Start with ilaw but you may also want to consider other resources listed below:
Use our extensive maritime law electronic books collection on the Library Catalogue
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Global shipping resource incorporating access to market data and directories.
To Log in, you are required to create an account in SOL. You must log in to Solent Online Learning and enrol on the passwords page.
Try a journals search on Westlaw. This has a useful Legal Journals Index where you can find the details for articles many journals (and those included in i-law).
Access a wide range of legal materials including UK cases and updated legislation, legal journals, books and dictionaries.
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You may find further articles in Lexis+ UK, HeinOnline the Law Journal Library or ScienceDirect:
Find legal journal articles from a wide range of international publications.
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Access UK cases, legislation and legal journals as well as national and regional newspapers and legal materials from countries across the world. Includes both Lexis PSL with practical guidance written by solicitors and barristers on legal topics as well as forms, checklists and precedents, and content from Lexis Accountancy Lite including Tolley's Tax Handbooks Series, the Yellow and Orange Tax Guides, Simon's Taxes, Tax Journal, and the Finance Acts.
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Access subscribed full text journals for subjects including computer science, engineering and technology, psychology, business, biomedical science and social science. Also includes full text access to the Referex collection of ebooks in engineering. Please note that book chapters in other subject areas may not be available in full text.
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International Court of Justice
The principal judicial organ of the United Nations - sits at the Hague and deals with legal disputes between sites. Website includes lists of pending and contentious cases, documents, official judgments, advisory opinions and orders
Oceans and Law of the Sea (United Nations)
Information and text of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) along with useful general links
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
Includes conventions, documents, news, an extensive directory of weblinks and more..
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Access fulltext judgments and related documents for cases brought under UNCLOS
You can find the most authoritative practitioner texts online via Westlaw:
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Contains a huge amount of information relating to patents (including an international applications search), trademarks, industrial designs and copyright along with WIPO Treaties and WIPO Lex (a search for national members' IP laws and treaties)
UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
Wide range of information on patent, design and copyright issues including Designs and Trademark searches, esp@cenet (a free patent search for all UK applications along with some European and International applications) and much more...
On Westlaw, use the Journals tab to look for specific articles.
Entering the name of a country as a Subject/Keyword will produce fewer and more relevant results.
Some articles will be available in fulltext, others will be abstracts only - check the Library Catalogue to see if there is an alternative fulltext version available elsewhere.
Westlaw International Materials is available under the Services tab - here you can access international and US materials including over 200 US journals covering comparative topics.
Access a wide range of legal materials including UK cases and updated legislation, legal journals, books and dictionaries.
To Log in, enter your university email address and password. Users must enter their details the first time they use Westlaw after logging in. This creates a separate Westlaw account so you can use the personalisation features of the site.
On Lexis+ UK, use the Journals tab and select Journals from the left to search just fulltext articles.
Use the Journals Index to find more results, but some will be abstracts only - check the Library Catalogue to see if there is an alternative fulltext version available elsewhere.
Use International Journals for further comparative articles.
Locate foreign materials using the Sources tab - use Browse Sources, select a country and a category. Tick the required sources and then OK-Continue to search.
Access UK cases, legislation and legal journals as well as national and regional newspapers and legal materials from countries across the world. Includes both Lexis PSL with practical guidance written by solicitors and barristers on legal topics as well as forms, checklists and precedents, and content from Lexis Accountancy Lite including Tolley's Tax Handbooks Series, the Yellow and Orange Tax Guides, Simon's Taxes, Tax Journal, and the Finance Acts.
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For more articles, try the Law Journal Library:
Find legal journal articles from a wide range of international publications.
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WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) - access to international decisions and treaties along with country-specific legal materials
Lawlinks - extensive listings of special legal topics and world wide jurisdictions produced by the librarian at the University of Kent
HG.org - International gateway service to world governmental information and legal internet sites
CommonLII (Commonwealth Legal Information Insitute) - access to court decisions and legislation from 59 Commonwealth and common law countries including Australia, Canada and New Zealand
GlobaLex - look under Foreign Law Research for links to starting points for many countries
United States code - Accessible by title, popular name, and keyword
The Library of Congress Thomas service - Legislative information including access to Bill summary, status and text and the Congressional Record giving text of the debates in the US Senate.
Islamic Law Publications
Useful links provided by the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the University of London.
Try these to get started:
EUR-Lex provides access to the the Official Journal L and C and EU case law, legislation and treaties.
Westlaw contains cases, legislation and treaties under the EU tab
Lexis+ UK also contains EU cases and legislation: use the Cases tab for selected cases from 1995 onwards via the All England Law Reports European; or try International Cases on the left hand side and then select EU Cases from the drop-down menu; use the Legislation tab and then International legislation.
Free official versions of European treaties (original and amended), European Union case-law and the Official Journal plus international agreements, legislation in force, preparatory acts and parliamentary questions.
Access a wide range of legal materials including UK cases and updated legislation, legal journals, books and dictionaries.
To Log in, enter your university email address and password. Users must enter their details the first time they use Westlaw after logging in. This creates a separate Westlaw account so you can use the personalisation features of the site.
Access UK cases, legislation and legal journals as well as national and regional newspapers and legal materials from countries across the world. Includes both Lexis PSL with practical guidance written by solicitors and barristers on legal topics as well as forms, checklists and precedents, and content from Lexis Accountancy Lite including Tolley's Tax Handbooks Series, the Yellow and Orange Tax Guides, Simon's Taxes, Tax Journal, and the Finance Acts.
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Cases from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the General Court (EGC) (previously known as Court of First Instance (CFI)) are reported in the European Court Reports (ECR) and the Common Market Law Reports (CMLR). Cases from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) are reported in the European Human Rights Reports (EHRR).
Court of Justice of the European Union
This is the official site of the European Courts and it provides full but provisional text of their judgments and opinions searchable from June 1997.
Available in our eResources but also here:
European Union treaties
Full text of the EU Treaties. Founding and Accession Treaties are also available.
Primary legislation (i.e. the Treaties which established the European Communities and the various amending Treaties) can be found on Westlaw or EUR-Lex.
The official source for EU secondary legislation is the Official Journal (OJ), available from EUR-Lex. There are three series – C, L and S. From 1990 onwards, copies of the OJ (C), which contains proposed legislation and cases, and the OJ(L), which contains legislation, can be accessed via Westlaw.
Adopted legislation (i.e. Directives, Decisions and Regulations) can be found on Lexis+ UK and Westlaw.
Summaries of EU legislation
The main legislative measures and procedures for each of the activities of the EU.
Legislative Procedures
a free service provided by the European Commission that allows you to search and follow the major stages of the decision-making process between the Commission and the other institutions.
NOTE: This is the judicial body of the Council of Europe and has no connection with the European Union - it hears cases of alleged breaches of basic human rights and freedoms:
European Court of Human Rights
A list of pending cases is available and judgments under Case Law (via HUDOC)
You can also find judgments in the European Human Rights Reports (EHRR) via Westlaw.
If you need international law materials, try these resources: