Welcome to your Subject Guide, where you'll find tailored guidance and advice on key library resources.
Legal research database containing international yearbooks and periodicals, US law digests, and decisions of international tribunals and extensive archival collection of academic legal journals, from the first volume to the most recent volume allowed by the publishers (typically 2-5 years ago).
Lexis+ is a comprehensive law database which includes primary law, secondary sources, and practical guidance. It holds current and historic UK and EU legislation and, case law. It includes Halsbury’s Laws of England and many key legal journals and textbooks.
Published by Oxford University Press, Law Trove contains over 200 law textbooks in a wide range of topics.
Sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
The following legal databases provide access to case reports, judgements, digests and comments.
To search a legal database for a report of a case, it is necessary to provide nothing more than the names of the parties. To do this select the cases search form, then enter the names of the parties into the 'case name' search field.
Lexis+ is a comprehensive law database which includes primary law, secondary sources, and practical guidance. It holds current and historic UK and EU legislation and, case law. It includes Halsbury’s Laws of England and many key legal journals and textbooks.
Provides access to up-to-date UK and EU legal material covering primary and secondary legislation, case law, law reports, UK law journals and commentary. Note: To access this resource you will need to register on first sign-up. We recommend using your Roehampton email address.
Published by Oxford University Press, Law Trove contains over 200 law textbooks in a wide range of topics.
Most Law books are shelved on the 1st Floor of the library at shelfmarks 340-349. You can find the shelfmark number on the spine of each book. Below is a brief guide to the main shelfmarks for UK Law:
Administrative Law 342.41 |
Equity 344.10604 |
Commercial Law 346.4107/346.4207 |
Ethics 170’s |
Company Law 346.41066/346.42066 |
EU Law 341.2422 |
Constitutional Law 342.41 |
Family Law 346.42015 |
Contract Law 346.4202 |
Human Rights Law 341.48 |
Criminal Law 345.42 |
Medical Law 344.41041 |
Criminology 364 |
Property Law 346.4204 |
Employment Law 344.4101 |
Tort Law 346.4203 |
Environmental Law 344.41046 |
Trust Law 344.42004/42059 |
Lexis+ is a comprehensive law database which includes primary law, secondary sources, and practical guidance. It holds current and historic UK and EU legislation and, case law. It includes Halsbury’s Laws of England and many key legal journals and textbooks.
Provides access to up-to-date UK and EU legal material covering primary and secondary legislation, case law, law reports, UK law journals and commentary. Note: To access this resource you will need to register on first sign-up. We recommend using your Roehampton email address.
Legal research database containing international yearbooks and periodicals, US law digests, and decisions of international tribunals and extensive archival collection of academic legal journals, from the first volume to the most recent volume allowed by the publishers (typically 2-5 years ago).
Over 500 full text journals covering arts, social sciences (especially media studies), humanities and life sciences.
Contents of 142 Oxford University Press Journals from their first issue to 1995.
A multidisciplinary collection of online resources (including over 1500 journals published by Wiley) covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
These databases may contain records of articles published elsewhere. You may be able to access these articles by clicking the Full Text Finder button, provided we have a subscription to the journal they are in.
National thesis service provided by the British Library which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK's doctoral theses. NOTE: EthOS is currently unavailable due to ongoing issues following a serious cyber security incident at the BL (January 2024).
EBSCO Open Dissertations is an online thesis and dissertation database with access to over 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations worldwide.