Law E-books

in a Nutshell

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This nutshell guide provides an overview of the law eBooks available from the Online
Library databases and freely available online.

VLeBooks
Access VLeBooks with your student portal username and password.
VLeBooks contains an extensive collection of e‐Books. To find out which eBooks are avail‐
able you can search Summon, the A‐Z Journals List, or the VLeBooks database directly.
You can read online or download the e‐books in VLeBooks that the Online Library has a
purchased.
Find out more about VLeBooks on our E‐books page.

E‐Book Central (ProQuest)

The Online Library also provides access to a growing collection of e‐books in E‐Book Cen‐
tral. You can login from the E‐Book Central database page, or search Summon.

Westlaw

Access Westlaw e‐books by selecting Westlaw Books from the menu across the top of the
homepage.
Westlaw e‐books are mainly practitioner texts and include:
 Arbitration World 2018: Karyl Nairn; Patrick Heneghan
 Archbold Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice 2022 ed.
 Arnould's Law of Marine Insurance 20th ed. Gilman; Merkin
 Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings 19th ed.
 CIPA Guide to the Patents Acts 9th ed.
 Colinvaux's Law of Insurance 12th ed.
 Copinger and Skone James on Copyright 18th ed.
 Current Sentencing Practice
 Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names 16th ed.
 The Law on Financial Derivatives 6th ed.
 MacGillivray on Insurance Law 15th ed.
 Palmer's Company Law

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 Redfern & Hunter: Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration 6th ed.
 Renton and Brown Criminal Procedure 6th ed.
 Renton and Brown Criminal Procedure Legislation
 Securities Law 2nd ed.
Did you Know…….. Westlaw’s Index to
 Terrell on the Law of Patents 19th ed.
Legal Terms includes access to:
 Totty, Moss & Segal: Insolvency
 Jowi ’s Dic onary of English Law.
 The White Book 2022
 Stroud’s Judicial Dic onary of
 Woodfall: Landlord and Tenant Words and Phrases.

 Osborn’s Concise Law Dic onary.

Lexis+

Log into Lexis+ from the Lexis+ database page. Access e‐books by selecting content from the
Explore menu. Select Books & Journals, then under content type, select Books. Here you can
browse the list of available titles, or search within all books using the search bar at the top of
the page.

Alternatively access the selection of Lexis+ e‐books listed below directly, by selecting the title
links and choosing Academic Sign‐In. Then log in with your student portal password by fol‐
lowing the instructions in the Lexis+ login guide.

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A Selection of the commentary available in Lexis+:
 Anthony and Berryman's Magistrates' Court Guide 2022 ‐ Practical and easy to use, it is
the single most important guide to all the activities of the magistrates' court, containing
straightforward and concise coverage of new case law.
 Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2022 – a single point of reference on criminal law and
procedure covering all areas of criminal law. Includes the full updated text of the Criminal
Procedure rules and the Sentencing Guidelines.
 Halsbury's Laws of England – a legal encyclopedia that provides the only comprehensive
narrative statement of the law of England and Wales.
 Stone's Justices' Manual 2021 ‐ provides the most reliable and current coverage of the
legislative changes affecting magistrates' courts.
 Words & Phrases Legally Defined ‐ an anthology of selected judicial and statutory
definitions gathered under relevant subject headings.

HeinOnline
HeinOnline’s homepage lists the databases available, some of which contain e‐books.
For example, Legal Classics includes more than 10,000 works from some of the greatest legal
minds in history including Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, William Holdsworth, Federick
William Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Benjamin E. Cardozo, and many more!

Cambridge Core
You can access Cambridge Core with your student portal password.
A selection of the law e‐books available are:
 Spencer, D. and M. Brogan Mediation law and practice. (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006)
 Moses, M.L. The principles and practice of international commercial arbitration.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 3rd edition
 Roberts, S. and M. Palmer Dispute processes: ADR and the primary forms of decision‐
making. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) 2nd edition
 De Schutter, O. International human rights law: cases, materials, commentary.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) third edition [ISBN 9781108463560].
 Hartley, T. International commercial litigation: text, cases and materials on private
international law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) third edition [ISBN
9781108721134]. eISBN: 9781108774819
 Harlow, C. and R. Rawlings Law and administration. (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2021) fourth edition [ISBN 9781316604373

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KluwerArbitration
To access KluwerArbitration, complete the Kluwer Arbitration request form to request a
password.
Kluwer Arbitration e‐books are available from the Books tab on the home page.
A selection of the e‐books available are:
 Essays on mediation: dealing with disputes in the 21st century: global trends in dispute
resolution. Macduff, I. (ed) (2016)
 Concise International Arbitration, Mistelis (ed) (2015) ‐ a succinct, accessible and
authoritative commentary.
 Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration (2015) ‐ Reviews the legal context within
which international commercial arbitration operates.
 International Arbitration: Law and Practice, Born (2021) – provides a comprehensive
coverage of the basic principles and legal doctrines, and the practice, of international
arbitration.
 ICCA Congress Series ‐ reports and commentary presented at International Council for
Commercial Arbitration congresses and conferences.

Freely Available E‐books

Google Books: Full text access to out of print books and full text extracts of a wide range of in
print books. On Google Books you will often find limited preview versions of electronic law
textbooks. Limited preview versions exclude pages due to copyright law.
Project Gutenberg: The Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books.
Publications Office of the EU: EU Law publications.

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