The Library

The University Library is open 24/7 and provides a range of study spaces and information resources. The printed law collection is available on the 4th floor of the library, and many law books and journals are also available online. The library’s Subject Guide for Law provide guides to law books, journals, databases and training materials, including Doing Legal Research, Introduction to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism online training modules. At the start of your course, the Academic Support Librarian for Law will introduce you to the library and law databases, and they are also available to help you with any library, legal research or referencing questions during your studies.

Before you start your studies please take the opportunity to visit the Library, which is very near to the Warwick Law School, and familiarise yourself with the Library website. More information for new students is available on our Get Started webppages. Our Help Desk staff will also be happy to advise you any time between 08.30am-09.30pm, and you can contact the Library at any time by email: Library@warwick.ac.uk.

We hope you will enjoy your introduction to the University of Warwick!

Summer reading

There is no need to conduct extensive reading before beginning your course, but you may wish to look at the following examples of texts that are relevant to your studies. Advanced Legal Studies students: Please refer to the suggested reading of our specialised LLM programmes below in light of your academic interest.

International Corporate Governance & Financial Regulation students: Howard Davies, The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame? (Cambridge Polity Press, 2010)

International Economic Law students:Sol Picciotto, Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011) - Chapter One

International Economic Law students: Julio Faundez 'International Economic Law and Development: Before and After Neoliberalism', in Julio Faundez and Celine Tan (eds.), International Economic Law, Globalization and Developing Countries(Edward Elgar, 2012)

International Commercial Law students: Kronke & McKendrick, Transnational Commercial Law (2nd edition) (Oxford University Press, 2015) - Chapter One

International Development Law & Human Rights students: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (London Bloomsbury, 1997)

International Development Law & Human Rights students: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe (London: Seagull Books, 2016)

The books below may be of interest to you as additional reading:

Reuven Avi-Yonah, Advanced Introduction to International Tax Law (Cheltenham, Elgar, 2019)

Giuditta Cordero-Moss, International Commercial Contracts: Applicable Sources and Enforceability (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Orsolya Toth, The Lex Mercatoria in Theory and Practice (OUP, 2017)

Gerber, D.J., Global Competition: Law, Markets, and Globalisation (OUP, 2010)

Fox, E.M and M. Bakhoum, Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (OUP, 2019)

What books should I buy?

The Library stocks all books on your module reading lists. Library books are available to borrow, including ebooks and/or short loans for key titles. You will be told what to read early in your module, and you are advised not to purchase any books until you have received advice from your module teacher.

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