Big news for those who love trawling through and reading government documents (you know who you are!), as an interesting new initiative was announced this week. From the press release: The Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC) is proud to announce the release of its unique pan-Canadian bilingual government and legislative publications portal known […]
Shooting fish in a barrel
It is perhaps somewhat surprising that we've taken so long to get to this post, but it just seemed so obvious that I was reluctant to seem like we're just adding to the pile-on. I refer, of course, to the ongoing legal troubles of His Worship, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Even those who make a point […]
Westlaw Litigator Training (Jan 23, 1-2 pm, Rm. 2009)
Your friendly neighbourhood library is happy to announce additional Westlaw Litigator training next week. Think you know Litigator? Come and brush up. Don't know litigator? Come to have your mind blown. Details below: The Library is pleased to offer an additional Westlaw Litigator training session. Westlaw Litigator is a unique collection of more than 100,000 […]
A quick guide to rare books
This is a post that really seems to straddle the boundary behind low brow and high brow, since it's about rare books, but via Pawn Stars. If you've seen Pawn Stars, you'll know that it's an extremely popular reality television show that is based out of the Silver and Gold Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. […]
Cliffhanger!
Although I'm certain that the holidays were, for many, a chance to clear your minds and unwind (and for those of you at Law Games, I won't tell your mothers), but it only took a cursory look at the newspapers to be faced with the unavoidable spectre of the so-called "fiscal cliff" south of the […]
We're #1, we're #1!!
As a final flourish to what has been an outstanding 2012, we have awakened from our holiday slumber to toot our own horn a little bit - as the freshly minted winners of a 2012 Clawbie for Best Law Library Blog! You can read the full list of winners here, but here's what they had […]
Major Enhancement to SCC Judgments Website
The Supreme Court of Canada and Lexum are proud to announce that the Court’s judgments website now contains all decisions back to 1907. Moreover, all the PDF versions of decisions up to 2010 are identical to the official version available in the Supreme Court Reports. This major content addition has been made possible thanks to […]
It's that time of year...
It's that time of year when you can't possibly imagine another summary, another all-nighter, another minute of the at-times-crushing weight of expectation that accompanies the exam period. While it's probably the absolute last thing you want to hear (and have probably heard it a million times already anyway), as somebody who has done it relatively […]
Law and Order: Overthought
I'm sure that pretty much all denizens of law schools have, at some point watched at least one episode of Law and Order (or its many, many spin-offs) and, in all likelihood, groaned at some point. While it's undeniably entertaining, it is also frequently larded with clichés, improbabilities, bad law, and an overly Manichean outlook. After twenty years and […]
Food and the Law
As a law librarian who also really, really likes to cook, I am always interested when issues regarding food and the law crop up. There has obviously been a surge of awareness, advocacy, and engagement with these issues over the past decade or so, with a host of media attention lavished upon previously unheralded issues […]