The Children's Legal Rights Journal is a quarterly periodical co-edited by the ABA Center on Children and the Law and the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, in cooperation with the National Association of Counsel for Children. The journal focuses on the broad range of legal issues confronting children. Its goal is to provide practitioners in law and related […]
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New Journal: Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal
The Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal has recently published its inaugural edition. The Journal features submissions from undergraduates from the University of Oxford pertaining to the UK jurisdiction: this issue features a diverse array of articles, ranging from deportation to the family home. The journal will be available exclusively online, both on HeinOnline's Law Journal […]
Open Access eBook on Wrongful Dismissal and Employment Law Now Available on CanLII
CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute), Canada's foremost resource of freely-available legal information, and Lancaster House, the respected Canadian law publisher specializing in labour and employment law, have announced their co-operation in a joint project to enhance open access to legal commentary in Canada. For the first time, an electronic text authored by experts in the […]
Free eBooks from CALI’s eLangdell Press and the Legal Information Institute
Sarah Glassmeyer, law librarian and Director of Content Development for CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) reports in recent post on the Law Librarian Blog that CALI’s eLangdell Press has now publsihed the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The ebooks were compiled by the good folks at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell […]
HeinOnline's World Constitutions Illustrated - Update
You may not be aware of how comprehensive HeinOnline's World Consitutions Illustrated service really is. It's much more than just primary source materials. It also includes a large and growing collection (mostly historical) of scholarly monographic texts on constitutional law. With the March release, more than 2,160 books are now available. Here's just a sample […]
Australian Law Dictionary - Online!
The library now has access to the Australian Law Dictionary online -- part of the Oxford University Press "Digital Reference Shelf" service. Access is provided from both the Osgoode and York University e-resources databases. This is a new (2010) publication, edited by Prof. Trischa Mann of the Australian National University. The Australian Law Dictionary is […]
The Trouble with Billionaires
The Trouble with Billionaires, a new book by our own Professor Neil Brooks and Toronto Star columnist Linda McQuaig, has just published by Penguin Canada. In the book, they argue that the growth of an extremely rich elite is damaging to society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. You can […]
From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda
For anyone interested in a sneak preview of this new book edited by Michael Geist, you'll find the introductory chapter available on the Irwin Law website. From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda will be issued by Irwin Law this month and we should have a both a print and […]
Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Vaver
The collection The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver, edited by Catherine W. Ng (Lecturer in Law, University of Aberdeen), Lionel Bentley (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Cambridge University) and our own Prof. Giuseppina D'Agostino, has just been published by Hart Publishing, Oxford. Prof. Vaver, renowned both […]
New Editions of Three Canadian Legal Research & Writing Guides
Catherine Best, research lawyer at Boughton Law in Vancouver, has written an excellent review of the three current leading Canadian texts on legal research and writing. The review is worth reading not only for her clear analysis and constructive comments on the three books, but also for her own insights into best practices for conducting […]