Search the library catalogue
To find books, search the Library Catalogue (using the search form below) and include "United Kingdom" as a keyword or see the selected texts below.
Key titles on English legal topics
This book below includes brief introductions to 97 legal topics, with a very useful list of leading texts relevant to each.
Finding English Law: quick access to key titles by Call Number: K 62 EATOPublication Date: HEIN, 2nd ed, 2017
Books on UK Law
The Supreme Court : an analytic history of constitutional decision making by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: Cambridge University Press, 2019
Understanding Legislation: a practical guide to statutory interpretation by Call Number: KL 35.1 A1 LOWEPublication Date: Hart Publishing, 2018.
Human Rights Law in Scotland by Call Number: KM 212 REEDPublication Date: Bloomsbury Professional , 2017.
The Constitution of the United Kingdom: a contextual analysis by Call Number: KM 61 LEYLPublication Date: Bloomsbury, 3rd, 2016
England's Great Transformation: Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: University of Chicago Press, 2016
Find journals
To find journal articles, use the following databases (all are UniMelb access only):
- Westlaw UKWestlaw UK gives you access to vast but easily searchable databases of case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials.
- HeinOnlineHeinOnline is Hein’s premier online research product with millions of pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. The collection features legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries in addition to its vast collection of current day law journals. Each collection can be searched separately, or cross-searched from the HeinOnline homepage.
- Cambridge Core JournalsCambridge University Press currently publishes over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Cambridge Journals Online contain the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas. From September 2016 titles are available via the Cambridge Core platform alongside Cambridge Books, Histories and Companions.
- Lexis Advance US Research (International)Lexis is an online legal research tool which offers US federal public laws and the US Code Service, as well as US state codes, federal and state registers and state constitutions; over 900 full-text US legal journals and law reviews; and the Shepard's Citator service. The database also contains material from over 150 countries.
Find legal histories
Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I, Of the rights of people by Call Number: KL 11 BLACPublication Date: OUP, 2016
Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II, Of the rights of things by Call Number: KL 11 BLACPublication Date: OUP, 2016
- Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English LawThe Selden Society was founded in 1887 to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of English law. The Selden Society researches and studies the history of the law, development of legal ideas, the legal profession, the courts, judges and lawyers, literature and legal records, English common law and the legal system. Provides access to early English legal history manuscripts and yearbooks.
All these resources are UniMelb access only.
- Making of modern law : Legal treatises 1800-1926Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
