Library Research Guides: Open access resources: Law

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FindLaw
Provides legal information, lawyer profiles and a community to help you make the best legal decisions.

Foolkit for lawyers
"I originally wrote Foolkit for use in my own law firm. My aim was to put all the practical resources of the internet in the one place, so that they would be at everyone's fingertips. I wanted to make it easier for everyone to find things without wasting time hunting around each time." - Andrew Rogers LL.B. Lawyer and Founder of Foolkit

Queensland Legislation
The Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel (OQPC) is responsible for drafting all Queensland Acts, and subordinate legislation made under Queensland Acts. In addition to its legislative drafting and advisory role, OQPC is responsible for preparing reprints (consolidated versions) of Queensland legislation. OQPC also produces other publications containing information about legislation.

Federal Register of Legislation
The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them. The Legislation Register is managed by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel in accordance with the Legislation Act 2003.

AustLII
AustLII is Australia's most popular online free-access resource for Australian legal information, serving the needs of a multitude of users with over 700,000 hits daily. AustLII is a joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.

Open Access Journals

Bond Law Review
The Bond Law Review is an open access, double blind peer reviewed journal that publishes articles, features, comments and notes on the whole spectrum of legal topics and issues.
Legal Education Review
The Legal Education Review (LER) is an independent, open access and refereed journal. Its objectives are to encourage and disseminate research into legal education and to stimulate discussion debate and experimentation on topics related to legal education.
Australian Journal of Clinical Education
The Australian Journal of Clinical Education (AJCE) is an open access double blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to issues of practice and innovation in clinical education across the two disciplines of Law and Health.

Bond University Open Access Textbook

Svantesson on the Law of Obligations
4th edition (Revised)
Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

Svantesson on the Law of Obligations provides an accessible, yet comprehensive, overview of how the rules of common law and equity, together with the provisions of applicable legislation such as the Australian Consumer Law, the Fair Trading Acts, and the Sale of Goods Acts, affect contractual and other obligations. The material dealt with is approached from an Australian perspective.
The Law Clinic Experience: A Guidebook for Students
Francina Cantatore

This book aims to equip law clinic students with useful knowledge, skills, tips and know-how to make the most of their law clinic experience and how to develop important employability skills for future success, whether in the legal profession or related pursuits. By sharing professional and industry insights such as best practices and research results on the positive effects of practice-based learning techniques demonstrated by law students, the book aims to inform and benefit law students at any point of their clinic journey, irrespective of the type of clinical experience they engage in.

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