The University of Wisconsin Law Library announced today the release of the J. Willard Hurst Collection. Hurst is, "... the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal history." "The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst’s death in 1997. ... The collection includes Hurst’s personal outlines and notes; course texts; publications; […]
THE WEEK OF June 8 - June 12, 2009
K 230 W29 A38 2009 Title: Understanding jurisprudence : an introduction to legal theory / Raymond Wacks. Publisher: Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2009. Description: xxiv, 392 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: Jurisprudence. Subject: Law--Philosophy. K 1505 P37 2008 Title: Patent law and theory : a handbook of contemporary research / edited by […]
THE WEEK OF June 1 - June 5, 2009
HD 7105.35 A7 R67 2004 Title: Las pensiones por vejez frente al derecho a la seguridad social / equipo de investigacion, Julieta Rossi y Luis Campos. Publisher: Buenos Aires : CELS, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, c2004. Description: 77 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subject: Old age pensions--Argentina. Subject: Social security--Law and legislation--Argentina. […]
Smalley-Baker Lab Closing for Maintenance
Effective Wednesday, June 10, the Smalley-Baker Student Computer Lab will be closed for a minimum of two weeks so that the IT group can do maintenance on the equipment in the room and to make preparations for the eventual relocation of the library for the impending renovations to the law school. Osgoode law students are […]
June 8 - June 12, 2009
SUBJECT HEADINGS – A – Actions and Defenses — Great Britain The illegality defence: a consultative report. The Law Commission. London: TSO, 2009. KF 9240 G753 2009 Agency (Law) — Canada Harvey, Cameron. Agency law primer. 4th ed. Toronto: Carswell, 2009. KF 1345 H37 2009 Appellate Courts — Commonwealth Countries Thompson-Barrow, Cheryl. Bringing justice home: […]
Justice Laws Website Now Official
The Consolidated Federal Statutes and Regulations on the Justice Laws Website are now official and are admissible as evidence in court. This is the result of the coming into force on that date of amendments made to the Statute Revision Act, which has been renamed the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act. To see the relevant […]
June 1 - June 5, 2009
SUBJECT HEADINGS – A – Actions and Defenses — Netherlands Hooijdonk, Marieke van. Litigation in the Netherlands: civil procedure, arbitration, and administrative litigation. Austin: W. Kluwer Law & Business, 2009. KKM 1666 H66 2009 Antitrust Law Leoni, Bruno. Law, liberty, and the competitive market. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009. K 3850 L46 2009 Asylum, […]
WolframAlpha Search Engine and Legal Research
You may have heard the buzz about this new search engine WolframAlpha which it's creator, Stephen Wolfram, has dubbed a 'computational knowledge engine.' How does this search engine do when tasked with legal research type questions? Rob Richards, over at the Legal Informatics Blog, has summarized a discussion he's been hosting there. So far it […]
Richard Susskind talks about the 'End of Lawyers?'
With a rather provocative title Richard Susskind's recent book, 'The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services?', has garnered a little bit of attention in the legal world. Jacquie McNish writing in the Globe & Mail said: "... his futurism is rattling the profession ..." If you haven't yet had a chance to […]
May 25 - May 29, 2009
SUBJECT HEADINGS – A – Animal Welfare — Law and Legislation — Australasia Animal law in Australasia: a new dialogue. Editors: Peter Sankoff, Steven White. Annandale, NSW: Federation Press, 2009. KF 3841 A95 2009 Antitrust Law — Economic Aspects McNutt, Patrick A. Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: E. […]