LibGuides: Legal Research Guide: Environmental Law: Finding resources

Recommended Resources

1. Law Trove

This includes: Bell & McGillivray on Environmental Law

Access Law Trove and choose Environment for access

2. Bloomsbury ebooks

Ebook collection: includes books on on Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources Law

3. Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law

12 volume online work with coverage around areas such as water, energy and climate change

If you come across a useful book on environmental law and would like to recommend it to the Library, you can use the Student Book Suggestion Scheme

Law Librarian @ Exeter

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The Library Search services will help you discover books, journals, articles, audio visual material and more on your chosen topic. This is a good place to start when you are beginning to research a topic as you can draw on content from a variety of different sources.

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Key databases for environmental law research

You are likely to use a range of law and non law research databases in order to source information for your environmental law research. Key resources are highlighted here, but do explore the full A-Z Database List to discover all the resources that are available to you.

Go to A-Z List

Law Databases - Find out more about legal databases on the Law Database Guide

Lexis+ UK This link opens in a new window
Oil, Gas & Energy Law (OGEL) portal This link opens in a new window
You will have to identify yourself with your University of Exeter email address for this Journal You will receive a message with instructions that you will have to follow. Please read and follow the instructions in the message you receive from OGEL, especially if you access OGEL when you are not on campus.
Oxford Public International Law This link opens in a new window
Practical Law This link opens in a new window
vLex Justis This link opens in a new window
This is an enhanced replacement for the previous JustisOne database
Westlaw Edge UK This link opens in a new window

Non Law Databases

CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
Web of Science This link opens in a new window

Research Tip

You can browse the large legal databases by topic / subject area to hone in on relevant information. Look out for the Environmental areas in the following databases.

Lexis+ UK This link opens in a new window Online legal research tool offering access to extensive UK and global legal information. It provides full text access to UK, US and international case law, legislation and articles in legal journals, plus an online version of Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents and Halsbury’s Laws of England. Also provides access to Lexis International materials and Practical Guidance - previously available as Lexis PSL.
Practical Law This link opens in a new window Legal know-how, transactional analysis and market intelligence for lawyers. Can be used in conjunction with Westlaw UK, using cross linking between services
Westlaw Edge UK This link opens in a new window Online legal research tool providing full text access to UK, US and international case law, legislation and articles in legal journals, plus the legal journals index and many commentary and looseleaf works, including the Sweet & Maxwell Common Law Library titles.