Thesis writing

ITS run really useful courses on using Word for theses and dissertations.
Get in early and book your time now.
Short movies of the course content are available online: ITS thesis movies.
You'll find more information about dissertations and theses in the Thesis information libguide.

Watch this space!

Dear Students
The Law Library, and Faculty of Law have developed a professional development event just for you, scheduled for mid March this year. Its focus is on legal research skills and expectations in the work place. We have some great speakers lined up, along with representatives from the 3 major legal database companies.
Stayed tuned for information as it comes to hand.

international human rights research

Here's a really nice guide to getting started with human rights research, from the Library of the European Parliament.
I have added it to the International law section of the Law Subject Guide, too.
Cheers, Carolyn

Legislation Bill Passes

The House today passed a bill to modernise and improve the law regarding publication of legislation, Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson announced.
 

The Legislation Bill is intended to modernise and improve the law regarding the publication, availability, reprinting, revision, and official versions of legislation, and bring it together into one piece of legislation.

The bill forms part of the Government’s response to recommendations made in two reports by the Law Commission, and also responds to recommendations made by the previous Regulations Review Committees on inquiries relating to incorporating material by reference, and the principles to be followed in determining whether delegated legislation is given the status of regulations...

http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/legislation-bill-passes

Community law manual

The 2012/13 version of the Community law manual is now available online.
What a beautiful, user-friendly thing it is! The more so as it is backed up by the Community Law Centre service.