As reported on Slaw, the 2013 Canadian Law Blog Awards (Clawbies) have been announced. The award for Best Law Library Blog this year goes to The Stream, the blog of the Courthouse Libraries BC. We've always been fans of this blog, especially for is practical focus on legal research tips and tools, and legal news affecting practice. […]
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New AODA regulations coming into effect January 1st
For those of your who are interested in disability law and critical disability studies, it is worth pointing out that the latest round of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) regulations will be coming into effect on January 1, 2014 (amazingly, less than two weeks away). AODA regulations are being gradually rolled out on […]
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women - December 6, 2013
December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Here are some interesting research materials on this topic: Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada's Statement Violence Against Women by Patti Ryan and Lisa Sloniowski UN Women Action Globally Government of Canada Efforts Gender & the Law by Yemisi […]
Our New Books List - Fixed
Thanks to the joys of modern technology our new books list has been broken since the end of August. Thankfully this functionality, which automagically provides a weekly list of recent acquisitions added to and available in the library collection, has been fixed. That's a bit of a gap though, almost three months! So if you'd […]
Exams already?!
It's that time of year when the nights get longer, the air gets colder, snow falls, and the holiday spirit descends upon Toronto... and law students can't enjoy any of it due to the end-of-term frenzy of caffeine, summaries, studying, and writing papers and, finally, exams. Last year I wrote a post trying to mitigate the […]
Recent International Law Acquisitions
The library has been busy lately augmenting its International Law collection. The London Review of International Law is a brand new journal from Oxford (Volume 1 Issue 1 was published September 2013) to which we now have access. It is not available through the catalogue or eResources yet, but it will be. We have also […]
Graduate Students Seminar
The Law Library Graduate Seminar will take place on Monday November 18, 2013. Time: 10:00am - 11:30am Location: Room 1003 IKB Osgoode Hall Law School Topics to be covered include how to work with legal and multidisciplinary research resources, legislation and case law research, foreign, comparative and international resources, legal citation, using citation manage etc. […]
Free music - legally
As a child of the Napster generation, the idea of "free" music is something that has a long and fraught history. Until Napster's debut in 1999, it was simply assumed that you would fork out $20 for a CD because what other option did you have? Online music was largely relegated to downloading (in retrospect, […]
RomaRisingCA: Photography Exhibit in the Osgoode Library
The RomaRisingCA photography exhibit, a collection of photographs of members of the Canadian Roma (Gypsy) community, was officially opened this afternoon in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library. Roma Rising / Opre Roma – Portraits of a Community (romarisingCA), was created to challenge stereotypical views of the Roma community. Opre Roma derives from the Romani language, […]
No food in the library - here's why
It is no secret that the eating habits of Osgoode students have recently fallen somewhat under the microscope. However, this focus has been largely limited to what students are snacking on in the classroom, and not in the library. The obvious reason for this is that food is strictly forbidden in the library - crunchy, […]