It's that time of year - the end-of-term paper-writing and exam crunch. And for many of you who are graduating this spring, you'll barely have time to catch your breath before launching headlong into your bar ads. In a nutshell, it's a crazy, busy, stressful whirlwind of all-nighters, bleary eyes, summary writing, coffee consumption, and […]
Recent Acquisitions, April 1 - April 5, 2013
18 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 9 from 2013: K 247 H85 2013 The principle of proportionality / Peter Hulsroj. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer Verlag, 2013 xiii, 76 p. ; 24 cm. K 3320 J35 2012 Legislative drafting : an introduction to theories and principles / Tonye Clinton Jaja. […]
Sticks and stones?
Everybody knows the old schoolyard chant of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me". However, lately there seems to have been a spate of high-profile cases of (alleged) defamation and libel, with varying degrees of success. While the idea of defending one's honour typically conjures up visions of duels […]
Halsbury's Laws of Canada Now Complete
LexisNexis Canada recently celebrated the completion of the first edition of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada with the publication of the 77th and final volume this past February. Halsbury's Canada began publication in 2006 with the volume on Conflict of Laws by Osgoode's own Janet Walker. Now complete,Halsbury's covers 117 legal subjects from all 14 Canadian […]
New on HeinOnline - State Statutes: A Historical Archive
Hein has just announced the release of State Statutes: A Historical Archive in HeinOnline. This new collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2,000,000 pages of historical, superseded state statutes and offers a valuable source of information for legal researchers and scholars to understand the thinking and conditions behind the creation of the historical […]
Recent Acquisitions, March 25 - March 29, 2013
14 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 8 from 2013: Building your toolkit and improving your practice. Ontario Bar Association. Continuing Professional Development. [CLE Program] KF 570 A2 O58 2013 Building your toolkit and improving your practice. [Toronto, Ont.] : Ontario Bar Association, Continuing Professional Development, 2013 1 v. (various pagings) : […]
Legal writing... with style?
Today there is an interesting article on Slaw about the need for a greater degree of style in legal writing. Not in the stylistic sense of flair (although that would certainly be nice - there is a reason we still love to read Lord Denning), but rather in the formalistic sense, where the writing is […]
Go on a BibliOdyssey...
While having breakfast this morning, my eye fell upon a book that I had purchased a few years ago and has since been residing in the dusty chambers of my memory. It is titled BibliOdyssey: Archival Images from the Internet, and it is an interesting, contradictory item - it is a book of images from […]
New Online Services guide
Check out our new Online Services guide. You can find it under Topical on the Research Guides page. This guide links you to everything you need to know about Quicklaw, Westlaw Canada, Taxnet Pro and CCH Online. Find out how to register, how to find training, tutorials and reference materials, how to reach Customer Service […]
Read me like a hurricane
Having had a recent question regarding the use of RSS feeds to keep abreast of legal news (particularly new cases in CanLII), it occurred to me that this would be a great idea for practical blog post (cue the proverbial "eureka!" lightbulb above my head). RSS (or "Rich Site Summary"), is essentially a summary of […]