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We hope you are enjoying your summer for those who have taken a break from Oxford until the next academic year.
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For those of you that are still here working, a reminder that during the hotter weather, you may find cooler spots on the lower floors.  Just ask staff to point you in the right

By Lara Hatwell
The relationship between Northern Ireland and Europe has dominated the headlines since the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement was signed in 2020. This has largely been a result of the Democratic Unionist Party, the (then) largest party’s opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol, and its subsequent refusal to elect a speaker, leaving the Stormont

By Wanne Mendonck and Katharine Matthews

 
If you have visited the Law Library over the last week you may have come across our new display Letters of the Law, which will introduce you to the wide range of material we have in the Law Library collection; after all, and as this display will hopefully

A Christmas tree in the Bodleian Law LibraryChristmas tree at the Law Bod

 
Michaelmas Term has just flown by  and so to our readers who are heading away from Oxford this week, have a great Christmas break.  For those of you who are staying in Oxford, we are open until 5pm on the 22nd December, although our opening hours will be

The Bodleian Law Library is participating in this year’s Oxford “Open Doors” weekend on Friday and Saturday, 8-9 September 2023.  (The Open Doors events continue on Sunday, though the Law Library is not participating on that day.)  The purpose of the weekend is to enable a wider public to see interesting and important buildings, including

By Ronald Richenburg
As the first coronation in over 70 years draws near, thoughts of history, tradition, ceremony, national pride, and contract law will fill many minds (the last of these perhaps to a slightly lesser degree than the others!).  At least since 2003, the various paperback editions of Treitel on Contract have used interesting paintings

After many years with the same ‘look’, Lexis Library has updated its interface to a new and more streamlined version – Lexis+ UK.   From Wednesday 14th September, when you go onto Lexis, this new platform will be ‘live’ and the old version will no longer be available.
Like with most new platforms,  the best way

By Ronald Richenburg
Today, Saturday, 11 December 2021, is an important anniversary that no longer receives the commemoration that it deserves, being the 90th anniversary of the Statute of Westminster 1931. [1]  This was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament in which, most importantly, it was explicitly stated that no future act would

Do you want to keep up to date on your subject?  This blog post will go through some of the current awareness tools, sources and methods you can use to save you time in keeping abreast of recent developments in your area of law.
We will be looking at delivery methods, table of contents services, databases

Do you want to keep up to date on your subject?  This blog post will go through some of the current awareness tools, sources and methods you can use to save you time in keeping abreast of recent developments in your area of law.
We will be looking at delivery methods, table of contents services, databases