Our provincial election is coming up, but I’m sure that many of us are still scratching our heads and wondering which way to send our vote. As established by Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it is our right as citizens to vote in federal and provincial elections, and it is […]
From Jordan Patterson
Glanvill's Tractatus: The First Treatise on English Law (ca 1188, First Print Ed 1554)
Glanvill, Ranulf de, 1130-1190. Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie. Londini : In aedibus Richardi Totteli, 1554. [1st edition]. ― Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae. Londini : postant venales apud J. White et E. Brooke, 1780. [3rd edition]. “Here begins the treatise on the laws and customs of the realm of England, composed […]
Size Matters
Over the past few months, members of the law library staff, myself included, have been preparing to reorganize our special collections. Now, as all savvy library users know, libraries generally organize their collections and shelve their books by subject. You’re all familiar with the Library of Congress classification system, used in academic libraries throughout the English-speaking […]
A Distinguished Doodle - and How to Catalogue It
After I wrote my previous post on finding those two books containing Sir John A. MacDonald’s autographs, I remembered another discovery of mine. I found this friendly fellow – with excellent hipster facial hair, I might add – as I was recataloguing books the other day. He looks to me like he belongs in one […]
Well my day just became much more interesting…
Which is not to say I do not normally enjoy my job, because I do. I consider myself a bookish fellow, so to come to the library and work all day in a room full of old leather-bound volumes hardly even feels like work at all... okay, it feels a little like work. But as […]
The Law It Self: Sir Edward Coke and his Lasting Authority
Bacon and Shakespeare: what they were to philosophy and literature, Coke was to the common law. – J.H. Baker The Osgoode Library has recently been the recipient of an important donation from Fraser Laschinger, Osgoode ’73: a copy of the 12th edition of Sir Edward Coke’s famous commentary on Sir Thomas Littleton’s Institutes of the […]
Library of Parliament/Bibliothèque du Parliament Special Collection at Osgoode
Today’s post highlights a special collection within our Special Collections, a sub-special collection if you will. Can you guess why all of these books, sitting pretty in the Canada Law Book Rare Book Room (and not including those under that forbidding red squiggle), are related to each other and/or why they’re noteworthy? If you can’t […]