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 […]
HeinOnline will be introducing World Constitutions Illustrated in a webinar on Thursday, May 6th. There will be two sessions: one in the morning at 10:00am and the second at 2:00pm in the afternoon. “During the webinar we will explain how this library introduces a new legal research platform and how the scope of it is […]
The folks at HeinOnline are offering another training webinar this one on the Treaties and Agreements Library. There will be two half hour sessions held on Tuesday, April 13th; one in the morning at 10:00 and a second at 2:00. The session will provide an overview of the content and browsing options, take a look […]
The Law Library of Congress has been archiving legal blogs, or ‘blawgs’ since the beginning of March 2007. And as recently noted by Dan Cohen on Twitter this has become an ‘impressive’ resource. It’s been a year or so since the Legal Blawg Archive was first released to the public collecting “unique, born digital content” […]
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 […]
The folks at HeinOnline will be offering a webinar on Using & Searching the United Nations Law Collection later this month. There will be two opportunities to participate on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at either 10:00-10:30am or 2:00-2:30pm. The 30 minute session will be provide an overview of the publications, how to search treaties efficiently […]
Not sure how many of you followed the development of this free online legal research service. Apparently it has lost it’s funding and as a result is no longer able to continue. See this post on the Law Librarian Blog for more information and links to some background information including Joe Hodniki’s great interview with […]
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 […]
If you’ve been interested in Google’s recent activities in providing access to legal cases and legal research then you might also be interested in these two recent posts from the HeinOnline blog that compares their service to what Google Scholar has been offering. HeinOnline or Google Scholar? Why You Should Start Your Research in HeinOnline […]