This guide gathers key resources in regards to legislation and related research available through the Libraries' subscriptions or via open access, with a focus on major jurisdictions relevant to the research needs of HKU law students and researchers.
All legislative materials are held in the Primary Materials Collection on 2/F of the Law Library, with a call number prefix PR.
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Westlaw Edge UK is a dynamic, ever-growing and easily searchable source of case law, legislation, news, legal journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials.
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Westlaw Asia is an online legal research service which provides worldwide legal and regulatory information. The collection includes case law, legislation, treaties, law reviews, journals, news and directories from Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, etc. Access path: Content Type > Legislation
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Westlaw Classic
Access path: Browse > "All Content" tab > Regulations / Statutes & Court Rules
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PrimeLaw
Access path: Select "PrimeLaw" > HK/Mainland Legislation
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Foreign Law Guide is an essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation. Legislation sources cover approximately 190 jurisdictions.
Access path: Jurisdictions are listed from A to Z under the header “Jurisdictions”. |
These databases provide abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. It also offers full text versions of over 1,000 journals with many dating back to the 1990s. Here you may also find coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
Elgaronline provides scholarly research monographs, handbooks, companions, dictionaries and encyclopedias across the topics of Law, Business & Management, Economics and Social & Political Science.
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HeinOnline provides online access to full texts, legal journals, rare out-of-print collections and has the feature to convert back issues of indexed legal journals into a searchable electronic format. Established by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
Provides access to law reports, journal articles and texts on the area of Arbitration, Competition, Construction, Financial Crime, Insurance, Re-insurance, Intellectual Property, Maritime & Commercial Law, and Professional Negligence. Key titles included: Lloyds Law Reports, Lloyd's Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, Building Law Reports.
Full text of journals from Kluwer Law International. Includes searchable tables of contents and abstracts.
Contains journals published by the Oxford University Press, with 28 law related journal titles included within the Oxford Journals Law Collection.
This database includes periodicals and newspapers articles from over 5,000 publications, with many in full text. It comprises of various databases.
Contains a searchable collection of more than 28,000 Chinese electronic books published in China since 2000.
The China Academic Journals full-text database (also known as CNKI) is the largest Chinese journals database in the world that is continuously updated. It supplies full-text articles from over 2000 Chinese journals.
Airiti Library is a search platform, combining academic resources from both Taiwan and Mainland China. Featuring full-text scholarly content, containing over 1800 Law resources.
also in Westlaw > UK > UK Journals > Abstracted Articles
coverage from 1991-April 2006 only
This database indexes articles from financial journals published in the United Kingdom covering insurance, pension and banking, and financial services law. More than 40 journals from the United Kingdom are covered within this resource.
also in Westlaw > UK > UK Journals > Abstracted Articles
This database indexes articles from legal journals published in the United Kingdom and Europe. Such journals cover topics pertaining to the laws of the European Community and of its Member States. More than 430 United Kingdom and English language journals are covered.
The IFLP provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law, including comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law. Coverage begins from 1985 and includes journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks and book reviews.
Available in Ebsco host covering more than 760 law reviews and monographs. This database provides indexing of sources as far back as August 1981 and allows searchable access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, bar association journals, and university and government publications from the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Available in HeinOnline with five, ten, and thirty-year cumulations since 1958.
Contains an index of academic articles published in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore starting from 1970 with some titles allowing for full text access.
This site is part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) which offers a searchable database of published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to research in various area of law.
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The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit platform as to where you can gain access to worldwide law, including case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports and law journals.
Access path: Catalog > All Categories > Legislation
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A Dictionary of Law (Oxford Reference) An authoritative and comprehensive source of jargon-free legal information with entries clearly defining the major terms, concepts, processes, and the organisation of the English legal system.
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