This completely revised and updated edition of the authoritative Ledocte Legal Dictionary explains approximately 25,000 legal terms and expressions in four languages: Dutch, French, English, and German. It also contains registers of the lemmas in French, English, and German.
Portal for (mainly) Dutch law containing free legal sources as well as content from the following Dutch publishers: Ars Aequi, Boom Juridische uitgevers, Kluwer, Paris and SDU.
At the start of their first academic year law faculty students will receive a visitors card for the Maastricht University Library as well as an UM-account to get access to their electronic sources, even from home. The UM-card and the UM-account remain valid as long as these students are connected to Hasselt University.
More information about the UM-card can be found on https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/file/3484/download?token=QMtrRyRl (pdf). In case of problems with your UM-account, it is best to contact the ICTS-servicedesk of Maastricht University (Servicedesk-ICTS@maastrichtuniversity.nl(link sends e-mail) or 0031 (0)43 388 5555). In order to reset your UM-account, you will need to add a copy of your identity card.
The database Legal Source provides full-text coverage of the world's most respected scholarly law journals. The collection offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, organized crime, medical law, labor and human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more.
Legidex is a database and navigation tool that uses powerful artificial intelligence to gain access to the content of Belgian and European legislation and jurisprudence. This is done in a very simple and intuitive way.
Legifrance is the French government entity responsible for publishing legal texts online.
It provides access, in French, to laws and decrees published in the Journal officiel, important court rulings, collective labour agreements, standards issued by European institutions, and international treaties and agreements to which France is a party.
Legislation.gov.uk carries most (but not all) types of UK legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents. The website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government.
This database offers access to French legislation, French case law decisions and French jurisprudence (among others: +60 JurisClasseur encyclopaedias, +35 legal journals, +50 Codes, etc.).
Attention!
Please note that access to this resource is dual authenticated. You must be on the IP range of Hasselt University (so work off campus through VPN or via the proxy-link on the library website) AND you need a personal username and password, which you create yourself.
Instructions to create a personal username and password:
- On the Lexis 360 homepage, click on the button "Se connecter".
- On the right side of the page under "Première visite?", click on the button "Créer votre compte".
- Follow the instructions to create your personal username and password. NB: when asked to input your email address, this MUST be your UHasselt email address.
- On second and subsequent visits, simply input your username and password.
With the search platform LIMO you can query all KU Leuven collections, plus the collections of other LIBISnet-libraries. With one query you can search for and in a variety of document materials: printed and electronic books and journals, audiovisual materials, digital files and other types of sources. All search results are presented in one integrated list, as a default ordered by relevance. Via the filter facets on the left hand column you can refine your search results (e.g. limit to KU Leuven libraries).
Students industrial engineering have to log in with their KU Leuven username and password to get access to the e-resources of LIMO.
