Pacific Islands: legal resources   Tags: electronic legal resources, legal resources  

Printed Resources

Jurisdictions

The New Zealand collection is on the main Reading Room Floor.

The LawBod's collections of printed resources for independent Pacific Islands (other than New Zealand) can be found, shelved alphabetically by the name of the country (among other countries), on the Lower Floor (near the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer IT Room) of the LawBod.

Depth of coverage varies considerably: you may well discover that for some countries the collection has an historic rather than a current emphasis.

Each country's material follows the same arrangement - legislation, case law, journals, texts and monographs - in some cases hypothetically only as we do not necessarily have all forms of literature for all countries!

Printed works which deal with more than one jurisdiction (eg comparative studies) are in a separate section of the LawBod with shelf marks starting General. They are shelved on the main Reading Room Floor, in the Wing past the Photocopying Room. If all the islands are part of The Commonwealth then you might be directed to a shelf mark Cw Gen - this is in the main Reading Room, immediately before Australia.

International Law Dimensions

Subject search the catalogue using for example: "Self-determination, National", "Non-self-governing territories", "mandates", "international trusteeships", "Human Rights," "Environmental law,"  "Fishing Law" etc.  Shelfmarks beginning Internat  are on the Upper Gallery Wing.

SOLO searches may also reveal useful material in these two libraries: