The Fall 2010 session of the Supreme Court of Canada began earlier this week. Not everyone knows that electronic facta filed by the parties in cases before the Supreme Court of Canada are available on the Court’s website. This has been so for cases filed since February 2009. For example, if you want to find […]
Michel-Adrien Sheppard, Reference Librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada, alerted us over on sLaw this week to a couple of newly released intellectual property resources. The first is WIPO Lex a “a one-stop search facility for national laws and treaties on intellectual property (IP) of WIPO, WTO and UN Members.” Searches on the texts […]
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 You can take a look at the Constitution and a collection of other significant on the webpage of America’s Historical Documents, digitized and assembled by the US National Archives.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 […]
The European Community has placed a new online front end on its law-related offerings, aiming to make it easier to find what you want amid the welter of languages, systems, and regulations. The recently launched European e-Justice Portal (in English here) contains sections directed at the public, businesses, the legal profession, and the judiciary. Within […]
Full volumes of the Federal Courts Reports are now available on the Court’s website. While the Federal Courts Reports continue to be available in print and are available in the Osgoode Library (though currently in storage while the library is being renovated), but you can now access the same content online beginning with [2007] Volume […]
We have recently added the Bar Journals Library to our HeinOnline collection of resources. The Bar Journals Library includes more than 70 titles and offers the ability to connect to cited law review articles while you read bar journal papers. HeinOnline also lets you sort your search results by the most cited bar journal articles […]
The latest issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law has recently been released. Volume 18, Number 1 / March 2010 includes the following articles: Integrating induction and deduction for finding evidence of discrimination / Salvatore Ruggieri, Dino Pedreschi and Franco Turini Identification of Rhetorical Roles for Segmentation and Summarization of a Legal Judgment / M. Saravanan […]
The latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale is now available online. Volume 52, Number 4 / July 2010 includes the following articles: Media Constructions of Responsibility for the Production and Mitigation of Environmental Harms: The Case of Mercury-Contaminated Fish / Amy Fitzgerald, […]
It’s online, it’s Canadian and it’s free. What’s not to like about Irwin Law’s new Canadian Online Legal Dictionary? It has a clean, intuitive, easy-to-use interface. It can be browsed alphabetically or by topic, or you can search the full text by keyword. It provides links to related terms. It provides sources for all definitions […]
New articles on LLRX.com for May 2010. A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases / by Trevor Rosen and Andrew Zimmerman (updated) Forensic Evidence and the CSI Effect / by Ken Strutin Knowledge Discovery Resources 2010 : An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation / by Marcus P. Zillman Are You SharePoint-Ready? / by Lorette S.J. […]