The presentations from the Research Assistants Summer Session on May 9 have now been posted on the Research Guides page. (Scroll down to Presentations). The presentations cover primary resources, secondary resources and Zotero, Evernote and the art of managing time and resources for research.
Legal Research
Will the Public Lose Access to Essential Legal Documents?
"When people say everything's online," says Jerry Dupont of the Law Library Microform Consortium [LLMC], "they're woefully uninformed." Yes, it might seem like we have access to all the legal information we might ever need but Jerry Dupont’s observation still rings true. And while ongoing digitization efforts of law and other libraries continue to benefit […]
Legal Research Refresher Session
The Law Library is offering a legal research refresher session on May 9. While the session is geared primarily to Research Assistants, graduate students and graduating 3rd year students who want to improve their research skills are also welcome to attend, space permitting. The workshop will cover the following areas: Finding primary and secondary sources […]
Stylistic Flair - A time and place?
In a post from a few weeks ago, I lamented the lack of flair in legal writing. Although it's certainly not a "need-to-have", it's certainly a "nice-to-have". Throughout legal education and practice, you will likely have to read many, many decisions, and most of them are - to not put too fine of a point […]
Sticks and stones?
Everybody knows the old schoolyard chant of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me". However, lately there seems to have been a spate of high-profile cases of (alleged) defamation and libel, with varying degrees of success. While the idea of defending one's honour typically conjures up visions of duels […]
Halsbury's Laws of Canada Now Complete
LexisNexis Canada recently celebrated the completion of the first edition of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada with the publication of the 77th and final volume this past February. Halsbury's Canada began publication in 2006 with the volume on Conflict of Laws by Osgoode's own Janet Walker. Now complete,Halsbury's covers 117 legal subjects from all 14 Canadian […]
New on HeinOnline - State Statutes: A Historical Archive
Hein has just announced the release of State Statutes: A Historical Archive in HeinOnline. This new collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2,000,000 pages of historical, superseded state statutes and offers a valuable source of information for legal researchers and scholars to understand the thinking and conditions behind the creation of the historical […]
Legal writing... with style?
Today there is an interesting article on Slaw about the need for a greater degree of style in legal writing. Not in the stylistic sense of flair (although that would certainly be nice - there is a reason we still love to read Lord Denning), but rather in the formalistic sense, where the writing is […]
New Online Services guide
Check out our new Online Services guide. You can find it under Topical on the Research Guides page. This guide links you to everything you need to know about Quicklaw, Westlaw Canada, Taxnet Pro and CCH Online. Find out how to register, how to find training, tutorials and reference materials, how to reach Customer Service […]
Canon law
It's been an odd few weeks in the realm of ancient traditions, what with the discovery of Richard III and now the first papal resignation in six hundred years (and the first voluntary one since the thirteenth century, when Celestine V stepped down in 1294). As of 8pm (2pm EST) on Thursday, the Pope will […]