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 […]
Trans-Lex.org is a new research website focusing on transnational and international business law resources. It present resources in four primary categories: principles (“more than 120 principles and rules of transnational law, the New Lex Mercatoria”); bibliography; materials (“a collection of domestic statutes, international conventions, model laws, restatements and other soft-law instruments”); and links to other […]
Journal TOCs is an excellent and free resource that helps you keep track of current tables of contents from your favorite journals. There are currently 309 law related journals and a total of over 14,250 journals in all with new journal titles added regularly. You can find tables of contents by searching for: journal titles; […]
A new free international law site was released yesterday by Sir Kenneth James Keith, a judge of the International Court of Justice, and reported by Simon Foden on sLaw. The International Law Library was developed by AUSTLII and contains …: “… over 80,000 searchable documents for free access. This includes over 25,000 decisions of International […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our own Prof. Carys Craig has recently published the article “Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada: In Pursuit of ‘Prescriptive Parallelism’” in the Journal of World Intellectual Property (2010). A pre-peer reviewed version of the article is available on SSRN. Here’s the abstract of the article: “The enactment of anti-circumvention laws […]