E 92 M544 2009 Title: Compact, contract, covenant : Aboriginal treaty-making in Canada / J.R. Miller. Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009. Description: xiv, 379 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Subject: Indians of North America--Canada--Treaties--History. Subject: Indigenous peoples--Canada--Treaties--History. Subject: Indians of North America--Canada--Government relations. Subject: Indigenous peoples--Canada--Government relations. HG […]
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Two New Constitutional Electronic Resources Available
There are two new electronic resources available providing access to the constitutions of the countries of the world and the constitutions of dependencies and territories: Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online This database provides access to 188 country constitutions with expert commentary from leading scholars worldwide. It includes English translations and the ability to […]
July 13 - July 17, 2009
DS 557.8 M9 I53 1998 Title: Individual and collective responsibility / edited by Peter A. French. Publisher: Rochester, Vt. : Schenkman Books, c1998. Description: xii, 297 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968. Subject: War crimes. FC 133 V67 1970 Title: Oeuvres politiques (extraits) / Denis Benjamin Viger. Publisher: Montreal, Une Réalisation […]
International Free and Open Source Software Law Review
This is a new legal journal recently launched by members of the European Legal Network. The journal will provide "analysis and comment on all aspects of Free and Open Source software." "Free and Open Source Software has increasingly come to challenge traditional concepts of intellectual property and collaboration by allowing every user to use, study, […]
July 6 - July 10, 2009
BX 5056 T53 2008 Title: A Protestant purgatory : theological origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779 / Laurie Throness. Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2008. Description: vi, 379 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Church of England--Influence. Subject: Church of England--Doctrines. Subject: Christianity and law--Church of England. Subject: Protestant churches--Doctrines. Subject: […]
Digitization of Publications Relating to the Parliament of Canada
This report describes the digitization efforts of the Library of Parliamentary and was recently posted to their web site and blogged about yesterday by "Library Boy" (aka Michel-Adrien Sheppard, Supreme Court Reference Librarian). "The goal [of the working paper] is to help inform the development of a coherent strategy amongst the various stakeholders to digitize, […]
June 29 - July 3, 2009
BL 2747.8 S345 2009 Title: Secularism, religion and multicultural citizenship / [edited by] Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood ; foreword by Charles Taylor. Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Description: xxiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Secularism. Subject: Multiculturalism. Subject: Religious pluralism. Subject: Islam--Relations. DH 566 […]
June 22 - 26, 2009
E 277 M37 1783 Title: The case and claim of the American loyalists impartially stated and considered. Publisher: [S.l. : s.n., 1783?] Description: 38 p. ; 22 x 29 cm. Subject: American loyalists. Subject: United States--Politics and government--1775-1783. FC 469 A5 M53 1774 Title: Lettre adressée aux habitans de la province de Quebec, ci-devant le […]
Legal Information Archive Chesapeake Pilot Project Report
The Chesapeake Project, a two-year pilot project begun in early 2007, has been completed and the final evaluation report has been released. This was a collaborative project initiated by the Georgetown Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia. The goal of the Chesapeake Project was to explore the preservation of "born-digital […]
June 15 - 19, 2009
K 639 L54 2008 Title: Deprivation of liberty of children in light of international human rights law and standards / Ton Liefaard. Publisher: Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, c2008. Description: xxx, 696 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) Subject: Children's rights. Subject: Children's rights--Netherlands. Subject: Children (International law) […]