Trans-Lex.org is a new research website focusing on transnational and international business law resources. It present resources in four primary categories: principles ("more than 120 principles and rules of transnational law, the New Lex Mercatoria"); bibliography; materials ("a collection of domestic statutes, international conventions, model laws, restatements and other soft-law instruments"); and links to other […]
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Track the latest Tables of Contents from thousands of scholarly journals
Journal TOCs is an excellent and free resource that helps you keep track of current tables of contents from your favorite journals. There are currently 309 law related journals and a total of over 14,250 journals in all with new journal titles added regularly. You can find tables of contents by searching for: journal titles; […]
Launch of Free-Access International Law Library
A new free international law site was released yesterday by Sir Kenneth James Keith, a judge of the International Court of Justice, and reported by Simon Foden on sLaw. The International Law Library was developed by AUSTLII and contains ...: "... over 80,000 searchable documents for free access. This includes over 25,000 decisions of International […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introductory Webinar for World Constitutions Illustrated
HeinOnline will be introducing World Constitutions Illustrated in a webinar on Thursday, May 6th. There will be two sessions: one in the morning at 10:00am and the second at 2:00pm in the afternoon. "During the webinar we will explain how this library introduces a new legal research platform and how the scope of it is […]
Using & Searching HeinOnline's Treaties and Agreements Library
The folks at HeinOnline are offering another training webinar this one on the Treaties and Agreements Library. There will be two half hour sessions held on Tuesday, April 13th; one in the morning at 10:00 and a second at 2:00. The session will provide an overview of the content and browsing options, take a look […]