New Look Westlaw UK is live

Westlaw UK has recently undergone some major interface changes, refining many features and bringing the general look and feel in line with Westlaw International.

As before you should access Westlaw UK via Primo, our resource discovery tool. Users familiar with the previous Westlaw UK interface will have no trouble locating cases, legislation and articles etc, as the content header tabs are similarly displayed at the top of the page in the collections navigation bar. Clicking on any of the main content tabs opens up a second layer of tabs, providing in depth searching and browsing options. You can also search across all collections or browse by topic right from the home page. The Options button allows you to select specific collections to search across.

Westlaw UK new look homepage: The collections Navigation Bar, Options button and Browse by Topic highlighted

Cases

The Cases tab opens up to Cases Home in the second layer of tabs giving you the option to search for specific cases by Free Text, Subject/Keyword, Party Names or Citation. The next two tabs in the second layer provide browsing options, so you can browse by court or by law report series title.  The fourth tab allows you to search for Quantum Reports. This one is a new addition, stay tuned for updates.

Westlaw UK Cases Home page: Second layer of tabs highlighted at the top, and More Options for advanced searching

Legislation

Clicking the Legislation tab takes you to Legislation Home and allows access to a complete collection of consolidated UK, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Acts and Statutory Instruments which you can browse or search directly. Clicking More Options at the bottom of the search box enables you to search across historical and prospective legislation. The rest of the second layer of tabs provides options to browse organized lists of:

• UK Primary & Secondary legislation
• UK Bills & Drafts
• Policy & Guidance
• Latest Legislation
• Key Legal Concepts

Journals

The Journals tab is where you can find full text UK legal journal articles from major publishers such as Sweet & Maxwell, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.  You can also link to over half a million article abstracts from UK and EU legal journals.

Within any collection search page you can open up collection-specific advanced searching facilities by clicking on More Options at the bottom of the search box. This way you can refine your search to show only the most relevant results.

Westlaw UK’s document display pages include smartly organised links to a variety of supporting materials in the menu bar to the left of the display window. To the right of the display window are various Delivery options that allow you to email, print, download, you will also find options to organize documents using the Personalisation Tools:

Personalisation Tools

At the top of the Westlaw UK interface there are some features that allow you to personalise your research experience, such as: Favourites, Folders, History and Alerts. To make the most of the personalisation tools click on User Guides in the grey footer at the bottom of Westlaw UK and click Personalisations in the menu on the left side of the page for step by step instructions.

For more information and help using the database, Westlaw UK has a comprehensive User Guides section which you can access from within Westlaw via the link in the grey footer at the bottom of the page.

Our detailed library guides on Westlaw UK will be going live on the University Website later this week. And once term starts there will be regular library workshops on how to make the most of this resource.

Lexis Library: News & International collections unavailable

Lexis Library’s News and International Materials collections have been moved to a new platform. Unfortunately at the moment we are unable to access this content. If you require a specific document held in either of these collections, please email the Library at library@abdn.ac.uk. Please include details of the item(s) you require and your contact details.

The Library is in contact with Lexis Library and we hope to regain access to this content soon. Please note that all other collections within Lexis Library are unaffected.

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!

Hello from Janet, your Information Consultant

Hi! I’m Janet MacKay, the Information Consultant for Law. I’m here to support the students and staff in the School of Law. I qualified as a librarian in 2003, and have been a member of the Teaching, Liaison & Consultancy team in the University of Aberdeen’s library since 2011.

The best way to contact me is by email as I am often teaching or at meetings. My email address is j.i.mackay@abdn.ac.uk. I work in The Sir Duncan Rice Library (SDRL) for part of the week as I am also the Information Consultant for the Business School – my office in SDRL is on Floor 4. If you have any questions, please get in touch. If I’m in my office in Taylor Library, just knock! It’s the room with the ‘Librarian’s Office’ notice on the door.

If you are a new student, we’ll be meeting in workshops where I’ll be teaching you how to find the literature to support your studies and beyond.

See you soon!

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

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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

University of Aberdeen law students win National Client Consultation competition

(L-R) Euan and Jennifer with the winners’ trophy and University law lecturer Malcolm Combe

Congratulations go to University of Aberdeen Law Diploma students Jennifer Baird and Euan Thompson, who jointly won the recent Scottish Client Competition, earning the opportunity to represent Scotland internationally.

 The competition’s theme this year was ‘residential neighbours’ and involved mock scenarios including a hedge dispute and property damage caused by children. Jennifer and Euan took part in a simulated lawyer/client interview and were competing against five other teams from Scottish universities. A panel of expert judges marked each performance and gave feedback.

“I think the competition has been invaluable to both of us, through gaining interview skills, the experience of working under pressure to find solutions and managing client expectations.” -Jennifer Baird

Jennifer and Euan will take their skills to the international stage at the University of Kent later this year.

Congratulations once again to Jennifer and Euan and best of luck for the next stage!

 More information here.

Talk this evening-“Cycling and the Law”

Brenda Mitchell, the founder and Senior Partner at Cycle Law Scotland, will give a talk this evening on the subject of Cycling and the Law. She will be discussing real case studies, case law, video footage and what to do in the event of a collision. This promises to be an engaging event with plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions.

The event will last from 7pm-8:30pm and takes place in New King’s 1 (New King’s is building 22 on the campus map).

Registry for this event is free. For more information and to book your place see the Eventbrite page .

Library workshops for Critical Legal Thinking and Scholarship (LS551T)

We would like to remind our new LLM students that the library workshops for Critical Legal Thinking are happening next week (w/c 30th of January).

Please check which slot you have been allocated to and come along to the 2-hour workshop to sharpen your information retrieval skills!

Location: PC classrooms 1+2, Floor 2, The Sir Duncan Rice Library