March 8 is commemorated as International Women’s Day (IWD) to recognize the spirit of determination and courage by women in their countries and communities. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women globally. Status of Women Canada’s 2017 theme is titled “Equality Matters”. See more here – http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/commemoration/iwd-jif/theme-en.html UN Women’s 2017 theme […]
Osgoode Digital Commons, the institutional repository and digital archive of Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, offering world-wide access to the research and publications of the School’s scholarly community, achieved a significant milestone when it reached one million downloads in the early morning of Monday, November 21, 2016, less than three years since its […]
Please join us at the Law Library for these Library Pop-UP Workshops: Finding Statutes and/or Amendment to Statutes on HeinOnline Date: 9-Nov-2016 Time: 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM Location: Law Library Upper Floor Let’s talk about legal citation Date: 16-Nov-2016 Time: 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM Location: Law Library Upper Floor See you there!
The Osgoode Hall Law School Library is proud to be hosting the highly acclaimed international exhibition “Lawyers without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich”. The exhibition was prepared by the German Federal Bar (Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer) and was translated into English and prepared for exhibit in North America by the American Bar Association. It has […]
Brush up on your online legal research skills. Join us for a refresher WestlawNext Canada training session this Monday, October 26 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM in room 2011. If you would like to attend please email library@osgoode.yorku.ca.
The CCH Online training scheduled for Wednesday March 18 has been moved to a webinar format. Instructions on how to register for the webinar here – CCHOnlineWebinarMarch18.
We thought we’d start the new year with a new series of posts on the artworks that can be seen in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library. We thought we’d start with this piece, the largest in the library, which hangs prominently near library entrance, dominating the stairway between the library’s two floors. Roy Kiyooka […]
It’s the last week of exams before the New Year holiday break at Osgoode. The students are stressed. We have seen them doing jumping jacks in the group study rooms. So we weren’t so surprised when we discovered this expression of student anxiety while closing the library last night. What can it mean? I put […]
Past exams come very handy and useful at this time of the year. They are available through the My Osgoode page; log in required. Print version for previous years are available on the last shelf in the Upper Floor of the Law Library. To access them online, on the My Osgoode page under the subheading […]
York University Libraries will celebrate International Open Access Week from Oct. 20 to 26. Open Access Week is a global campaign that promotes open access as an ideal for the dissemination of scholarship and research. On Oct. 24, to reflect this year’s theme “Generation Open,” the libraries will host a movie screening and talk by Carys Craig, […]