Subjects

Criminology

Free resources UK

• British Crime Survey
• British Society of Criminology
• Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
• Centre for Criminal Justice Economics & Psychology
• Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
• Crime Reduction
• Criminal Justice System (E&W)
• Crown Prosecution Service
• Edinburgh Studies of Youth Transitions and Crime
• HM Prison Service
• Home Office Crime Reduction
• Home Office RDS
• Howard League for Penal Reform
• Institute for Criminal Policy Research
• NACRO (Care & Resettlement of Offenders)
• National Offender Management Service
• National Statistics
• Police Foundation
• Policy Studies Institute
• Sentencing Guidelines Council
• Strathclyde University Centre for Sentencing Research
• UK Serious & Organised Crime Agency
• Victim Support

Free resources foreign & international

• Death Penalty Information Center
• Eurojust 
• European Crime Surveys
• European Union (Justice & Civil Liberties)
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
• Hands Off Cain
• Heuni (European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control)
• International Centre for Prison Studies
• Legislationline.org
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (USA)
• National Institute of Justice (USA)
• Organised Crime Research
• Uniform Crime Reports
• United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
• World Criminal Justice Library Network

History of Crime & Punishment

• Bibliography of British Police History
• Complete Newgate Calendars
• Dying speeches & bloody murders 
• Famous Trials
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913
• ORB Online Reference Book for Medieval England : Crime and Justice

View the guide to the Criminology Collection in the Bodleian Law Library 

Competition Law

Oxford University only

• HeinOnline [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
• Lexis®Library [OSS]
• Oxford University e-Journals  [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• Westlaw [OSS]

Free resources UK

• Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT)
• Competition Commission
• Competition Court cases database
• Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
• Office of Fair Trading (links to UK Regulators)

View the guide to UK competition law holdings in the Bodleian Law Library.

Free resources EU

• Directorate General European Competition Commission
• ECJ & CFI cases
• Official Journal of the European Union

View the guide to European Union competition law holdings in the Bodleian Law Library.  

You can also view the presentation on EU & UK competition law sources (BLL 2009)
Handlist of useful websites for EU & UK competition law (BLL 2009)

Free resources general

• Institute of Competition Law

Jurisprudence (Philosophy of Law)

Oxford University only

• Cambridge Collections Online (Cambridge Companion to Philosophy)[EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 
• HeinOnline [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• IBP International Bibliography of Philosophy [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 
• NetLibrary [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• Oxford Scholarship Online [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]  - full text philosophy titles, abstracts of law books
• Oxford University e-Journals  [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• Philosophy ebooks (Past Masters) [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 
• Philosophy Online (formerly Poiesis) [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 

Free resources

• Becker-Posner blog
• Bentham
• Bentham Project UCL
• Brian Leiter's Legal Philosophy blog
• CuLT - bibliographic database covering books, articles and reviews in legal theory & jurisprudence from CIRSFID, Faculty of Law, Bologna University.
• Legal Theory blog (Lawrence B. Solum)
• Paideia Archive - full-text versions of papers delivered at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy (1998) dealing with legal philosophy

Legal history 

Oxford University only

• Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 

Free resources

• Timeline of Western Legal History

Common Law - Anglo-American legal tradition

Oxford University only

• British History Online [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• Early English Books Online  (EEBO) [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] (pre-1700)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• English Reports 1220-1865 [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• HeinOnline [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] (English Reports, Legal Classics, Selden Society Publications, Statutes of the Realm) 
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] Sessional papers from 1715 -  
• JustisUK  [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] (English Reports and Ruffhead's Statutes at Large)
• Making of Modern Law 1800 - 192) (MoML) [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] 
• Making of the Modern World (MoMW): [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]  Statutes of the Realm
• MEMSO (coming soon)
• Oxford University e-Journals  [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+] 

Free resources

• Ames Foundation
• Avalon Project: documents in law, history and diplomacy
• Bibliography on British and Irish Legal History (updated annually)
• Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England
• BOPCRIS: Statutes at Large (1603-1800); Statutes of the UK (1800-1835)
• English Reports 1220-1865
• Famous Trials
• Hamlyn Lecture Series on the Common Law 1949-
• Hansard 1803 - 2005
• History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
• Institute of Historical Research
• Legal History Project
• Online Library of Liberty
• Selden Society

You can view the Law Library presentation introducing some e-resources for English Legal History

Archives

• Access to Archives
• ARCHON Directory - contact details for holders of archives in the UK
• The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office)

Pre Conquest England

• Anglo-Saxon Charters
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (modern English translation)
• Anglo-Saxon Dictionary aka Bosworth and Toller
• Anglo-Saxon Laws
• Early English Laws (up to 1215)
• English Medieval Legal Documents AD 600 - 1535
• The Tribal Hidage

1066 to 1688

Long Eighteenth Century

• Bentham
• Bentham Project UCL
• English Bill of Rights 1689
• Electronic Englightenment [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
• Friedman : Making sense of English law enforcement in the 18th century

Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries

• 19th century legal historians : Maine, Maitland, Mill, Vinogradoff
• Hansard 1803 - 2005
• Making of Modern Law [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

History of Crime & Punishment

• Complete Newgate Calendars
• Dying speeches & Bloody Murders
• ORB Online Reference Book for Medieval England : Crime and Justice
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1913

History of the English Legal Profession

• Inner Temple Admissions Register 1547 - 1840
• Introduction to the legal professions to 1850 (from Inner Temple)
• National Archives introductory guide to records of lawyers
• National Archives indepth guide to records of attorneys and solicitors
• Overview of legal education to 1850  (from Inner Temple)
• Tracing past solicitors (pdf guide from The Law Society)

Civil Law - European legal tradition

Oxford University only

• Oxford University e-Journals  [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

Free Resources

• Forum Historiae Iuris
• Max Planck Insitute for European Legal History
• Stair Society - for Scottish legal history

View the guide to Legal History resources in the Bodleian Law Library.

A guide for finding works published pre-1850 on OLIS (library catalogue) 

Canon Law

Please note: The Bodleian Law Library does not have an extensive Canon Law section in its collection. However, it is possible to order items from the Bodleian Stacks to be read in the Library via the Automated Stack Request (ASR) system.

Free Resources

• Corpus Juris Canonici (1582) - Gratian's Decretum (ca. 1140), Gregory IX's Liber Extra (1234), and Boniface VIII's Liber Sextus (1298),  Ordinary Glosses and further commentaries. Also included here are corrected and expanded (and searchable) versions of the two indexes of vol. 2 (Liber Extra); one index, the Margarita, is to the decretals, and the other, called Materiae Singulares, is to the Gloss.

Roman law

Oxford University only

• Oxford University e-Journals  [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

Free resources

• Annotated Justinian Code (2nd ed.) by Fred H.Blume (University of Wyoming)
• The Latin Library Ius Romanum
• Leopold-Wenger-Institut fur Antike Rechtsgeschichte und Papyrusforschung
• Projet Volterra - University College, London
• Roman Law Library
• Roman law resources - University of Aberdeen
• Roman law - University of Saarbrucken

View the guide to Roman Law resources in the Bodleian Law Library.

View the guide to English translations of Roman Law sources.

Laws of the ancient Mediterranean civilisations

Free resources

• Ancient History Source Book - legal texts
• Avalon Project at Yale
• Old Babylonian Contracts
• DRANT (DRoits ANTiques)
• Egyptian law (bibliography)
• Glossary of Athenian legal terms
• Law in ancient Egypt
• Legal & Business Documents First dynasty (Nippur)
• Legal & Business Documents First dynasty (Sippar)
• NOMOI - bibliography on ancient Greek law
• Online Library of Liberty: Code of Hammurabi 
• Principle of law & equity in legal discourse (trans. pt. V  H Meyer-Laurin's Gesetz und Billigkeit im antischen Process)
• RIDA - Revue internationale des droits de l'Antiquite (1997-2005) 

Tax Law

Oxford University only

• Oxford tax law site [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
• Tax Analysts & Tax Notes [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
• IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• OECD Model Treaty [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
• International Financial Reporting Standards [P.WORD]
  
  Free resources:
  UK: Accounting Standards Board
• HMRC – library 
• OECD Centre for tax Policy & Administration
• UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters
• World Bank Doing Business Law Library 

Aggregated sites:

• Hieros Gamos
• Findlaw
• Taxsites.com
• Jurist
• Intute (search "tax")
• Wordlii Tax resources

View a powerpoint presentation on tax resources available at OU (2009)