Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has issued another useful bibliography in his ongoing series of bibliographies relating to digital scholarship. The latest addition is the Open Access Journals Bibliography. "This bibliography presents selected English-language scholarly works that are useful in understanding open access journals. It does not cover works about e-prints or works that include open […]
General News
New Editions of Three Canadian Legal Research & Writing Guides
Catherine Best, research lawyer at Boughton Law in Vancouver, has written an excellent review of the three current leading Canadian texts on legal research and writing. The review is worth reading not only for her clear analysis and constructive comments on the three books, but also for her own insights into best practices for conducting […]
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 […]
Report on the Changing Face of the Legal Profession in Ontario
Michael Ornstein, Director of the ORU-Institute for Social Research here at York University, has prepared a report for the Law Society of Upper Canada entitled Racialization and Gender of Lawyers in Ontario. This report, tabled at a recent meeting of Convocation, reveals a remarkable shift in the demographic makeup of the legal profession in Ontario. […]
European e-Justice Portal
The European Community has placed a new online front end on its law-related offerings, aiming to make it easier to find what you want amid the welter of languages, systems, and regulations. The recently launched European e-Justice Portal (in English here) contains sections directed at the public, businesses, the legal profession, and the judiciary. Within […]
Federal Courts Reports Online
Full volumes of the Federal Courts Reports are now available on the Court's website. While the Federal Courts Reports continue to be available in print and are available in the Osgoode Library (though currently in storage while the library is being renovated), but you can now access the same content online beginning with [2007] Volume […]
Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules
Our own Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Director of IP Osgoode, has just published her new book - Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules - with Edward Elgar Publishing. The library's copies of the book are on order and should be received shortly: you can check here for their status. Meanwhile, here's a brief description of […]
New, Free Canadian Online Legal Dictionary
It's online, it's Canadian and it's free. What's not to like about Irwin Law's new Canadian Online Legal Dictionary? It has a clean, intuitive, easy-to-use interface. It can be browsed alphabetically or by topic, or you can search the full text by keyword. It provides links to related terms. It provides sources for all definitions […]
New Canadian Securities Act and National Securities Regulation
The press this week has been full of reports and stories on the the proposed Canadian Securities Act, introduced in the House of Commons on May 26 by the federal Finance minister. The legislation creates a national Canadian Securities Regulatory Authority (CSRA) and an independent Canadian Securities Tribunal to replace the current hodge-podge of provincial […]
Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada
Our own Prof. Carys Craig has recently published the article "Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada: In Pursuit of 'Prescriptive Parallelism'" in the Journal of World Intellectual Property (2010). A pre-peer reviewed version of the article is available on SSRN. Here's the abstract of the article: "The enactment of anti-circumvention laws […]