This report describes the digitization efforts of the Library of Parliamentary and was recently posted to their web site and blogged about yesterday by "Library Boy" (aka Michel-Adrien Sheppard, Supreme Court Reference Librarian). "The goal [of the working paper] is to help inform the development of a coherent strategy amongst the various stakeholders to digitize, […]
General News
Law Yearbook of China
The Law Yearbook of China (English version) is now included among the materials available on the LawInfoChina service. Currently, the volumes for the years 2002, 2003-2004 and 2006 are available. The Law Yearbook of China is a large, comprehensive and requisite text for students of Chinese law for basic information about the socialist legal system […]
New "Justice Reporter" on Law and the Media
The Canadian Media Lawyers Association recently launched the Justice Reporter newsletter on their revised Ad IDEM website. This new online (PDF) newsletter focuses on issues affecting journalism and the law. The newsletter was conceived and is edited by Tracey Tyler, legal affairs reporter at the Toronto Star, and Tony Wong, a litigation partner at Blake, […]
Smalley-Baker Lab Closing for Maintenance
Effective Wednesday, June 10, the Smalley-Baker Student Computer Lab will be closed for a minimum of two weeks so that the IT group can do maintenance on the equipment in the room and to make preparations for the eventual relocation of the library for the impending renovations to the law school. Osgoode law students are […]
Justice Laws Website Now Official
The Consolidated Federal Statutes and Regulations on the Justice Laws Website are now official and are admissible as evidence in court. This is the result of the coming into force on that date of amendments made to the Statute Revision Act, which has been renamed the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act. To see the relevant […]
New eResource: vLex Global
We now have access to vLex Global, an online legal research service based in Barcelona, Spain. vLex offers case law, legislation, and other legal materials for nearly 98 countries, with a particular focus on jurisdictions in Latin America and Europe. The contents of vLex can be searched by keyword, or browsed by country. Information is […]
Two New eResources from Oxford University Press Now Available
The library has just acquired two new online resources from Oxford University Press: the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History and the collection of law books published by OUP available on Oxford Scholarship Online. The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, edited by Stanley N. Katz, is the first encyclopedia of law to provide both […]
Quebec eLaws to Become Official
The Quebec Government yesterday introduced a bill (Bill 18 -- An Act respecting the Compilation of Québec Laws and Regulations) to give official status to the electronic version of Quebec's statutes. Bill 18 in the National Assembly. The electronic compilatiion will have official status upon the coming-into-force of the act. The bill further specifies that […]
Yemisi Dina Speaks at International Conference
Yemisi Dina, Head of Public Services at the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, was a featured speaker at the 27th Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, held Nov.30-Dec. 3, 2008, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Annual Course in International Law Librarianship is the annual meeting and principal educational event of the International Association of […]
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. For more information: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (text) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 1948-2008 (United Nations) The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of […]