The UK will hold a referendum on June 23 to determine whether it will remain in the European Union or not. Brexit (the contraction of British exit) is a new term that encompasses the wide range of moves afoot politically…
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A glance at Law Reporting in the Common Law World…
This past October, the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) celebrated its 150th anniversary. This organisation has had an important role in the creation and development of an organised body of law reports, and has set a standard and system…
The Cape Town Convention
In September last year, the third conference on the Cape Town Convention took place at the Law Faculty in Oxford. This treaty deals with international interests in mobile equipment, and was adopted in late 2001. There are three protocols, dealing…
Opening up a country
I have been fortunate to visit a range of law libraries in Burma’/Myanmar last year and again recently. Whilst this is not an ‘international’ topic, I am sharing a brief overview of the experience with IALL colleagues because so little…
Legal deposit goes electronic… for better or worse?
The concept of legal deposit is an old one, and has been in place for nearly 600 years, being introduced not long after Gutenberg’s marvellous invention of moveable type. The first country to implement the concept was France in 1537,…
A library founder to be proud of…
It is the 400th anniversary of the death in 1613 of Sir Thomas Bodley. The story of his gift of a library to the University of Oxford, following on from the great 16th century libraries that were established or enlarged…