New ebooks: Hart Law 2023 collection

Posted on September 11, 2023 by lawlibrarian

Welcome to the Law School to all our new students and welcome back to our returning students! You’ll be glad to know that the library has expanded it’s ebook collection ahead of the new academic year and we now have access to Hart’s 2023 Law collection.

Some highlights include:

Agency, Morality and Law, written by Joshua Jowitt
Public Health Crisis Management and Criminal Liability of Governments: A Comparative Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic, edited by Michael Bohlander, Gerhard Kemp, and Mark Webster
Self-Determination in the International Legal System: Whose Claim, to What Right? written by Tom Sparks

If you have suggestions for books you’d like us to purchase for the library, students can use the Student Request A Book (RAB) service. Staff members can follow the procedure on the Library Support intranet page.

New resources: Elgar 2021 ebooks

Posted on July 15, 2021 by lawlibrarian

You may be interested in some of the exciting new ebook packages we’ve purchased recently for use by students and staff in the School.

Edward Elgar Publishing are a well-respected publisher who produce excellent books, textbooks and journals in many subject areas. We often purchase their annual Law ebook package, and this year is no different. Some highlights include:

EU copyright law : a commentary edited by Irini Stamatoudi and Paul Torremans.
Comparative tort law: global perspectives edited by Mauro Bussani and Anthony J. Sebok.
Poverty and human rights : multidisciplinary perspectives edited by Suzanne Egan and Anna Chadwick.

For more information about the books included in the Law 2021 package, visit the Elgar Online website, or search DiscoverEd for ‘Edward Elgar’.

You made it! End of AY 2020-2021

Posted on May 21, 2021 by lawlibrarian

Three snails are in a line, and look like they are crawling across concrete strewn with leaves. At the fore of the image there is a banner indicating the finish line, though the text is partially out of shot and out of focus.

It’s felt like a sluggish crawl to the finish line, but we made it! (Image by Jarmoluk via Pixabay)

Monday 24th May 2021 marks the beginning of the summer vacation, meaning that for the majority of students teaching has finished for the year and exams are over. Everybody who has completed a period of study during this confusing, stressful, and difficult year deserves recognition of the incredible effort they’ve put in. We want to acknowledge the great flexibility and adaptability our students in the School of Law (and across the University) have shown by managing to work on, submit assignments and complete courses of study. We’re proud to have played a part in keeping your education on track.

Library Services has been working incredibly hard behind the scenes to make swift transitions as seamless as possible, and while we know it hasn’t been an entirely smooth ride we appreciate the patience and grace shown to us by staff and students while we managed the changes as best we could.

Although the pandemic isn’t over yet we hope that when the next academic year begins in September we’ll be looking at a very different landscape, with a robust vaccination programme, more freedom and therefore a much anticipated return to normal opening for our beautiful and well-used libraries.

We recognise that many staff and students will be continuing to research throughout the summer and would like to highlight that we’re available to support your work all year round, not just in term time! If you require support or have questions about resources during the summer months please use our email address (law.librarian@ed.ac.uk) to contact us.

~ Donna and SarahLouise

Click & Collect comes to the Law Library

Posted on April 1, 2021 by lawlibrarian

The Law Library now is part of the Click & Collect Service!

The Click & Collect service has been expanding since it’s launch in Feb 2021. As of 29th March 2021 staff and students are able to place Click & Collect requests for print material from the Law Library collections.

The Law Library resources are in addition to those already available from the Main Library, New College Library, ECA Library and University Collections Facilities. Items based at other site libraries are not yet available for Click & Collect.

To order a book collection using the service:

Place your request through DiscoverEd.
You can order up 3 Click & Collect items at any one time. The maximum number of requests covers your total current Click & Collect requests.
All items requested should be collected from the Main Library as the Law Library remains closed.
Staff will undertake retrievals of items requested from the Law Library once a week (Tuesdays). So depending on when you place your request it may mean that it may take over a week for you to receive an email notification that your requested item is available for collection.
Once you have received an email notification that your requested Law Library item is available you should make a booking to collect your item from the Main Library.

Full details of the service are available on the main Library Click and Collect Service webpages:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/library-services-update-2020-21/click-and-collect

Don’t forget that the Scan & Deliver Service is also available to you!

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/using-library/request-resources/scan-and-deliver%20

New Resources

Posted on March 4, 2021 by lawlibrarian

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Throughout the year the Law Librarians purchase new materials – sometimes following requests, and other times to ensure that new editions of established and key texts are available to staff and students. This part of our work has been especially busy this last year as learning and teaching has gone online!

Requests are received from students, staff and colleagues from across the Law School. Some are related to specific courses, but many are to support the research undertaken by staff and students.

We thought we would take this opportunity to let you know about a few of the new items we have recently ordered and received in:

Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology (2018)
Principle and pragmatism in Roman law (2020)
Commercial Trusts (D’Angelo, 2014)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment in the Age of Trump (2019)
Necessary evil: how to fix finance by saving human rights (2018)
Shareholder Activism and the Law: The Future of Us Corporate Governance (2020)
Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter : Policing Black and Brown Bodies (2018)
The Internal Market 2. 0 (2020)
Llm Dissertation : How to Maximise Marks for Your Practice Focused Dissertation. (2018)
Records of the Kurds: territory, revolt and nationalism, 1831-1979. (2015)

This last item is a 13 volume set comprising of around 9000 pages, making it an incredibly helpful resource on the topic of the history of the Kurdish people. Having access to this material makes Edinburgh one of a select number of universities who give access to their students and staff to this unique resource.

Staff and students can place requests directly using the online forms available on the Library webpages.

If we cannot purchase the item (may be it is an older edition, out of stock, or not available in the online format you want) then we recommend you use the Interlibrary Loan Request Service which allows us to try to source access from other libraries or academic institutions.

If you would like us to consider a subscription, or you want to discuss your request further you can email us in the usual way using law.librarian@ed.ac.uk.

Happy reading!

Law Librarian

Academic Support Librarians for staff & students in the School of Law blogging on Library resources, services and skills.

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