The following training sessions are being offered by the Law Library: Quicklaw - Monday September 26, 2011. Case law from 12:15 - 1:15 Legislation from 1:15 - 2:15 Westlaw - Wednesday October 12, 2011. Canadian material from 12:15 - 1:15 U.S. material from 1:15 - 2:15 CCH Online - Monday October 17, 2011. 12:15 -1:15 Location: Room […]
Regulations Added to QuickCITE Citator on Quicklaw
Now you can note up regulations from 10 jurisdictions with QuickCITE on Quicklaw. This added functionality is available for British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Federal and Nova Scotia regulations will be added by the end of this month. With the addition of […]
September 12 – September 16, 2011
33 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 31 from 2011: K 213 E95 2011 Exploring courtroom discourse : the language of power and control edited by Anne Wagner and Le Cheng. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011 xvii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Law » Language. Conduct […]
September 5 – September 9, 2011
36 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 30 from 2011: K 213 G69 2011 Patterns of linguistic variation in American legal English : a corpus-based study Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2011 277 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Law » Language. Semantics (Law) K 230 A45 A34 […]
Free eBooks from CALI’s eLangdell Press and the Legal Information Institute
Sarah Glassmeyer, law librarian and Director of Content Development for CALI (the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) reports in recent post on the Law Librarian Blog that CALI’s eLangdell Press has now publsihed the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The ebooks were compiled by the good folks at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell […]
August 29 – September 2, 2011
24 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 21 from 2011: HQ 560 I5 W4 C37 2008 The importance of being monogamous : marriage and nation building in Western Canada to 1915 Sarah Carter. Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2008 xv, 383 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Marriage » […]
Academic Publishing Under Scrutiny
In a recent post on Slaw, our colleague Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Librarian, refers to an article in The Guardian – “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist” – by George Monbiot. Mr Monbiot recommends that “governments should refer the academic publishers to their competition watchdogs, and insist that all papers arising from publicly funded research are placed […]
August 22 – August 26, 2011
38 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 25 from 2011: Crime prevention digest II : comparative analysis of successful community safety directed by Irvin Waller ; prepared by Daniel Sansfaçon and Brandon Welsh. Montreal : International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, 1999 HV 7431 S24 1999 Crime prevention digest II […]
August 15 – August 19, 2011
43 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 35 from 2011: JC 599 R65 S7313 2011 The reeducation trials in Communist Romania (1952-1960) / Mircea Stănescu. [Boulder] : [New York] : East European Monographs ; distributed by Columbia University Press, 2011 xiv, 394 pages ; 22 cm. Political persecution » Romania » […]
August 8 – August 12, 2011
21 new acquisitions for the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 19 from 2011: Curés et marguilliers : le conflit de Notre-Dame : loi des fabriques Montréal : [s.n.], 1891 BV 650 C87 1891 Curés et marguilliers : le conflit de Notre-Dame : loi des fabriques Montréal : [s.n.], 1891 32 p. ; 23 cm. […]