Brush up on your online searching skills! The library is pleased to offer Lexis Advance Quicklaw training on Wednesday, October 4, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. The session will take place in Room 2011. To register please send a message to library@osgoode.yorku.ca with Lexis Advance Quicklaw training in the subject.
Osgoode Digital Commons: Readership Snapshot
August 2017 Last month, Osgoode Digital Commons had 41,179 full-text downloads and 221 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 16,568. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,251 institutions across 173 countries. The most popular papers were: Self-Interest, Public Interest, and the Interests of the […]
Library tours next week
Hope to see you at one of our library tours next week! We will be offering tours at the following times: Monday September 18 10:00 – 10:30, 12:30 – 1:00, 1:00 – 1:30, 1:30 – 2:00, 2:00 – 2:30 Wednesday, September 20 12:30 – 1:00, 1:00 – 1:30, 1:30 – 2:00, 2:00 – 2:30 All […]
New on HeinOnline
Some new resources recently added to our HeinOnline collections: American Indian Law Collection (34 Titles) Core Collection (102 Titles) Foreign & International Law Resources Database (9 Titles) Foreign Relations of the U.S. (13 Titles) History of International Law (22 Titles) Intellectual Property Law Collection (25 Titles) Law Journal Library (35 Titles) Legal Classics Library (201 […]
Recent Acquisitions at the Osgoode Hall Law School Library
The former 'new books script' that once generated the list of Recent Acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library was decommissioned at the end of the school 2016/2017 year. To see what's new to the Library click on this link to display a search for recent materials received in the library catalogue. You can […]
Library tours
Come meet the library staff, take a short tour the library and hear about all the services and resources we offer. We will be offering tours at the following times: Monday September 18 10:00 – 10:30, 12:30 - 1:00, 1:00 - 1:30, 1:30 – 2:00, 2:00 – 2:30 Wednesday, September 20 12:30 - 1:00, 1:00 […]
Osgoode Digital Commons: Readership Snapshot
July 2017 Last month, Osgoode Digital Commons had 35,135 full-text downloads and there were 188 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 16,387. Osgoode Hall Law School of York University scholarship was read by 2,199 institutions across 173 countries. The most popular papers were: The Critical Characteristics of Community Legal […]
An Important Association Copy: George-Étienne Cartier and Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
The Osgoode Library’s Canada Law Book Rare Book Room contains many treasures illustrative of Canadian law and history. One of my favourites is a small book, not of great value in its own right, but valuable both because of its association with two great of Canadians and because of the insight it gives us into […]
New Coat of Arms for Osgoode
Over the past few years, the Library has been closely involved in working with the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Rideau Hall on the design of a new coat of arms for Osgoode to reflect the law school’s association with York University and in celebration of our 50th anniversary at York. That task is now complete. […]
When True Crime Meets Crime Fiction: A Bibliographical Mystery
The Osgoode Library recently acquired for its Trials special collection in the Canada Law Book Rare Room copies of the following publication: Life and Confession of Sophia Hamilton Who Was Tried, Condemned and Sentenced to be Hung at [name of city] for the Perpetration of the Most Shocking Murders and Daring Robberies Perhaps Recorded in […]