Academic Subscriptions on Westlaw International Mahendra Chaturvedi Thomson Reuters (Legal) New Delhi

Westlaw Subscribers Government Institutions ( Ministries & Courts) Academic & Research Institutions i) National Law Schools ii) UTD’s iii) Private Law Colleges U.N. Bodies Corporations LPO’s Law Firms & Private Practitioners

Academic Subscriptions WLI General Academic Subscription WLI General Academic Subscription + AllNews (EMEA, Australia, JP, KR, TW) Campus News Campus Journals For further info:

WLI General Academic Subscription Who is likely to subscribe? Universities with a law faculty or strong interest in legal research Law Schools Why? Unparalleled collection of over 900 Legal Journals (both academic and practitioner publications - great resource for international legal topics)) Wide range of books/treatises etc from respected publishers Westlaw puts the law in context – cross linking you to other related cases and secondary materials Citators – KeyCite and UK Case Locator let you know if cases are still good law Westlaw’s Impressive IP collection

Characteristics of General Academic Sub Subscription gives access to the majority of Westlaw’s legal materialslegal materials Students access via IP Authentication link (i.e no password required, log into University Intranet using student ID) Passwords are also issued for a limited period to professors, librarians and selected students for Moot Courts etc.

Main Jurisdictions Covered for Legal Materials Legal materials from: USA EU UK Australia Canada Hong Kong

JurisdictionCasesLegislationJournals Legal Updates Text books Treaties UK Yes IP Australia Yes Canada Yes Hong Kong Yes USA Yes EU Yes Main Legal Content by Jurisdiction

Graphical View of Westlaw Content Note - picture is for illustrative purposes to indicate variety of materials on Westlaw - not to scale

Westlaw Advantage New Directory

Did You Mean ? i) Misspellings of common terms ii) Misspellings of legal terms iii) Terms that are spelled correctly but are used incorrectly in a legal context WESTLAW ADVANTAGE Add Related Terms ; Include relevant synonyms Expand Search: Get more results from related databases

Other ways Westlaw helps improve your research Automatic searching of plurals and possessives Automatic searching of irregular plurals, e.g., child also retrieves children Automatic searching of compound words, e.g., whistle-blower also retrieves whistleblower Automatic equivalents for common misspellings, e.g., judgement also retrieves judgment Automatic searching of all variations of acronyms, e.g., H.I.V. also retrieves HIV, H. I. V. Automatic retrieval of a database when you enter part of a database name or database description

Westlaw Tabbed Research Pages

West reference attorney is available 24/7 West Law Advantage : True copies Westlaw Advantage : Editorial Enhancements i.e. Headnote, Case Synopsis, Statute annotation WESTLAW ADVANTAGES

Journals

Great coverage of international law and law from all jurisdictions - Harvard Law Review - European Competition Law Review - Criminal Law Review - McGill Law Review - Intellectual Property Quarterly - Law Quarterly Review - Melbourne University Law Review - Hong Kong Law Journal Journals

Treatises/Books

Treatises, Commentaries, Encyclopaedia Vast Collection of US titles including : - American Law Reports, - Corpus Juris Secundum & - American Jurisprudence UK collection includes Kerly, Terrel & Copinger IP Commentaries Archibold Criminal Law Palmers Company Law

Browse Treatises Using Table of Contents Search, or browse treatises using table of contents

Legislation

Beyond Legislation – USCA & CFR view section’s history view documents citing this section view graphic view of section history view USCA table of contents view annotations to this section view encyclopaedia discussing this section view citing cases’ view citing journals and treatises view legislative history view federal administrative agency decisions and opinions

Cases

- United Kingdom from United States (Federal & State) from European Union from Australia from Hong Kong from Canada from 1825

Beyond Case Law West’s attorney- editor written headnotes, summaries and KeyNumber taxonomy system allow you to identify and analyse relevant cases quickly and accurately HeadnoteHeadnote KeyNumbersKeyNumbers SynopsisSynopsis

Beyond Case Law Keycite Flags alert you to important citation histories

Legal Developments

Recent Legal Developments - Topical Highlights, Current Awareness & Litigation Monitor Just open the database to view latest developments

News

View a patent’s litigation history in flow chart form Search thousands of newspapers and newswires from around the world simultaneously or individually

Campus News

Characteristics of Campus News Affordable! Access to newspaper archives from around the world Access via IP Authentication only No Passwords issued No legal content included

Campus Journals

Characteristics of Campus Journals Subscription Affordable! Access to the World Journals database (900 Journals) Should not be offered in the first instance - only as a last resort if the institution will not take the full WLI General Academic Subscription package Access by IP Authentication Only Can be sold in conjunction with Campus News

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