More great news from CanLII: Fans of the Best Guide Guide to Canadian Legal Research will be pleased to know that the site is now being hosted and updated by CanLII. The Best Guide has been freely available on the Internet since 1998. The original author and publisher was Catherine Best. The site grew out […]
From Louis Mirando
Historical NS Hansards Now Online
All of the available early debates and proceedings (Hansard) of the of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the period 1868-1993 are now online on the Legislature’s website. The production and posting of these materials was a project of the NS Legislative Library. This gives Nova Scotians and everyone access to the historical debates […]
LégisQuébec Collection of Quebec Statutes and Regulations Now Available Free
LégisQuébec, the website that contains the official versions of Quebec laws and regulations and which used to require a subscription to access, is now available free on the web. Of course, the site is available in both French and English versions. Documents are available in HTML, PDF or EPUB formats. LégisQuébec is produced and made […]
Legal Resources on the Brexit
The United Kingdom European Union Membership Referendum, also known as the EU referendum or Brexit referendum (because of the potential exit of Britain from the EU), is a plebiscite scheduled to take place in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on June 23, 2016. Membership in the European Union has been a topic of debate in the United Kingdom since before the […]
Quebec and Federal Content Enhancements to CanLII
CanLII has recently announced some significant content enhancements to their offerings of federal Quebec materials – and an exciting development for freely available legal information. In collaboration with the Quebec Centre d’accès à l’information juridique (CAIJ), the following substantial caselaw offerings have been added to the Quebec databases: Selected decisions published between 1869 and 1969 […]
New Legal History Journal Subscription
The Osgoode Library now subscribes to JUS GENTIUM: Journal of International Legal History, the first issue of which has just recently been published. Jus Gentium is the first American journal dedicated to addressing the history of international law. Much of modern scholarship on the history of international law is preoccupied not with international law, but with […]
American Law Institute (ALI) Library on HeinOnline
The Osgoode Hall Law School Library now subscribes to the ALI (American Law Institute) Library on HeinOnline, making all ALI publications available to our users in a comprehensive, searchable, online format! The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law […]
Exhibit in the Osgoode Library - Lawyers without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich
The Osgoode Hall Law School Library is proud to be hosting the highly acclaimed international exhibition “Lawyers without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich”. The exhibition was prepared by the German Federal Bar (Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer) and was translated into English and prepared for exhibit in North America by the American Bar Association. It has […]
Canada Added to the Library of Congress Indigenous Law Portal
This is a wonderful gift from our neighbours to the south. On June 21, in celebration of our National Aboriginal Day, the Law Library of Congress opened the Canadian portion of their Indigenous Law Portal, expanding the portal's coverage for the first time beyond the United States. The Canadian portion of the Indigenous Law Portal is divided into three […]
The Jarvis-Irving Collection
In several separate purchases over the past year, the Osgoode Library has managed to acquire a collection of law books, the Jarvis-Irving Collection, comprising 32 titles (67 volumes) that belonged to Samuel Peters Jarvis (1792-1857), a lawyer and prominent Toronto citizen and member of the Family Compact in Upper Canada. Jarvis was born in Newark […]