Designed as an easy-to-use online reference tool, the European industrial relations dictionary is a comprehensive collection of the most commonly used terms in employment and industrial relations at EU level today. It contains over 330 alphabetically listed entries, featuring concise definitions and relevant contextual information, with hyperlinks to EU legislation and case law.
Category Archives: Resources
iCourts – Case law finder
iCourts, the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts, is a new research centre dedicated to the study of international courts, their role in a globalising legal order and their impact on politics and society.
Free access to lectures at an elite French institution
The Collège de France, a unique higher education and research institution in Paris, makes available a wide range of video and audio recordings on its website.
More than 100 new monolingual, bilingual & multilingual glossaries
The Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament has just updated its database of glossary links, with access to around 100 new glossaries.
Great basic patents glossary (in English)… and more
Earlier this week, the BBC published this glossary in English: Patents: A beginner’s guide to intellectual property. The article was written with help from Jonathan Radcliffe, an intellectual property lawyer at Mayer Brown, and Professor Andrea Matwyshyn from Wharton School’s Legal Studies and Business Ethics department at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chinese legal information
The Special Libraries Association Legal Division website includes a list of legal resources relating to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Trading jargon in simple terms
Following on from Monday’s post on Parmesan as collateral, I came across this excellent article which gives some crystal clear explanations of common financial jargon currently being bandied about.
Fantastic resource – legal information on Vietnam
I recently came across this paper on Open Access to Official and Authenticated Legal Information in Vietnam by Le Thi Hanh at Hanoi Law University. It is part of the forthcoming IFLA World Library and Information Congress to be held in Singapore.
Waterlex, Fishlex & FAOlex
As it’s very hot over here in Europe, I thought a watery post might be in order…
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Legal drafting bibliography (US English)
The United States Law Library of Congress has recently published a bibliography of books that can help beginners with legal drafting. The list includes:
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