Sarah Glassmeyer, law librarian and Director of Content Development for CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) reports in recent post on the Law Librarian Blog that CALI’s eLangdell Press has now publsihed the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The ebooks were compiled by the good folks at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell […]
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Term Frequency Searching on Westlaw Canada
What is Term Frequency Searching? You can now limit the results retrieved by search queries on Westlaw Canada to display only those documents that refer to particular search terms extensively, or documents that have one term appear more often than others. You are now able to specify that a term must appear at least a […]
Can't Get Enough Quicklaw? New QL iPhone App
Quicklaw subscribers can now download the new Quicklaw app for iPhone free at the Apple App Store. Retrieve cases from the Quicklaw service right from your iPhone. Get on-the-go access to Quicklaw's complete, editorially enhanced case law collection and note up Canadian court and tribunal cases with the tap of your finger. No matter where […]
Research Training for RAs
The session will cover primary and secondary resources, bibliographic management tools such as RefWorks and Zotero. Date: Monday May 9, 2011 Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm Location: Room S839 Ross Building Register by sending an email to lawref@osgoode.yorku.ca Light refreshments will be served.
Envisioning LGBT Human Rights
York University visual arts Professor Nancy Nicol has been awarded a SSHRCC grant of $1 million over 5 years to lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity. Members of the research team include leading LGBT rights activists from Toronto and developing countries. The Osgoode library is providing […]
Australian Law Dictionary - Online!
The library now has access to the Australian Law Dictionary online -- part of the Oxford University Press "Digital Reference Shelf" service. Access is provided from both the Osgoode and York University e-resources databases. This is a new (2010) publication, edited by Prof. Trischa Mann of the Australian National University. The Australian Law Dictionary is […]
Legal Information Institute of India
The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) was officially launched on March 9, 2011. This database is an addition to the World Legal Information Institute which makes legal information freely available on the Internet. Featuring about 3, 818,095 materials which include cases and legislation from all the states and territories of India, law […]
Video: Legal Research Essentials: Finding Cases on Point
There's a great series of short videos on 'Finding Cases on Point' available through the British Columbia Courthouse libraries. The course content was created by Alex McNeur of Courthouse Libraries BC in consultation with Mark Hicken, Kristina Oldenburg, and Mandy Ostick and "demonstrate[s] how you can conduct case law research more effectively ... [and] ... […]
JustCite Introduces Precedent Map
JustCite is a legal citator and search engine for researching UK statutes and cases. It cross-references UK cases, legislation, and secondary commentaries to allow researchers to find related materials. It works very similarly like the Westlaw Keycite and Quicklaw Note Up service. Today, JustCite launched the "Precedent Map" feature, allowing the visualizing of relationships between […]
Customary International Humanitarian Law Database
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently launched a FREE online database on customary international humanitarian law (IHL). This database is an expansion of the 2005 published study of IHL, conducted by ICRC in consultation with experts from around the world. It includes two parts. Part One offers a comprehensive analysis of […]