The American Bar Association now has a Free Full-text Online Law Review/Law Journal Search Engine.
This will be good news if you don't have access to user-pays indexes like LegalTrac or LINX, especially if it's American material you're after - in which case, you'd also want to search Google Scholar Legal Opinions and Journals.
The WORLDLII Law Journals Project is doing similar things, and includes, amongst others, the Otago Law Review.
These are great - a free way to find free full-text articles.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Wikipedia in court
Here's a link to the Law Librarian blog link to an article on citing Wikipedia in court. Interesting, but would you trust an article that you found via a blog via blog? Would you cite it in an assignment, or in court?
Monday, November 30, 2009
The 21st century Law Student
First we gave you The 21st century Law Library, now we give you the student!
The twenty-first century law student by Alison Bone, "...considers the responses to a survey conducted across seven “new” and two “old” universities which was designed to elicit students' views of their experiences of learning on UK undergraduate law degrees... and indicates how the modern law student approaches the study of law and, more importantly, how law teachers can support their learning. "
Lectures and seminars were highly regarded by students as a way to understand law, with the need to buy and use textbooks also rated highly.
The controversial question as to whether the student felt that textbooks gave them enough information so as not to consult primary resources is very interesting (read alarming). The group was split almost evenly in agreeeing or disagreeing - with little difference across years, so even half the 5th year students agreed that textbooks gave an adequate insight into cases.
I'll let you discover the rest for yourself!
The twenty-first century law student by Alison Bone, "...considers the responses to a survey conducted across seven “new” and two “old” universities which was designed to elicit students' views of their experiences of learning on UK undergraduate law degrees... and indicates how the modern law student approaches the study of law and, more importantly, how law teachers can support their learning. "
Lectures and seminars were highly regarded by students as a way to understand law, with the need to buy and use textbooks also rated highly.
The controversial question as to whether the student felt that textbooks gave them enough information so as not to consult primary resources is very interesting (read alarming). The group was split almost evenly in agreeeing or disagreeing - with little difference across years, so even half the 5th year students agreed that textbooks gave an adequate insight into cases.
I'll let you discover the rest for yourself!
Friday, November 27, 2009
The Doyle story
In which Doyle steals, is caught, is shipped from the Bay of Islands to Sydney for trial (along with witnesses), and is hanged. We find him briefly mentioned in Foden's New Zealand legal history, and find him again in AUSTLII in the Superior Courts of New South Wales (pre-1900) Case Notes.
The Doyle case is an interesting bit of social history - both for the facts and for how the Sydney Herald presents them.
The Case Notes database is pretty cool.
AUSTLII is amazing.
The Doyle case is an interesting bit of social history - both for the facts and for how the Sydney Herald presents them.
The Case Notes database is pretty cool.
AUSTLII is amazing.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand
Just in:
"The University of Auckland Library is pleased to make Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand (LCANZ) available at no charge from its website.
LCANZ provides easy to follow citation formats and examples which complement the newly released New Zealand Law Style Guide.
LCANZ is the first online index to New Zealand legal citation and is likely to be a valuable tool for law academics and students as well as the legal profession. LCANZ provides guidance on the citation of all major New Zealand legal journals and law reporting series. More than 120 law journals and law reporting series are searchable by either title or abbreviation.
Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand (LCANZ) is a service developed by the Davis Law Library team at the University of Auckland Library and is freely available at http://www.lcanz.auckland.ac.nz "
We're still waiting for the New Zealand law style guide itself, though you can pre-order a copy if you want:
https://www.thomsonreuters.co.nz/catalogue/new-zealand-law-style-guide-2009
"The University of Auckland Library is pleased to make Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand (LCANZ) available at no charge from its website.
LCANZ provides easy to follow citation formats and examples which complement the newly released New Zealand Law Style Guide.
LCANZ is the first online index to New Zealand legal citation and is likely to be a valuable tool for law academics and students as well as the legal profession. LCANZ provides guidance on the citation of all major New Zealand legal journals and law reporting series. More than 120 law journals and law reporting series are searchable by either title or abbreviation.
Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand (LCANZ) is a service developed by the Davis Law Library team at the University of Auckland Library and is freely available at http://www.lcanz.auckland.ac.nz "
We're still waiting for the New Zealand law style guide itself, though you can pre-order a copy if you want:
https://www.thomsonreuters.co.nz/catalogue/new-zealand-law-style-guide-2009
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