You may not be aware of how comprehensive HeinOnline's World Consitutions Illustrated service really is. It's much more than just primary source materials. It also includes a large and growing collection (mostly historical) of scholarly monographic texts on constitutional law. With the March release, more than 2,160 books are now available. Here's just a sample […]
The library now has access to the Australian Law Dictionary online -- part of the Oxford University Press "Digital Reference Shelf" service. Access is provided from both the Osgoode and York University e-resources databases. This is a new (2010) publication, edited by Prof. Trischa Mann of the Australian National University. The Australian Law Dictionary is […]
The Trouble with Billionaires, a new book by our own Professor Neil Brooks and Toronto Star columnist Linda McQuaig, has just published by Penguin Canada. In the book, they argue that the growth of an extremely rich elite is damaging to society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. You can […]
For anyone interested in a sneak preview of this new book edited by Michael Geist, you'll find the introductory chapter available on the Irwin Law website. From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda will be issued by Irwin Law this month and we should have a both a print and […]
The collection The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver, edited by Catherine W. Ng (Lecturer in Law, University of Aberdeen), Lionel Bentley (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Cambridge University) and our own Prof. Giuseppina D'Agostino, has just been published by Hart Publishing, Oxford. Prof. Vaver, renowned both […]
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 […]
Prof. Peer Zumbansen and his colleague, Prof. Gralf-Peter Calliess of the Faculty of Law of the Universität Bremen, have recently published Rough Concensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law with Hart Publishing. "Rough Consensus & Running Code is a provocative and important book. Thinking about law often is based on the assumption […]
Our own Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Director of IP Osgoode, has just published her new book - Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules - with Edward Elgar Publishing. The library's copies of the book are on order and should be received shortly: you can check here for their status. Meanwhile, here's a brief description of […]
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 […]
With a rather provocative title Richard Susskind's recent book, 'The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services?', has garnered a little bit of attention in the legal world. Jacquie McNish writing in the Globe & Mail said: "... his futurism is rattling the profession ..." If you haven't yet had a chance to […]