This document provides an introduction to research resources for corporate law. It outlines key print and electronic resources for UK corporate law, including digests, legislation, case law databases, journals, and blogs. It describes Halsbury's Laws, The Digest, and Halsbury's Statutes as invaluable starting points. LexisLibrary, Westlaw, and other databases contain UK and international corporate cases, legislation, and materials. Books and looseleaf publications cover topics like companies, banking, and finance. Subject reports and journals round out research sources.

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