"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 […]
Recent Acquisitions, April 29 - May 3, 2013
6 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 2 from 2013: K 1401 A9125 2011 International intellectual property in an integrated world economy / Frederick M. Abbott, Thomas Cottier, Francis Gurry. New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2011 xxxvi, 824 p. ; 26 cm. Aviation liability law Dempsey, Paul Stephen. K […]
New Resource: Foreign Law Guide
While the summer has started for the Osgoode community (no doubt assisted by the warm weather serving as an antidote to the long, long winter), for those of you who are working as RAs over the summer or doing other foreign legal research, we have a new resource that is well worth the time to […]
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 […]
Recent Acquisitions, April 22 - April 26, 2013
12 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 3 from 2013: Understanding financial statements Krishna, Vern. HF 5681 B2 K75 2013 Understanding financial statements / Vern Krishna. Toronto : Irwin Law, 2013 No description available JA 80 E96 2012 Evolution and morality / edited by James E. Fleming and Sanford Levinson. New York […]
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 […]
Summer Reading
Exams are nearly over and summer is nearly here (notwithstanding spring's rather reluctant arrival), so no doubt everyone's mind is turning to their summer reading. The Guardian newspaper has very thoughtfully compiled a reading list for you, and we have a number of the books in our collection, including a DVD in one case. Your […]
Recent Acquisitions, April 15 - April 19, 2013
33 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 17 from 2013: La vision nouvelle de la société dans l'Encyclopédie méthodique. Volume I, Jurisprudence Delia, Luigi. K 215 F7 V57 2012 La vision nouvelle de la société dans l'Encyclopédie méthodique. Volume I, Jurisprudence / [présenté par] Luigi Delia & Éthel Groffier. [Québec] : Presses […]
High Noon at York?
For those of you who are interested in copyright and intellectual property (and I know that there are a lot of you), you will doubtless be familiar with the recent battles surrounding the shifting landscape of Canadian copyright law between Access Copyright and pretty much everybody else. For those of you unfamiliar with the drama […]
Recent Acquisitions, April 8 - April 12, 2013
53 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 15 from 2013: HJ 5316 G75 2012 Green taxation and environmental sustainability / edited by Larry Kreiser ... [et al.]. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2012 xviii, 283 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. KJE 983 P83 C67 2012 EU ordre public / Tim Corthaut. No […]