Using this guide
Navigate through this guide by clicking on the pertinent tab you can see above this box (below the main title of this guide).
Below are links to take you to other Bodleian libguides which may help you with your studies in this area.
Companies & finance: quick start
Halsbury’s Laws of England is the practitioners' encyclopedic guide to current English law, key legislation and case law. Holders of an Oxford SSO can access this entire service in LexisLibrary. The same database has the latest edition of Boyle and Birds' Comany Law.
Westlaw Edge UK has Palmer's Company Law.
Other commentary
A normal SOLO search will discover other e-books available via a number of different platforms. Remote access to those with a green indicator beside the View Online link requires an Oxford SSO. If there is an orange indicator beside the View Online link you will need to come into a Bodleian Reading Room and log onto one of our computers to read that particular title.
The Sainsbury Library at the Said Business School is the key provider for many of these.
-
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)Click on 'Register' to set up an account (please note that only academic staff and postgraduates may register for WRDS access).
This "is a cross-database financial research tool, developed by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Individual accounts for WRDS are available for faculty, doctoral students and research assistants within the University of Oxford, and faculty can request the setup of classroom accounts for teaching purposes. Click on Account Request to request an account setup. Please contact researchsupport@sbs.ox.ac.uk with any enquiries." -
Mergent OnlineRemote access requires an Oxford SSO.
Mergent provides financial details of over 25,000 active and inactive global companies. It also has over 300,000 historical annual reports and executive profiles.
Encyclopedic approach
To learn the current state of English law on any particular subject from print sources, you need to consult
Halsbury’s Laws of England shelved on Floor 2 at KZ 1. Halsbury's is an encyclopedic treatment of English & Welsh laws: the natural first point of reference for the busy practitioner requiring cold start research on an area or a reliable recap with pointers to essential legislation and leading cases. You will find corporate law & finances is spread across more than one main volume of Halsbury - and you ust also use the service volumes which keep track of legal developments since the publication of the main volumes.
Holders of an Oxford Single Sign On are reminded that LexisLibrary includes all the Halsbury services - much more straightforward to use!
Printed resources
General overviews of English corporation/company law have shelf marks starting KN261. Use Books page. in this Libguide for more information about the shelf layout.
For general works, use the Subject Search Corporation law + the name of a jurisdiction
Law Library: Reserve Collection
When you search SOLO for texts you may find - especially if the text is the main or major recommended title on a Reading List - that the location is shown as "Law Library Reserve Collection." Armed with your University Card/Reader's Ticket, please ask for these books from staff at the Enquiry desk in the main Reading Room (Level 2) and they will be issued to you for use in the Library. Some examples are below:
-
Corporate Finance Law by Call Number: Law Reserve KN250.GUL 2015ISBN: 1849466009Publication Date: (2nd edn 2015) -
Gower's principles of modern company law.Call Number: Law Reserve Collection KN261.GOW 2016ISBN: 0414056264Publication Date: (10th ed, 2016) -
Sealy and Worthington's cases and materials in company lawCall Number: Law Reserve Collection KN261.SEA 2016ISBN: 0198722052Publication Date: (11th ed, 2016)
Law Bod Staff
