Interesting post about Dominic Jaar’s article in Driot Inc. by John Gregory in yesterday’s Slaw offerings: Is a Printed Document Defective in Law? “It is certainly well known that requests for electronic discovery generally specify that documents are to be produced in their native format, in order to capture the metadata. Is this a sign […]
Library Boy Digitization of Older Canadian Parliamentary Publications CANLII Improvements Made to Legislative Materials SLAW Mobile access for Westlaw Canada Legal Informatics Charbonneau on Free Access to Law in the Era of User-Generated Content
Well, there’s a new SSRN iPhone app just for you. iSSRN, a free iPhone App, is now available . “It provides instant access to the latest Social Science and Humanities research in the SSRN eLibrary from scholars around the world.” The full story is on Gerry McKiernan’s Mobile Libraries blog.
The new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came into existence on October 1 and is now highest court in the land. Replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the Court’s creation is a landmark moment in constitutional and legal development for the UK. It is the final court of appeal in the […]
Recognizing the profound impact of several recent and important decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada on section 24(2) jurisprudence and the law of evidence, Irwin Law has rewritten chapter 9 of David Paciocco’s The Law of Evidence, 5th ed. (2008). Irwin’s message is as follows. The full text of the revised chapter is available […]
Due to unforeseen delays with electrical and network connections, we will not be able to open Osgoode Library Services until Tuesday morning (Sept. 8 – the day after Labour Day) at 8:00 a.m. Our library hours will be as posted on the Osgoode Library website. As a reminder, Osgoode Library Services is located next door […]
The Osgoode Hall Law School Library is moving! Construction on the renovation and expansion of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, including complete renovation of the law library, will begin this September. The library will be moving in stages over the next two weeks, beginning Monday, August 17. To facilitate the move, the library […]
To avoid disruptions and allow the library staff to reorganize the collection prior to moving, the Osgoode Law Library will be closed on Fridays and weekends until the end of August. The library’s opening hours during the reorganization will be Monday through Wednesday from 9:30am to 4:30pm and Thursday from 9:30am to 9pm. The library will resume […]
The Osgoode Law Library has begun implementing its relocation plan in advance of the renovation and construction of the law school that is scheduled to start this September. Effective immediately, all texts in the call number range KF 396 to KF 5500 will be located on the fourth floor of the Scott Library. The remainder of the Osgoode […]
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, […]