Today marks the 223rd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, signed September 17, 1787 at the Philadelphia Convention. You can take a look at the Constitution and a collection of other significant on the webpage of America's Historical Documents, digitized and assembled by the US National Archives. In the spirit of Constitution […]
Track the latest Tables of Contents from thousands of scholarly journals
Journal TOCs is an excellent and free resource that helps you keep track of current tables of contents from your favorite journals. There are currently 309 law related journals and a total of over 14,250 journals in all with new journal titles added regularly. You can find tables of contents by searching for: journal titles; […]
Launch of Free-Access International Law Library
A new free international law site was released yesterday by Sir Kenneth James Keith, a judge of the International Court of Justice, and reported by Simon Foden on sLaw. The International Law Library was developed by AUSTLII and contains ...: "... over 80,000 searchable documents for free access. This includes over 25,000 decisions of International […]
Open Access Journals Bibliography
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has issued another useful bibliography in his ongoing series of bibliographies relating to digital scholarship. The latest addition is the Open Access Journals Bibliography. "This bibliography presents selected English-language scholarly works that are useful in understanding open access journals. It does not cover works about e-prints or works that include open […]
August 2 - August 20, 2010
BL 65 L33 K45 2010 Title: Law and religion in Chaucer's England / Henry Ansgar Kelly. Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate/Variorum, c2010. Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400--Criticism and interpretation. Subject: Canon law--History--To 1500. Subject: Religion and law--England--History--To 1500. Subject: Canon law in literature. K 103 L44 […]
New Editions of Three Canadian Legal Research & Writing Guides
Catherine Best, research lawyer at Boughton Law in Vancouver, has written an excellent review of the three current leading Canadian texts on legal research and writing. The review is worth reading not only for her clear analysis and constructive comments on the three books, but also for her own insights into best practices for conducting […]
July 26 - July 30, 2010
ELECTRONIC Title: IA Reporter [electronic resource]. Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Investment Arbitration Reporter, 2008?- Subject: Investments--Law and legislation. Subject: Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation. Subject: Arbitration and award, International. K 380 C65 2010 Title: Men, law, and gender : essays on the 'man' of law / Richard Collier. Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : […]
Rough Concensus and Running Code
Prof. Peer Zumbansen and his colleague, Prof. Gralf-Peter Calliess of the Faculty of Law of the Universität Bremen, have recently published Rough Concensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law with Hart Publishing. "Rough Consensus & Running Code is a provocative and important book. Thinking about law often is based on the assumption […]
July 19 - July 23, 2010
ELECTRONIC Title: Jurisdoctoria : revue doctorale de droit public comparé et de théorie juridique [electronic resource]. Publisher: Paris : Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne; 2008- Description: website. Subject: Comparative law. Subject: Jurisprudence. ELECTRONIC Title: House of Commons procedure and practice [electronic resource]. Publisher: [Ottawa, Ont. : House of Commons], 2009. Description: 1 electronic text. Subject: […]
Report on the Changing Face of the Legal Profession in Ontario
Michael Ornstein, Director of the ORU-Institute for Social Research here at York University, has prepared a report for the Law Society of Upper Canada entitled Racialization and Gender of Lawyers in Ontario. This report, tabled at a recent meeting of Convocation, reveals a remarkable shift in the demographic makeup of the legal profession in Ontario. […]