Treatises are scholarly works that provide comprehensive treatment of a single, broad subject. Practice guides are more practitioner-oriented and often focus on narrower topics. The left-hand column below contains a selection of leading treatises and practice guides offering in-depth coverage of UK legal topics. See the right-hand column below for tips on how to locate additional resources.
Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (23rd ed.)
Competition Law (10th ed.)
Copinger and Skone James on Copyright (18th ed.)
Corporate Acquisitions and Mergers in the UK (2nd ed.)
Financial Markets and Exchanges Law (2nd ed.)
Holyoak & Torremans Intellectual Property Law (6th ed.)
Insurance Law: Doctrines & Principles (3rd ed.)
The Law on Financial Derivatives (6th ed.)
Market Abuse Regulation (3rd ed.)
Mayson, French & Ryan on Company Law (29th ed.)
Principles of Banking Law (3rd ed.)
Williams & Baker: Treatise of Criminal Law (5th Edition)Lexis and Westlaw each offer a limited selection of treatises on UK law to their U.S. academic subscribers:
Finding English Law (2d ed.)To locate addition materials on a particular aspect of UK law from the Georgetown Law Library's collection, use the Advanced Search and select Law Library Catalog.
For greater precision, select Subject as the search field in the first line and enter Great Britain as an exact phrase. In the second line, select Title as the search field or use the default Any Field setting. Enter a keyword or exact phrase in the search box. For example:
