July 13 - July 17, 2009

DS 557.8 M9 I53 1998 Title: Individual and collective responsibility / edited by Peter A. French. Publisher: Rochester, Vt. : Schenkman Books, c1998. Description: xii, 297 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968. Subject: War crimes. FC 133 V67 1970 Title: Oeuvres politiques (extraits) / Denis Benjamin Viger. Publisher: Montreal, Une Réalisation […]

International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

This is a new legal journal recently launched by members of the European Legal Network. The journal will provide "analysis and comment on all aspects of Free and Open Source software." "Free and Open Source Software has increasingly come to challenge traditional concepts of intellectual property and collaboration by allowing every user to use, study, […]

July 6 - July 10, 2009

BX 5056 T53 2008 Title: A Protestant purgatory : theological origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779 / Laurie Throness. Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2008. Description: vi, 379 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Church of England--Influence. Subject: Church of England--Doctrines. Subject: Christianity and law--Church of England. Subject: Protestant churches--Doctrines. Subject: […]

Digitization of Publications Relating to the Parliament of Canada

This report describes the digitization efforts of the Library of Parliamentary and was recently posted to their web site and blogged about yesterday by "Library Boy" (aka Michel-Adrien Sheppard, Supreme Court Reference Librarian). "The goal [of the working paper] is to help inform the development of a coherent strategy amongst the various stakeholders to digitize, […]

June 29 - July 3, 2009

BL 2747.8 S345 2009 Title: Secularism, religion and multicultural citizenship / [edited by] Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood ; foreword by Charles Taylor. Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Description: xxiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Secularism. Subject: Multiculturalism. Subject: Religious pluralism. Subject: Islam--Relations. DH 566 […]

June 22 - 26, 2009

E 277 M37 1783 Title: The case and claim of the American loyalists impartially stated and considered. Publisher: [S.l. : s.n., 1783?] Description: 38 p. ; 22 x 29 cm. Subject: American loyalists. Subject: United States--Politics and government--1775-1783. FC 469 A5 M53 1774 Title: Lettre adressée aux habitans de la province de Quebec, ci-devant le […]

New "Justice Reporter" on Law and the Media

The Canadian Media Lawyers Association recently launched the Justice Reporter newsletter on their revised Ad IDEM website.  This new online (PDF) newsletter focuses on issues affecting journalism and the law. The newsletter was conceived and is edited by Tracey Tyler, legal affairs reporter at the Toronto Star, and Tony Wong, a litigation partner at Blake, […]

June 15 - 19, 2009

K 639 L54 2008 Title: Deprivation of liberty of children in light of international human rights law and standards / Ton Liefaard. Publisher: Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, c2008. Description: xxx, 696 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) Subject: Children's rights. Subject: Children's rights--Netherlands. Subject: Children (International law) […]