While we can all get recent sessional Ontario laws on e-laws, it has been more difficult to get statutes from Ontario's distant past online. Though, this is not totally correct. LLMC has digitized the Ontario laws up until 1980. The big issue with LLMC is the clunkiness of their search engine. It is very difficult […]
Superheroes and the law?
While the law can be alternately deadly serious or patently ridiculous (often in the midst of a single case!), it is always refreshing to read legal writing where the author is clearly enjoying the material. If you learn something - even better! In December 2010, I read about a novel new legal blog in the […]
Legal Fiction and DVDs
As the leaves fall and winter inexorably marches forward, reading dry legal text after dry legal text can start to weigh heavily. Rather than resorting to yet another round of "Angry Birds" or trawling TMZ, you might want to take the time to check out the Osgoode Library's Legal Fiction and DVD collections. Bonus: Because […]
October 15 – October 19, 2012
55 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 40 from 2012: JC 179 M74 1977 The spirit of laws : a compendium of the first English edition / by Montesquieu ; edited, with an introd., notes, and appendixes, by David Wallace Carrithers ; together with an English translation of An essay on […]
New Website for Supreme Court of Canada Judgments
This past week, the Supreme Court of Canada launched a new website for its online judgments. I think you'll agree the site is cleaner, clearer, more efficient, easier to use and much more attractive. There is a "quick search" box right at the top of the page, with a link to an "Advanced Search" function. […]
October 8 – October 12, 2012
34 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 28 from 2012: A study of the African Union's right of intervention against genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes / Girmachew Alemu Aneme. Nijmegen : Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP), 2011 JZ 6377 A35 G57 2011 A study of the African Union's right of […]
September 17 – September 21, 2012
53 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 33 from 2012: K 212 G355 2011 Game theory and the law / edited by Jerzy Stelmach and Wojciech Załuski. Kraków : Copernicus Center Press, 2011 247 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Jurisprudence and political philosophy in the 21st century : reassessing legacies […]
September 10 – September 14, 2012
16 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 9 from 2012: HV 9104 S764 2009 Justice for girls? : stability and change in the youth justice systems of the United States and Canada / Jane B. Sprott and Anthony N. Doob ; with a foreword by Franklin E. Zimring. Chicago ; London […]
September 3 – September 7, 2012
34 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 13 from 2012: BQ 4435 R48 2009 Rethinking karma : the dharma of social justice / Jonathan S. Watts, editor. Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2009 xi, 260 p. ; 21 cm. Amerikafahrt / Wolfgang Koeppen. Franfurt am Main : Fischer, 1962 E […]
August 27 – August 31, 2012
35 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 21 from 2012: HV 6457 P43 2011 The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching / Michael J. Pfeifer. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011 x, 143 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Die Idee der Staatsräson in der neueren Geschichte […]