It's safe to say that we've all seen many, many movies and television shows that represent the well-worn tropes of the courtroom drama (or comedy) - dramatic tension, the quest for the truth, the judge furiously banging his or her gavel, celebrations over the delivery of justice, and so on. They've become so ingrained into […]
Recent Acquisitions, February 21 - February 25, 2013
56 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 29 from 2013: HV 41 K276 2013 Celebrity humanitarianism : the ideology of global charity / Ilan Kapoor. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013 xiv, 145 p. ; 25 cm. JC 328.6 N56 2013 Constitutional violence : legitimacy, democracy and human rights / […]
Canon law
It's been an odd few weeks in the realm of ancient traditions, what with the discovery of Richard III and now the first papal resignation in six hundred years (and the first voluntary one since the thirteenth century, when Celestine V stepped down in 1294). As of 8pm (2pm EST) on Thursday, the Pope will […]
The Face of the Ghetto: A Photography Exhibit in the Osgoode Library, February 24-March 17, 2013
THE FACE OF THE GHETTO Pictures Taken by Jewish Photographers in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1944 An Exhibition at the Osgoode Hall Law School Library Ignat Kaneff Building, York University February 24 through March 17, 2013 During World War II, the Nazis established the second largest ghetto for Jews in the occupied Polish city of Lodz […]
Happy Valentine's from the Law Library!
Call it kismet, but we have received a new book for our Special Collections that seems extremely appropriate for Valentine's Day. Titled The Law In Postcards & Ephemera 1890-1962, it is, as the name would suggest, a collection of law-related postcards and ephemera that ranges from the racy to amusing to just plain cute. While many […]
Nature and Numbering of English Acts of Parliament
We've been weeding the collection of reference materials now integrated into the Library's Core Collection. (Don't worry, we're not throwing anything out; we're just moving many of the older or no-longer-topical materials to the stacks or into storage.) In the process, we've found some pretty arcane and interesting things. This is one of them. In […]
English law was adopted as Canadian law at Confederation, right?
Wrong. Another simple question at the Reference Desk last week. But we all know English law was received into Canada at some point, don't we? We may think we know that, but I didn't have any idea just how complicated the answer to the question of what law was received and when until I went […]
Winter of discontent
In one of last week's biggest news stories, researchers and archaeologists in Britain managed to find and identify the body of one of the most notorious British monarchs, Richard III, whose remains were found beneath a parking lot in the middle of the city of Leicester. Although the historical significance of the discovery is arguably dubious, with […]
Revised Statutes of Canada Now on HeinOnline
The complete Revised Statutes of Canada (RSC), from the first revision in 1896 to the last in 1985 -- are now available in HeinOnline. This project was completed with assistance from the Osgoode Library, which provided copies of all the revisions to Hein for digitization.This is the first time that the RSC are available online […]
Upcoming Zotero webinars
Although I am currently in the midst of introducing first-year Legal Process students to the wonders of Zotero, for those of you who want a bit more information (or know nothing about it), York Libraries is offering free webinars for Zotero tomorrow (January 31st) and Monday (February 4th). The info about the webinars (and Zotero […]