Every first-year law student is taught the thin-skull principle, wherein the tortfeasor finds the victim as they find them, even if they have a pre-existing condition. I've been thinking about this over the past few weeks as I've been laid up at home recovering from a concussion and making the slow return to "normal" day-to-day […]
Open access is an important thing to think about whenever you are creating or consuming scholarship. And it’s not important just because it happens to be Open Access Week. Richard A. Danner talks about the importance of legal scholarship in his article, “Open Access to Legal Scholarship: Dropping the Barriers to Discourse and Dialogue.” “Legal […]
The Law Library is pleased to offer additional training sessions for online services for those who couldn't attend previous sessions. We have scheduled the following sessions: CCH Online: Wednesday October 9 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM - Room 2011 Westlaw: Tuesday October 15 from 1.00 PM to 2.00 PM - Room 2011 Quicklaw and […]
On September 19, CanLII introduced its new user interface. Don’t be startled by the new homepage: you can either use the “everything” search box that initially appears for doing a keyword, citation, case name or statute name search, or you can click on the “+” to the left of that box to give yourself the […]
Brush up on your online searching skills! The Law Library is pleased to offer training sessions for the following databases: 1) Westlaw - Canadian content: Monday Sept. 23 from 12:40 to 1:30 2) Westlaw - American content: Monday Sept. 23 from 1:30 to 2:20 3) Quicklaw: Monday, Sept. 30 from 12:40 to […]
It's that time of year! The 1Ls are being initiated into the ways of the law student today, and soon the rest of the Osgoode community will return from what was hopefully an extremely relaxing and invigorating summer next week. While I'm sure that many students are not even thinking about the library while it's […]
For the very first time, the renowned International Law Reports (ILR), published by Cambridge University Press, are now available on Justis complete with PDFs of the original reports. Now all decisions and other documents published in the ILRs can be downloaded or printed in the "official, as reported" format. The Justis online legal library is […]
In the wake of this year's spate of wild (and wildly destructive) weather, including July 8th's record-breaking torrential deluge that flooded swathes of the city, crippling transit, leaving thousands without power for days, and which will ultimately cost upwards of $600 million in property damage, there are a number of questions of a legal nature that […]
Our friend Carole Hinchcliffe, head of the law library at University of Melbourne Law School, informs us that their new blog Opinions on High went live today. The blog airms to provide a public forum for discussion of the judicial decisions of the High Court of Australia by providing commentary on and analysis of recent High […]
Following on our subscription to the Foreign Law Guide this spring, we have subscribed to the Making of Modern Law's latest database: Foreign Primary Sources 1600 - 1970. This is the first of a proposed two "volumes," and contains statutes, regulations, codes and commentaries of Great Britain, Ireland and countries in northern, central and eastern […]