From Louis Mirando

Blog posts from former chief law librarian Louis Mirando

New Enhancements to QuickCITE

There are two recent enhancements to Quicklaw's QuickCITE case law citator which deserve you attention. QuickCITE is the essential research tool that allows you to determine the history, status and importance of a case. First, LexisNexis Canada has added commentary references to QuickCITE. Researchers will be able to learn whether a case has been considered […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rough Concensus and Running Code

Prof. Peer Zumbansen and his colleague, Prof. Gralf-Peter Calliess of the Faculty of Law of the Universität Bremen, have recently published Rough Concensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law with Hart Publishing. "Rough Consensus & Running Code is a provocative and important book. Thinking about law often is based on the assumption […]