Presentation given to new students October 2010

1. Introducing Corporate Law
Research Resources
Ruth Bird 2010

2. Outline
 Starting points
 Key electronic resources –
databases, e-books
 Books & looseleafs
 Journals
 Law reports
 Blogs
 Research Guides

3. Where to start?
Three invaluable reference sources
1. An overview of the law – caselaw & legislation
Halsbury’s Laws of England:
Companies v. 7, v. 14 5th ed
Corporations v. 9
Financial Services v.18 4th ed, v.48 5th ed
2. A digest of the key cases
The Digest – uses same subject headings as Halsbury’s
Laws
3. Collection of key legislation by topic
Halsbury’s Statutes - uses same subject headings as
Halsbury’s Laws

4. Key e-resources
 Lexis@library
 Westlaw
 Justis
 Doing Business
 Eisil
 International Financial Reporting Standards
 Lawtel
 Linexlegal
 Oxford Scholarship Online
 SOLO – for the library catalogue

5. Lexis – company and corporate
resources

6. Lexis Financial services

7. A list of key UK resources on Lexis
 Butterworths Company Law Cases
 Finance Acts 2010
 Finance Acts Archive
 Finance Bills 2010
 Finance Bills Archive
 FSA Handbook: Authorisation
 FSA Handbook: Client Assets
 FSA Handbook: Compensation
 FSA Handbook: Complaints against the FSA
 FSA Handbook: Listing Rules
 FSA Handbooks Archive: Collective Investment Sc...
 Journal of International Banking & Financial Law
 Tolley's Company Law Service

8. Search other jurisdictions using
keywords

9. Lexis - Browse by format

10. Westlaw – search acts

11. Westlaw – case analysis

12. Westlaw – news sources

13. Westlaw – searching in other
countries

14. Westlaw – International lists other
jurisdictions

15. Justis – select by type of material
being searched

16. Doing Business Law library - World Bank

18. Eisil – international primary
sources

19. Eg, Finance & Banking

20. International Financial Reporting
Standards

21. Login ruth.bird@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Password - oxford

22. Lawtel – for updates as well as
cases etc

23. Linex Legal – newsletters from law
firms on topics

24. Oxford scholarship online books–
company & commercial

25. UK official site for legislation

26. Search on SOLO by topic

27. Book resources
 Browse the shelves from KN 261 to KN 310
 Some key titles:
 Ferran: Principles of corporate finance law KN250.FER 2008
 Kraakman: The anatomy of corporate law – Law Reserve
 Palmers Company Law KN 261 PAL
 Buckley on the Companies Act KN261 BUC
 Butterworths Corporations Law KN261 BUT
 Gore-Browne on Companies KN 261 GOR
 B/W Encyclopaedia of Banking Law KN303 BAN
 B/W Financial Regulation KN 304.95 BUT
 Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Law KN 308 ENC
 Hannigan and Prentice: the Companies act KN261.HAN 2007
 Gower and Davies’ Principles of Modern Company – Law Reserve
 Hughes: Legal principles in banking and structured finance KN300.HUG
 Goode on legal problems of credit and security KN306.9.GOO 2008
 Fuller: Corporate borrowing : law and practice KN305.2.FUL 2009
 Hale: Private equity KN263.3.HAL 2007

28. Selected Journals
 Australian business law review + e
 Business law international + e
 European company and financial law review + e
 International and comparative corporate law journal + e
 International journal of banking, accounting and finance
 International journal of disclosure and governance + e
 Journal of corporate law studies + e
 Journal of international banking law and regulation +e
 Law and financial markets review + e
 Law business review
 Stanford journal of law, business & finance [electronic resource]

29. Selected Subject Reports
 Business law reports.
 Commercial law reports.
 Butterworths Company law cases
 Lloyds law reports
 Commercial law cases.
 Reports of commercial cases.
 The Times law reports (and commercial cases)
 All ER Commercial cases
 British Company Cases

30. The Law Library’s law
Reports & Journals
database enables you
to locate the database
where a law report
series or a journal can
be found
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.
uk/law/collections/lawrepo
rts_and_journals

31. Blogs
 Corporate Finance Law Blog http://www.corpfinblog.com/
 Corporate Law & Governance
http://corporatelawandgovernance.blogspot.com/
 Corporations Law Blog
http://www.lexisnexis.com.au/blogs/corporations-
law/default.aspx
 Banking law Prof Blog http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/banking/
 Insolvency Law Forum
http://www.insolvencylawforum.co.uk/
 Securities Law Prof Blog
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/securities/2010/10/sec-cftc-
announce-roundtable-on-clearing-of-credit-default-swaps.html
 M&A Law Prof blog
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mergers/private_equity/
 Private Equity Fund Law blog
http://www.privateequityfundblog.com/

32. Selected Research Guides
 US:
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/corporatelaw.cfm
http://guides.library.yale.edu/corporations
 Canada
http://library.osgoode.yorku.ca/documents/corporatelaw.1.
pdf
 Australia:
Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation
http://cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au/
History of Australian Corporate law
http://cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/history-of-australian-
corporate-law-/index.cfm
Libguide:
http://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/content.php?pid=32702&s
id=549065