If you’re like me you probably find you’re doing more and more reading online. There’s always an interesting web page or blog post to read somewhere. The trouble for me is that it’s sometimes difficult to adjust to different font styles from one page to another. And I also find the ads and navigational elements […]
As reported in Y-File this morning the summary report for the Expert Meeting on Corporate Law and Human Rights: Opportunities and Challenges of Using Corporate Law to Encourage Corporations to Respect Human Rights is now available. This event, hosted by Osgoode Hall Law School, took place in November of 2009 at the Osgoode Professional Development […]
Via CBC news. “The Truth in Sentencing Act was actually granted royal assent on Oct. 21, 2009, but came into effect on Monday.” Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/02/23/nicholson-truth-sentencing.html?ref=rss
Issues related to institutional repositories and the open access of scholarly work continue to gain momentum especially in academic environments in North America. So it’s interesting to consider research that falls outside of this usual scope such as the “Baseline Report” recently made available by the Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project. […]
With the Febrary 2010 content release, the following titles – all published by LexisNexis Canada – have been added to the Quicklaw databases. As of February 7, they will also be available on the LexisNexis Academic service. As you can see from the list, a broad selection of classic titles is included, from texts (McGuiness […]
Among the most important pieces of legislation that came into force on January 1 is a Quebec statute, an Act respecting the Compilation of Quebec Laws and Regulations, SQ 2009, c. 40 (version française: LQ 2009, c. 40). Pursuant to this Act, all consolidated statutes published by the Quebec Official Publisher (Editeur officiel du Québec) have official […]
This item is from Dominic Jaar’s post on today’s Slaw: Concluding twelve years of efforts from the members of the Judicial Technology Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council (JTAC), Justice Fran Kiteley, from the Ontario Superior Court and a former JTAC member, rendered the first judgment using exclusively neutral citation in R. v. Andrew […]
On January 4, York University Libraries (YUL) rolled out its new library catalogue search interface. It might not look too different at first glance, but the change to how and what it searches is profound. The new “discovery layer” interface merges all of YUL’s different catalogues and holdings into one seamless interface using an open-source software application called […]
Beginning this semester, the OnePass system for access to WestlawCanada is now in the second phase of implementation. All second and third year students, grad students and all faculty will be required to create or update their Username and Password to fully access WestlawCanada and TWEN (The West Education Network). The WestlawCanada law school site (www.westlawcanada/lawschool) […]
The Hamlyn Lectures, presented annually at the School of Law of the University of Exeter since 1949, have been digitized and are available on the school’s website. The page is not perfectly clear: you have to scroll to the bottom to find the the table that lists the lectures chronologically, with links to the PDFs. […]