Place by emailing cls.support@city.ac.uk
Accessing the FT online
Those of you wanting to improve your commercial awareness will know that the Financial Times is a useful tool for this.
Those of you who already have an account with ft.com will now need to re-register.
If you're new to City and would like to register for an ft.com account, please follow the info provided via the library website.
Need to use another library to find materials?
Read all about the Sconul Access scheme via the City Library Services website.
Useful Links
- Top up your print/copy account
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- Access your City email
- Problems accessing an e-resource?
- Timetabling
- Library Catalogue
- Need to visit other university libraries?
- StudyWell
- Get hooked up to the wireless network
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- Accessing other UoL libraries
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Upcoming Law Events
24th June 2019
A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and The Law
Venue: A110 College Building, City, University of London St John Street London EC1V 4PB
What is the relationship between street art and the law? In his latest book A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law, Andrea Baldini argues that street art has a constitutive relationship with the law. A crucial aspect of the identity of this urban art kind depends on its capacity to turn upside down dominant uses of public spaces. Street artists subvert those laws and social norms that regulate the city. It is shown that street art has not only transformed public spaces and their functions into artistic material, but has also turned its rebellious attitude toward the law into a creative resource.
The book aims at elucidating and arguing for this claim, while drawing important implications at the level of street art’s metaphysics, value, and relationship with rights of intellectual property, in particular copyright and moral rights. At the other end of the spectrum of contractual art, street art is outlaw art.
Professor Andrea Baldini will present his latest book APhilosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law, with Dr Susan Hansen (Middlesex University), Dr Sabina Andron (University College London), Dr Rafael Schacter (University College London) and Dr Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London) discussing the arguments developed in the book.
2nd July 2019
The YTL Law and Justice Forum: Technology and Manipulation
Venue: BH Lecture Theatre 2 & BH (S) 4.03, Bush House, King's College London 30 Aldwych Strand London WC2B 4BG
The YTL Centre usually holds three 'Law and Justice' forums per year. These are one day events that discuss major questions of the day by bringing to bear inter-disciplinary perspectives from politics, philosophy and law.
The aim of the Forum on 'Technology and Manipulation' is to explore how recent technologies can be used (and have been used) to influence our behaviour in ways that bypass our capacity to deliberate as autonomous agents. This is the case both in relation to exercises of individual autonomous agency (for example, when particular software tracks our behaviour and directs us to make certain purchases or adopt a certain lifestyle) and in relation to exercises of collective agency (a recent example is the Russian interference in a number of elections via the use of bots and fake social media accounts). To explore this issue, this forum will bring together legal and political philosophers as well as experts in computer science and communication.
Please note that attendance for the entire event is not compulsory, but you must register in advance.
3rd July 2019
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure
Venue: Room 2X112, Bristol Business School (X Block), Frenchay Campus
Join us for a one-day conference at UWE Bristol Law School on the topic “The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?” This event is sponsored by the annual Socio-Legal Scholars Association's Annual Seminar Series and the Centre for Applied Legal Research (CALR). Organised by Ed Johnston from our Criminal Justice Research Unit.
The confirmed speakers for the conference are:
Anthony Edwards is a criminal defence solicitor who specialises in corruption, fraud and major crime. He is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on Police Station law and he has published widely in the areas of criminal procedure.
Anthony will be speaking on the topic 'Contemporary issues with disclosure in the police station'.
Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah is an Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. Her research interests focus on criminal procedure and fair trial rights. Her recent book, Defendant Participation in the Criminal Process, examines how the disclosure provisions of the CrimPR compel the defendant to actively participate in their own criminal trial. The book examines how the adversarial criminal process can be effected by essentially non-adversarial provisions.
Abeena will be speaking on the topic 'Reconsidering defence disclosure'.
Dr Hannah Quirk is a reader in Criminal Law at Kings College London. Her research interests centre around wrongful convictions and sentences. She has published extensively on the erosion of the Right to Silence and wrongful convictions.
Hannah will be speaking on the topic 'Uncovering disclosure errors: Appeals and the CCRC'.
3rd July 2019
Regional Approaches to International law
Venue: A227 College Building City, University of London St John Street London EC1V 4PB
How do we understand the effect that regional approaches are having in the international legal landscape? This panel, comprising of experts on Russian and Chinese approaches to international law, will discuss these and other cross-cutting issues.
Find out more about speakers and book via City Events.
16th July 2019
How global is cyber law regulation?
Venue: AG01 College Building City, University of London St John Street London EC1V 4PB
This seminar considers the global dimension to cyber law-making and how we should understand the emerging convergences and fragmentations between systems and practices emerging.
Find out more about speakers and book via City Events.
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i-law
i-law is THE database for those interested in maritime and commercial law. At City we subscribe to the Maritime and Insurance & Reinsurance modules.
Prime resources include Lloyds Law Reports and the Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
This database requires an individual username and password - ask your library for this.
LexisLibrary
Lexis is an immense database with access to cases, legislation and journal articles. Practitioner texts are also available, including Blackstones Criminal Practice, Lester & Pannick: Human Rights Law and Practice, Paget's Law of Banking, Whish: Competition Law amongst 149 others.
You can also access really monster Lexis publications - Halsbury's Laws (the legal encyclopedia) and Halsbury's Statutes amongst them.
Law report-wise you can find many key series in LNB: All England Law Reports (All ER), The Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc), Times Law Reports (TLR) amongst others.
Access using your IT username and password.
- Connect to the database
- Essential user guide (perfect for a quick overview)
- Full user guide
- Connectors guide
- Add something to your CV - complete the online Research Certification
Need extra help? Kristina Voronenko is your LexisNexis Student Associate and can provide online research support to students and staff.
Westlaw
Westlaw is a huge database containing cases, legislation and journal articles. Searching for cases within Westlaw is a joy, particularly thanks to the Case Analysis function. This cool tool almost does your research for you, listing lots of extra stuff about a case; its history, where its been cited subsequently and, best of all, all the journal articles which talk about your case.
Law report series included in Westlaw include the Weekly Law Reports (WLR), The Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc), Fleet Street Reports (FSR), Common Market Law Reports (CMLR) and Housing Law Reports amongst others.
The journal collection is admirable; including the Conveyancer (Conv), Criminal Law Review (Crim L.R.), European Law Review (E.L.Rev), Law Quarterly Review (LQR), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (OJLS) and Public Law (P.L.) as well as loads more...
- Connect to database
- Watch videos on using Westlaw
- Getting started with Westlaw
- Get Westlaw certification
- Technical/searching difficulties? Phone Westlaw free on 0800 028 2200 or fill in the online query form.
HeinOnline
HeinOnline is an American database which offers access to a huge number of journals. Unlike Lexis or Westlaw it generally offers full coverage of journal titles, ie. from volume 1, issue 1.
It offers a wide selection of American Journals with extensive coverage, eg. Harvard Law Review (1887-), Yale Law Journal (1891-).
Its collection of English journals is growing and key ones to remember are as follows: Cambridge Law Journal (1921-), Industrial Law Journal (1972-1997), International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1952-), Law Quarterly Review (1885-), Legal Studies (1981-)
Access using your IT username and password.
There's a Hein App now too - http://home.heinonline.org/heinonline-app/
All databases require a City Law School student account for access. If you have trouble using a database, please email the Law Library or use the helpdesk form.
Databases
Database carousel
The most popular legal subscription databases are accessible using the quick-link buttons. The rest of the databases can be browsed with the databases carousel below.
This service hosts the Family Court Reports, Duckworth's Matrimonial Property & Finance and Hershman and McFarlane: Children Law & Practice.
This excellent service provides online access to recordings from radio and TV - has the whole Radio 4 Law in Action series. Like BBC iPlayer but there's no expiry date for programmes.
Login and then search for City as the institution to enable your personalised login.
Chatham House Online Archive contains the research, publications, speeches and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the world-leading independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920.
Ideal for those of you interested in International Law (it
contains the British Yearbook of International Law), the UN or
International Security, War and Conflict.
Massive reference tool - dictionaries, encyclopedias...
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) now includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
Human Rights Studies Online is a research & learning database providing comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide.
It provides primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than 30 additional subjects.
Includes Lloyds Law Reports (Insurance & Reinsurance and Professional Negligence), as well as many key practitioner texts, practice notes and the relevant legislation.
This service from Jordan Publishing includes Gore-Browne on Companies.
This service from Jordans comprises the journal Family Law, the Family Law Reports and Hershman & MacFarlane on Children.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. It offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
JustCite is a legal search engine and citator service that cross-references case law, legislation and journal articles.
JustCite indexes content from all major online legal publishers and links you to content to which we subscribe.
Developed and maintained by Kluwer in conjunction with theICCA and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Kluwer Arbitration contains expert commentary and a large collection of primary sources, including ICC Cases and Awards. Key books include: Blackaby: Redfern & Hunter, Born: INternational Commercial Arbitration and the Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration. Journals are fab - Arbitration International and the Journal of International Arbitration.
Get access to cases, as well as PI essentials like Kemp & Kemp.
Linex Legal is a commercial current awareness service. It presents material provided by major law firms and government institutions. In addition to its website, it provides a weekly email alerter with links to the latest articles published in subscribers' chosen practice areas. city Law School students should register using their City University email addresses to qualify for free access.
The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. Written and edited by a team of over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and updated throughout the year.
Keep up to date with cases, legislation and regulatory material affecting the print and broadcast media. Excellent resource for media lawyers, journalists, editors and reporters.
Search news via area of law or reverse chronologically.
Access via a specialist username/password (available on request from the Law Library). Bear in mind only one person can use it at a time.
News-tastic! Includes over 12,000 news sources, newspapers, newsletters, magazines and trade journals including over 450 International publications, with over 250 newswires updated continuously, many within minutes of publication.
These 4 modules provide access to a total of 90 eBooks in the following subject areas:
- International Commercial Law
- International Commercial Arbitration
- Finance and Banking Law
- Private International Law
This resource brings together decisions on public international law from a range of courts; from international to domestic. As well as the decisions themselves you also get access to detailed commentary and analysis.
There are 5 modules: International Law in Domestic Courts, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Investment Claims and International Courts of General Jurisdiction.
This part of the Oxford International Law collection gives access to 70 OUP titles from key authors in International Law - Brownlie, Higgins and Crawford. Contains Simma's Charter of the UN and Oppenheim too. Alerts available to be notified when content changes.
Huge collection of e-books from OUP. Check out the latest list of titles available.
Electronic Journals, Reports and Texts
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All the e-journals, reports and texts available to City Law School students are collected on our separate E-texts Library where they are freely searchable and sortable according to many different categories and keywords.
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