There are two recent enhancements to Quicklaw's QuickCITE case law citator which deserve you attention. QuickCITE is the essential research tool that allows you to determine the history, status and importance of a case. First, LexisNexis Canada has added commentary references to QuickCITE. Researchers will be able to learn whether a case has been considered […]
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 […]
The Trouble with Billionaires, a new book by our own Professor Neil Brooks and Toronto Star columnist Linda McQuaig, has just published by Penguin Canada. In the book, they argue that the growth of an extremely rich elite is damaging to society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. You can […]
The collection The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver, edited by Catherine W. Ng (Lecturer in Law, University of Aberdeen), Lionel Bentley (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Cambridge University) and our own Prof. Giuseppina D'Agostino, has just been published by Hart Publishing, Oxford. Prof. Vaver, renowned both […]
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 You can take a look at the Constitution and a collection of other significant on the webpage of America's Historical Documents, digitized and assembled by the US National Archives.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our own Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Director of IP Osgoode, has just published her new book - Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules - with Edward Elgar Publishing. The library's copies of the book are on order and should be received shortly: you can check here for their status. Meanwhile, here's a brief description of […]