Osgoode Digital Commons: One Million Downloads and Still Counting!

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 […]

Library Pop-Up Workshops

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!

Exhibit in the Osgoode Library - Lawyers without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany under the Third Reich

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 […]

WestlawNext Canada training for upper year and graduate students

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.

CCH Online Training Webinar

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.

Art in the Osgoode Law Library (1): Roy Kiyooka, Homage to Ben Nicholson, 1967

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 […]

Festive Footstools and Best Wishes from the Osgoode Library

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 Examination Papers are Available Online & Print

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 […]

Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week with screening of "The Internet’s Own Boy"

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, […]

‘Road to Justice’ Exhibit in Osgoode Library Examines Historical Discriminatory Treatment of Immigrants in Canada

Road to Justice, a new exhibit which opens today in the Osgoode Library, documents the historical discriminatory treatment of Chinese Canadians and other immigrants of colour in Canada, the communities’ triumph over racism and the lessons Canadians can learn from history. The exhibit will be on display in the library until Friday, October 3, during […]