As a child of the Napster generation, the idea of "free" music is something that has a long and fraught history. Until Napster's debut in 1999, it was simply assumed that you would fork out $20 for a CD because what other option did you have? Online music was largely relegated to downloading (in retrospect, […]
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RomaRisingCA: Photography Exhibit in the Osgoode Library
The RomaRisingCA photography exhibit, a collection of photographs of members of the Canadian Roma (Gypsy) community, was officially opened this afternoon in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library. Roma Rising / Opre Roma – Portraits of a Community (romarisingCA), was created to challenge stereotypical views of the Roma community. Opre Roma derives from the Romani language, […]
No food in the library - here's why
It is no secret that the eating habits of Osgoode students have recently fallen somewhat under the microscope. However, this focus has been largely limited to what students are snacking on in the classroom, and not in the library. The obvious reason for this is that food is strictly forbidden in the library - crunchy, […]
Welcome back!
It's that time of year! The 1Ls are being initiated into the ways of the law student today, and soon the rest of the Osgoode community will return from what was hopefully an extremely relaxing and invigorating summer next week. While I'm sure that many students are not even thinking about the library while it's […]
International Law Reports on Justis enhanced with replica PDFs
For the very first time, the renowned International Law Reports (ILR), published by Cambridge University Press, are now available on Justis complete with PDFs of the original reports. Now all decisions and other documents published in the ILRs can be downloaded or printed in the "official, as reported" format. The Justis online legal library is […]
Disaster strikes!
In the wake of this year's spate of wild (and wildly destructive) weather, including July 8th's record-breaking torrential deluge that flooded swathes of the city, crippling transit, leaving thousands without power for days, and which will ultimately cost upwards of $600 million in property damage, there are a number of questions of a legal nature that […]
Opinions on High: New High Court of Australia Blog
Our friend Carole Hinchcliffe, head of the law library at University of Melbourne Law School, informs us that their new blog Opinions on High went live today. The blog airms to provide a public forum for discussion of the judicial decisions of the High Court of Australia by providing commentary on and analysis of recent High […]
More Good News for Foreign and Comparative Law Buffs
Following on our subscription to the Foreign Law Guide this spring, we have subscribed to the Making of Modern Law's latest database: Foreign Primary Sources 1600 - 1970. This is the first of a proposed two "volumes," and contains statutes, regulations, codes and commentaries of Great Britain, Ireland and countries in northern, central and eastern […]
GitHub: Where Law Meets Technology?
It’s likely that many of you are not familiar with GitHub the collaborative management platform used by many open source software developers. This is a place where the open source coding community share, review and develop their work. So if you’re looking for code this is where you go. However, as Thomas R. Bruce points […]
Punctuation - it DOES matter
The following is an extended passage taken from the wonderfully cranky and pedantic book The King's English by the wonderfully cranky and pedantic Kingsley Amis. Intended as a highly subjective and opinionated "guide to modern usage", the passage below is taken from the entry on "Capitals and full stops". It should be noted that in British […]