Book sale in the law library

 

We are happy to announce that our annual book sale is now on until Monday 5 March. Please visit us, and check out the books on the trolleys next to the Issue Desk. We sell law books that are duplicates of items in our collection or donations that are not required. They cover almost every area of law, form jurisprudence through criminal law, family law, intellectual property law, land law to EU law.

Our prices are really friendly:

• Paperback – £1.00
• Hardback – £2.00

We hope that many of you will find something interesting and useful in the sale section.

Taylor Library Team
lawlib@abdn.ac.uk

 

Tip of the Day: finding e-books via Westlaw UK

1) List of books on Westlaw UK

To access books on the legal database Westlaw, go to the Library home page at www.abdn.ac.uk/library/ and type ‘Westlaw UK’ into the Search Our Collections box. Follow the link to Westlaw UK from the results screen on Primo and you will be prompted to log in with your University computer username and password through the Shibboleth authentication route.

There are 8 different tabs on the Westlaw UK website; go to Books. Westlaw will present you with a list of text books that we have access to in full text. Significant titles in the collection include:

• Anton’s Private International Law 3rd edn.
• Archbold Criminal Pleading Evidence and Practice 2018 edn.
• Davidson: Arbitration 2nd edn.
• Macphail’s Sheriff Court Practice 3rd edn. 
• Palmer’s Company Law
• Redfern & Hunter: Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration 6th edn.
• Renton and Brown Criminal Procedure 6th edn.
• The Law of Contract in Scotland 3rd edn.

 

 

Click on a title and you will be given the choice to use the Free Text search box to a keyword search within the book, or to browse its contents through Mainwork.

2) If you come across an e-book while searching Primo…

Often a book can be available in different editions and different formats. These books are identified in Primo with the notation ‘multiple versions found’.

To understand this option, try the following search:

1. Go to Primo and enter the following keywords into the search box under the Books+ tab:
   law contract Scotland McBryde
2. Primo will find 2 records containing those words. The record for: The Law of Contract in Scotland by William McBryde appears to include multiple versions. 
3. Open the View 4 versions link.
4. The results are ranked chronologically with the newest edition at the top.
5. Underneath the top entry you will see the words: Online Access. This means that the book is available electronically. To access and read it, click on either the View Online tab or the book title. You may be asked to log in with your University computer username and password. Clicking on the title will take you to the Browse and Search screens within the book. 

Note: To obtain this book in paper format click on Availability. This will give you information about the location and availability of the item.

If you have any problems using Westlaw UK, please speak to a member of our team or email us at lawlib@abdn.ac.uk.

Taylor Library is open 9:00-22:00 most days. For more details see our opening times page.

 

Taylor Library book-sale

A selection of what’s available

The Taylor Library book-sale is currently on and will continue until Friday 6th October. There’s still plenty of interesting titles available so if you haven’t had a look yet, make sure you do before next Friday!

New books in Taylor Library

See below for a selection of highlights from our July acquisitions. An excerpt from the publishers description follows the bibliographic details. Click on the shelfmark links to view the book records on Primo.

You can also view the complete list of the last three month’s acquisitions here.

Failure to flourish: how law undermines family relationships
Clare Huntington
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2014
346.73015 HUN

“Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families. Strong, stable, positive relationships are essential for both individuals and society to flourish, but from transportation policy to the criminal justice system, and from divorce rules to the child welfare system, the legal system makes it harder for parents to provide children with these kinds of relationships, exacerbating the growing inequality in America” (OUP)

Tallinn manual 2.0 on the international law applicable to cyber operations
Michael N. Schmitt  (ed)
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017
341.63 SCH

“The focus of the original Manual was on the most severe cyber operations, those that violate the prohibition of the use of force in international relations, entitle states to exercise the right of self-defence, and/or occur during armed conflict. Tallinn Manual 2.0 adds a legal analysis of the more common cyber incidents that states encounter on a day-to-day basis and that fall below the thresholds of the use of force or armed conflict.

The expanded edition of the Tallinn Manual, like its predecessor, represents the views of its authors, and not of NATO, the NATO CCD COE, its Sponsoring Nations, or any other entity. ” (CCDCOE)

The UK and European human rights: a strained relationship? 
Katja S. Ziegler (ed)
Oxford : Hart Pub., 2015
341.48094 ZIE

“The UK’s engagement with the legal protection of human rights at a European level has been, at varying stages, pioneering, sceptical and antagonistic. The UK government, media and public opinion have all at times expressed concerns about the growing influence of European human rights law, particularly in the controversial contexts of prisoner voting and deportation of suspected terrorists as well as in the context of British military action abroad. British politicians and judges have also, however, played important roles in drafting, implementing and interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. Its incorporation into domestic law in the Human Rights Act 1998 intensified the ongoing debate about the UK’s international and regional human rights commitments. Furthermore, the increasing importance of the European Union in the human rights sphere has added another layer to the relationship and highlights the complex relationship(s) between the UK government, the Westminster Parliament and judges in the UK, Strasbourg and Luxembourg.

The book analyses the topical and contentious issue of the relationship between the UK and the European systems for the protection of human rights (ECHR and EU) from doctrinal, contextual and comparative perspectives and explores factors that influence the relationship of the UK and European human rights.” (Hart Pub)

New Books in Taylor Library

The latest additions to the Taylor Library general book collection have now been added to the new acquisitions page. See the list below for details and links to the book entries on Primo.

June 2017
Author	Title	Publisher	Shelfmark
Acharya, Rohini (ed)	Regional trade agreements and the multilateral trading system	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016	382.9 ACH
Alexander, Isabella (ed)	Research handbook on the history of copyright law	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., c2016	346.0482 ALE
Aplin, Tanya Frances	Intellectual property law: text, cases, and materials	Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2017	346.048 APL
Barr, Warren (ed)	Modern studies in property law Volume 8	Oxford : Hart Pub., 2015	346.04 MOD
Bennett, Howard N. (ed)	Carver on charterparties	London : Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters, 2017	343.096 BEN
Boushey, Heather (ed)	After Piketty: the agenda for economics and inequality	Cambridge, Mass. ;   London : Harvard University Press, 2017	332.041 PIK BOU
Butler, William Elliott	Russian law	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009	349.47 BUT
Byers, Michael	International law and the Arctic	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013	341.45 BYE
Calvo Caravaca, Alfonso-Luis (ed)	The EU Succession Regulation: a commentary	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016	346.24052 CAL
De Jonge, Alice (ed)	Research handbook on transnational corporations	Cheltenham ; Edward Elgar Pub., 2017	338.883 De
Derrington, Sarah C.	The law and practice of admiralty matters	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016	343.096 DER
Dickinson, Andrew (ed)	The Brussels I Regulation recast	Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2015	340.9094 DIC
Dixon, Martin	Modern land law	London : Routledge, c2016	346.42043 DIX
Dreyfuss, Rochelle Cooper	Intellectual property at the edge: the contested contours of IP	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014	346.4048 DRE
Fox, Lorna	Conceptualising home: theories, laws and policies	Oxford : Hart Pub., 2007	346.043 FOX
Gilmore, Stephen (ed)	Landmark cases in family law	Oxford : Hart Pub., 2016	346.42 GIL
Ginsburg, Tom (ed)	Assessing constitutional performance	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016	342 GIN e-book version available
Goode, Royston Miles	Goode on Commercial law	London : Penguin Books, 2016	346.4107 GOO
Gravells, N.P. (ed)	Landmark cases in land law	Oxford : Hart Pub., 2013	346.42043 GRA
Hønneland, Geir (ed)	Handbook of the politics of the arctic	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., c2015	327.98 JEN
Jänterä-Jareborg, Maarit (ed)	The child’s interest in conflict: the intersections between society, family, faith and culture	Cambridge : Intersentia, c2016	346.0135 JAN
Keenan, Sarah	Subversive property: law and the production of spaces of belonging	Abingdon : Routledge, 2016	340.115 KEE
Kerschischnig, Georg	Cyberthreats and international law	The Hague : Eleven International Pub., c2012	344.05325 KER
Klabbers, Jan	International law	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017	341 KLA
Koivurova, Timo (ed)	Arctic law and governance: the role of China, Finland and the EU	Oxford : Hart Pub., 2017	341.44 KOI
Kruiniger, Pauline	Islamic divorces in Europe: bridging the gap between European and Islamic legal order	The Hague : Eleven International Pub., c2016	340.59097 KRU
Lowe, N. V.	Lowe, Everall Nicholls International movement of children: law, practice and procedure	Bristol : LexisNexis, 2016	344.410328 LOW
Magnus, Ulrich	Brussels Ibis regulation: commentary	Köln : Otto Schmidt ; c2016	347.2405026 MAG
McDonagh, Luke (ed)	European patent litigation in the shadow of the Unified Patent Court	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, c2016	346.40486 MCD
McFarlane, Ben	Land law: text, cases, and materials	Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2015	346.42043 MCF
Moelle, Moritz P.	The international responsibility of international organisations: cooperation in peacekeeping operations	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017	341.584 MOE
Moses, Jonathon Wayne	Managing resource abundance and wealth: the Norwegian experience	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017	333.709481 MOS
Nollkaemper, André (ed)	Principles of shared responsibility in international law: an appraisal of the state of the art	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014	341.26 NOL
Peel, Jacqueline (ed)	The role of international environmental law in disaster risk reduction	Leiden : Brill Nijhoff, 2016	344.0534 PEE
Pobjoy, Jason M.	The child in international refugee law	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017	341.486083 POB
Rothwell, Donald (ed)	The Oxford handbook of the law of the sea	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015	343.096 ROT
Schabas, William	An introduction to the International Criminal Court	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017	341.77 SCH
Sendall, Jane	Family law	Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2017	346.42015 SEN
Stark, Barbara (ed)	Human rights and children	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., 2017	323.352 STA
Treitel, G. H.	Carver on bills of lading	London : Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters, 2017	346.41025 TRE
Triffterer, Otto	Rome Statute of the international Criminal Court: a commentary	München : C.H. Beck ;   London : Hart, 2016	345.0235 TRI
Tusiani, Michael D.	LNG: fuel for a changing world: a nontechnical guide	Tulsa : PennWell, c2016	338.27285 TUS
May 2017
Author	Title	Publisher	Shelfmark
Adodo, Ebenezer O. I.	Letters of credit: the law and practice of compliance	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014	346.096 ADO
Bertrams, R. I. V. F.	Bank guarantees in international trade: the law and practice of independent (first demand) guarantees and standby letters of credit in civil law and common law jurisdictions	The Hague : Wolters Kluwer, c2013	346.074 BER
Buchanan, Bonnie G.	Securitization and the global economy	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2017	332.632 BUC
Calnan, Richard	Principles of contractual interpretation	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017	346.41022 CAL
Clarke M. A.	Commercial law: text, cases and materials	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017	346.4107 CLA
Cuniberti, Gilles	Conflict of laws: a comparative approach – text and cases	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, c2017	340.9 CUN
Dalhuisen, J. H.	Dalhuisen on transnational comparative, commercial, financial and trade law (3 volume set)	Oxford : Hart Pub., 2016	346.07 DAL
Enonchong, Nelson	The independence principle of letters of credit and demand guarantees	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011	346.073 ENO
Koutrakos, Panos (ed)	Research handbook on the law of the EU’s internal market	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., 2017	343.2408 KOU
Leeuwen, Barend van	European standardisation of services and its impact on private law: paradoxes of convergence	Oxford : Hart Pub., 2017	343.24078 LEE
Matsushita, Mitsuo	The World Trade Organization: law, practice, and policy	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017	382.92 MAT
Silveira, Mercedeh Azeredo da	Trade sanctions and international sales: an inquiry into international arbitration and commercial litigation	Alphen aan den Rijn : Wolters Kluwer, 2014	341.582 SIL
Trebilcock, M. J.	Advanced introduction to international trade law	Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub., c2015	343.087 TRE
Wadlow, Christopher	The law of passing off: unfair competition by misrepresentation	London : Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters, 2016	346.41048 WAD
Wells-Greco, Michael	Status of children arising from inter-country surrogacy arrangements	The Hague, the Netherlands : Eleven International Pub., c2016	341.5 WEL
April 2017
Author	Title	Publisher	Shelfmark
Simpson, Andrew R. C.	Continuity, change and pragmatism in the law: essays in memory of professor Angelo Forte	Aberdeen : Aberdeen University Press, 2016	349.411 SIM

New books in Taylor Library

Dr Andrew Simpson with the essay collection

The latest additions to the Taylor Library general book collection have now been added to the new acquisitions page. See the list below for details and links to the book entries on Primo.

As we near the end of term, the number of books coming in naturally goes down, however April’s sole addition is one of note –  a collection of essays in memory of Professor Angelo Forte (1949 – 2012),  who held the Chair of Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen from 1993 – 2010. The volume is contributed to and edited by Aberdeen Law Lecturer Dr. Andrew Simpson, and in addition to being available to borrow from the Taylor Library, the collection is also available to purchase here.

The volume was successfully launched in the Craig Suite of the Sir Duncan Rice Library on 20th January of this year.

April 2017
Author	Title	Publisher	Shelfmark
Simpson, Andrew R. C. (ed)	Continuity, change and pragmatism in the law: essays in memory of professor Angelo Forte	Aberdeen : Aberdeen University Press, 2016	349.411 SIM
March 2017
Author	Title	Publisher	Shelfmark
Dixon, Martin	Cases and materials on international law	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016	341.026 DIX
Flyn, Derek	Crofting law	Edinburgh : Avizandum Publishing Ltd., 2017	343.411076 FLY
Guilfoyle, Douglas	International criminal law	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016	345 GUI
Klip, André	Annotated leading cases of international criminal tribunals. Special Tribunal for Lebanon 2009 – 2013	Cambridge : Intersentia, c2017	Rep 340 Ann
McNeill, Peter G. B.	Adoption of children in Scotland	Edinburgh : W. Green/Thomson Reuters, 2016	346.0178 MCN
Sutherland, Elaine (ed)	Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: best interests, welfare and well-being	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016	344.0317 SUT
February 2017
Author	Title	Publisher	Shelfmark
Gill, Brian	Agricultural tenancies* *Previous editions titled Law of agricultural holdings in Scotland.	Edinburgh : W. Green/Thomson Reuters, 2017	346.41104348 GIL
McKendrick, Ewan	Contract law	Basingstoke : Macmillan Education/Palgrave, 2015	346.4202 MCK
Rotabi, Karen Smith	From intercountry adoption to global surrogacy: a human rights history and new fertility frontiers	London : Routledge, 2016	306.8743 ROT

 

New books in Taylor Library

Click cover to see Primo entry

 

 

February saw three new additions to the Taylor Library general book collection. See the list below for details and links to the book entries on Primo. You can also have a look at the Taylor new acquisitions page for a list of what has come in over the last three months.

February 2017
Author	Title	Publisher	Shelfmark
Gill, Brian	Agricultural tenancies* *Previous editions titled Law of agricultural holdings in Scotland.	Edinburgh : W. Green/Thomson Reuters, 2017	346.41104348 GIL
McKendrick, Ewan	Contract law	Basingstoke : Macmillan Education/Palgrave, 2015	346.4202 MCK
Rotabi, Karen Smith	From intercountry adoption to global surrogacy: a human rights history and new fertility frontiers	London : Routledge, 2016	306.8743 ROT

A little fun during exam time – Overdue library book returned to school 120 years late

Please take a break from revision and study to read this lovely story on the BBC website: An overdue school library book has finally returned – 120 years late.

 

 

Tip of the Day – Borrowing entitlement

Library users may borrow materials from the Sir Duncan Rice Library as well as from any of the site libraries, e.g. Medical Library or Taylor Library. The number of the items you can get depends on your membership category.

If you wish to know your borrowing entitlement, please consult the following list:

• Undergraduate students: 20 loans
• Taught Postgraduate students: 20 loans
• Research Postgraduate students: 30 loans
• Staff (including Honorary and Retired Staff): 50 loans
• Temporary Services Staff: 10 loans
• NHS Grampian Staff: 10 loans
• External readers: 10 loans
• SCONUL Access readers: 5 loans

Remember! University students and staff can get only two Heavy Demand books at a time, within their borrowing entitlement.

For more information, please follow the link here.

Taylor Library Team
lawlib@abdn.ac.uk

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Charlotte Square during the Edinburgh International Book Festival

This is an excellent opportunity to get a break from your studies. For those of you who are finishing your postgraduate courses during the summer and being busy with dissertations and deadlines, there is a chance to relax and enjoy life, while still staying intellectually focused.

If you visit Edinburgh between 13 – 29 August, you can celebrate the power of words at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with thousands of other festival goers. Nick Barley (the  Director of the Festival) explains that “the theme of this year’s Festival is ‘Project No Fear’. It’s about encouraging and celebrating the sort of courageous, positive, creative thinking that we desperately need in order to make the world a better place for everyone, rather than just for a privileged few.”

The Festival offers events for both adults and children. Please browse the themes of the programme here, there is really plenty to listen to, look at and read. Let’s finish this post with Fiona Hyslop’s words, who is Cabinet Secretary  for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs at the Scottish Government:  “Since 1983, the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been bringing together some of the world’s finest authors and the best of contemporary Scottish talent. This year’s programme is sure to capture and excite audiences.”

Taylor Library Team
lawlib@abdn.ac.uk