Law Resources

The Law collection is a mix of print and electronic sources which ensure that Law students, researchers and staff have access to a wide range of national and international materials.
Typically legal resources fall into the following categories collection:

Statutes
The Library holds all Irish legislative materials:

• Bills
• Acts
• Statutory Instruments
• The Northern Ireland Statutes revised with cumulative supplements and current annual volumes
• British Statutes from 1801 to date
• A complete collection of the primary and secondary legislation of the European Union
• Annotated statutes  e.g. Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated

Law Books
The law books collections contains materials between the dewey numbers 340-349. All the principle areas of Irish, United Kingdom and International legal books will be within this sequence. Please note that other books in broader legal areas such as human rights, criminology etc. may be on floor 1 of the Library. Use the Library Catalogue when looking for books.

Law Reference
The reference collection contains the major works for legal research, including legal encyclopedias, annotated statutes, digests, legal dictionaries and legal bibliographies. Murdoch's Irish Legal Companion is an excellent online source. Oxford Reference Online also contains many legal dictionaries and reference sources.

Law Reports
The Library maintains a wide collection of Irish, UK, European and International Legal Reports. These are supplemented widely by electronic access via Justis , WestlawUK, Lexis-Nexis, WestlawIE and other databases. We also hold selected unreported judgments from the High Court and Supreme from 1968-  
For a listing of the major Library reports series we hold please contact the Law Office.

Journals
The Library holds all Irish legal periodicals and the major UK, European and International titles. These are shelved in dewy classification order in the Journals area at the back of the ground floor. We have access to 1000s of other journals in electronic form thanks to the IReL initiative. For example all law journals published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwell Synergy, Project Muse etc. are now available to us. We have access to many hundreds of American journal titles through LexisNexis, WestlawUK, HeinOnline amongst others.

The Library catalogue lists all our Law Journals with links where possible to the electronic versions as well. The Find E-Journal option is also a good source.
We do provide a list of our print and selected electronic titles. Click here to open.

Journal Abbreviations 

The Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations is a very useful resource for locating full titles of journals and reports.

Databases
The Library accesses a number of quality legal databases which provide broad access to journals, legislation, case reports. Justis , Lexis-Nexis, WestlawUK,  Westlaw IE  are some of our most popular resources. OurLaw E-Resources page provides a full list of databases available. Also the Cross Search option in Metalib (requires login) allows you to search a number of databases with law content at the same time e.g. Index to Legal Periodicals, Academic Search Premier, JSTOR amongst others.

Database Guides

Database List	WestlawIE
Westlaw

Law Reform Commission Reports
The Library has developed a distinct collection of publications of Law Reform Commissions from Ireland, United Kingdom, Scotland, Australia. Many of these and other law reform commission reports are also available electronically. Use the Library catalogue to check on our holdings.

Internet Links

• Irish Statute Book Irish acts and Statutory Instruments from 1922-2003
• Oireachtas Website Bills and acts from 1997- to present
• Irishlaw Excellent legal portal for free Irish resources
• IRLII  Irish Legal Information Initiative. Contains an index to Irish legal also links to recent developments in law, key cases and statutes.
• BAILLI High Court and Supreme Court Reports
• Courts Service Web Site Information and Judgments from the Irish Courts
• Irish Government Site

Links to Irish government departments and resources

• Company Law Review Group
• Law Reform Commission
• Acts of the UK Parliament
• Law Reform Commission of England and Wales
• Europa  -  Gateway to the European Union          

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