Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) Project

The Lee Quo Wei Law Library has recently added the following resource to the International Law webpage under the Selected Internet Resources.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) Project (http://iachr.lls.edu/database)

This freely-available database produced by the editors and staff of the IACHR Project under the supervision of Professor Cesare Romano allows users to search Inter-American Court decisions by case name, country, and topic. Advanced search features include the ability to search by specific violation of various Inter-American Conventions.

Kluwer Competition Law Online

The library has newly subscribed to the database Kluwer Competition Law Online. Kluwer Competition Law is an online resource for EU and international competition law including books and journals. 

It provides the following contents:

• Practice Tools: European Cartel Digest Precedent Finder
• Categories:  81 Jurisdictions, 72 countries under  e-Competitions, Antitrust,  Cartels, Mergers, State Aid, Liberalisation, Chinese Competition Decision Summaries
• Books: 88 E-books & reports
• Journals: 3 e-journals (Common Market Law Review , Legal Issues of Economic Integration and World Competition Law and Economic Review)
• All News
• Blog

You can access Kluwer Competition Law Online at the Law Database List 

http://lib.cuhk.edu.hk/Common/DataForm/DataForm.jsp?DFid=9&Charset=iso-8859-1&SubjectId=31

Faculty of Law Legal Citation Style Guide (Version 18 (October 2014))

The Lee Quo Wei Law Library has updated the Faculty of Law Legal Citation Style Guide on its website under the heading Information Guides & Subject Guides. The latest version is the Version 18 (October 2014).

This guide outlines citation style for commonly used legal resources. A list of further readings is provided at the end of this guide.

Version 18 has updated the edition information of the following publication under the heading “Further Readings”:

Citation Formats Committee of the AALL Universal Citation Guide (3rd ed) Buffalo

NY, Hein 2014

Also available online to Version 2.1:

http://www.aallnet.org/Documents/Publications/ucg

The print copies of this guide are also available at the Lee Quo Wei Law Library and the Legal Resources Centre in the Graduate Law Centre.

Electronic version is available on the Lee Quo Wei Law Library website as well as the CUHK Honesty in Academic Work website.

•  Lee Quo Wei Law Library website: http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/Common/Reader/News/ShowNews.jsp?Nid=11254&Pid=43&Version=0&Cid=630&Charset=iso-8859-1&p=0

• Honesty in Academic Work: A Guide for Students and Teachers, Section 3-4 : Information for Each Discipline – Law:  http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/Eng_htm_files_(2013-14)/p03_4_4a.htm 
  

openlaws

The Lee Quo Wei Law Library will add the following resource to the European Communities webpage under the Selected Internet Resources.

openlaws (http://www.openlaws.eu/ )

openlaws  contains legislation, case law, legal literature and legal experts information  – both on a national and a European level . The openlaws Internet platform is based on open data, open innovation and open source software. This means that openlaws integrates legal communities and IT communities in the design and in the operation of the system. openlaws.eu is co-funded by the European Union / DG Justice.

New Additions to the Law Firm Pamphlet Collection

The Lee Quo Wei Law Library established the Law Firm Pamphlet Collection in 2008 to help students to know more about the law firms in Hong Kong and this Collection is also helpful for their career development. This Collection consists of up-to-date brochures or pamphlets of around 70 local and international law firms in Hong Kong.  This Collection is accessible at both of our service points:  the Lee Quo Weil Law Library at the CUHK Shatin main campus and the Legal Resources Centre at Admiralty.

Law Firm Pamphlet Collection at the Legal Resources Centre

Law Firm Pamphlet Collection at the Lee Quo Wei Law Library

We have received the updated pamphlets of the following law firms and have added them to this Collection.

Z691.B5778 T44
Bird & Bird (Firm)
There are law firms & there's Bird & Bird.
[England] : Bird & Bird LLP

Z691.C439 F86 2014
Charltons (Firm)
Funds practice.
Hong Kong : Charltons, [2014]

Z691.C5455 C543
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.
Cleary Gottlieb : training as a solicitor.
New York : Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP

Z691.C67 X53 2014
Conyers Dill & Pearman.
Conyers Dill & Pearman : 香港办事处.
香港 : Conyers Dill & Pearman, [2014]

Z691.D39 A85
Davis, Polk & Wardwell.
Asia practice.
Hong Kong : Davis Polk