The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently launched a FREE online database on customary international humanitarian law (IHL). This database is an expansion of the 2005 published study of IHL, conducted by ICRC in consultation with experts from around the world. It includes two parts. Part One offers a comprehensive analysis of […]
Electronic Resources
New Internatioinal Law Library on WorldLII
A new International Law Library is now available on WordLII. We missed notifying our community of this when it was launched last September, for which our apologies. The WorldLII International Law Library is the largest and most comprehensive free-access collection of international legal materials on the Web, containing over 80,000 searchable documents. The contents include […]
Quebec Doctrine on LexisNexis Quicklaw
A collection of significant secondary resources on Quebec law is now available on LexisNexis Quicklaw. The Quebec Doctrine collection provides essential secondary materials on Quebec law in French, authored by known legal experts in the areas of civil, employment, criminal, business and public law. Included in the collection are the online versions of leading LexisNexis […]
Faceted Searching Now Available Across All HeinOnline Databases
Hein has just announced that that all the collections in HeinOnline will now return faceted search results -- an enhancement that was first introduced with the Law Journal Library in January of 2010. What are faceted search results? When performing a field search or advanced search in any collection, you will see a menu called "Refine […]
German Law Journal Now on HeinOnline
The German Law Journal is now available on the HeinOnline Law Journals Library. After ten volumes the German Law Journal has secured a place among the world's leading academic fora concerned with transnational law. In 2009 the German Law Journal was ranked as the world's leading "online, peer-reviewed" law journal of any subject matter (for […]
Scottish Legal History Library on HeinOnline
The Osgoode Library now subscribes to the Scottish Legal History library on HeinOnline, featuring publications of the Stair Society in an online searchable format that has never been available before. The initial release of the Scottish Legal History library in HeinOnline includes the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series consisting of 53 volumes (1936-present), each of […]
ResultsPlus on Westlaw Canada
Back in July, Carswell announced the addition of ResultsPlus to Westlaw Canada. ResultsPlus enriches your case law research by recommending analytical material related to your search along with your case law search results. To date ResultsPlus has drawn all its analytical suggestions from one source – the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (CED). The scope of ResultsPlus […]
BestCase Enhancements
The Print, Save and Email functionality on BestCase is being enhanced so users will be able to print, save or email the Hit List (with or without words around hits); print, save or email just the summary/headnote or note up of a case; highlight search terms in the output and select a cover page (with […]
SCC Facta for Upcoming Hearings Now Online
The Fall 2010 session of the Supreme Court of Canada began earlier this week. Not everyone knows that electronic facta filed by the parties in cases before the Supreme Court of Canada are available on the Court’s website. This has been so for cases filed since February 2009. For example, if you want to find […]
Some Recently Released Intellectual Property Resources
Michel-Adrien Sheppard, Reference Librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada, alerted us over on sLaw this week to a couple of newly released intellectual property resources. The first is WIPO Lex a "a one-stop search facility for national laws and treaties on intellectual property (IP) of WIPO, WTO and UN Members." Searches on the texts […]