As a final flourish to what has been an outstanding 2012, we have awakened from our holiday slumber to toot our own horn a little bit - as the freshly minted winners of a 2012 Clawbie for Best Law Library Blog! You can read the full list of winners here, but here's what they had […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Major Enhancement to SCC Judgments Website
The Supreme Court of Canada and Lexum are proud to announce that the Court’s judgments website now contains all decisions back to 1907. Moreover, all the PDF versions of decisions up to 2010 are identical to the official version available in the Supreme Court Reports. This major content addition has been made possible thanks to […]
It's that time of year...
It's that time of year when you can't possibly imagine another summary, another all-nighter, another minute of the at-times-crushing weight of expectation that accompanies the exam period. While it's probably the absolute last thing you want to hear (and have probably heard it a million times already anyway), as somebody who has done it relatively […]
Law and Order: Overthought
I'm sure that pretty much all denizens of law schools have, at some point watched at least one episode of Law and Order (or its many, many spin-offs) and, in all likelihood, groaned at some point. While it's undeniably entertaining, it is also frequently larded with clichés, improbabilities, bad law, and an overly Manichean outlook. After twenty years and […]