Month: July 2016

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Summer Exam Hours and BC Day Closure

As we enter the end of the summer session, we wish all students the best for exams, papers, and assignments. We wish to ensure we offer all law students the support and study environment that is needed at this time. We alert all library users to the following updates and reminders:

  • The library will be closed on August 1st for BC Day.
  • Summer exam hours are now in effect until August 12:
Summer Exam Hours
Monday – Thursday 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Friday 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Finally, we trust all law library users will respect the increased need for quiet study at this time.

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New Titles in the Law Library – e-resources

Watch this space regularly for updates of new print and electronic titles received in or for the law library. We’ll supply the author, title, and call number information, as well as a link to the catalogue record where you can find out more about each title. This week’s list includes new e-resources.

Contextual subjects : family, state and relational theory – Robert Leckey. Electronic

Disability and justice : the capabilities approach in practice – Christopher A. Riddle. Electronic

Animal cruelty and freedom of speech : when worlds collide – Abigail Perdue and Randall Lockwood. Electronic

Affect and legal education emotion in learning and teaching the law – edited by Paul Maharg & Caroline Maughan. Electronic

Company law and sustainability : legal barriers and opportunities – edited by Beate Sjåfjell & Benjamin J. Richardson. Electronic

Critical legal perspectives on global governance: Liber amicorum David M. Trubek – edited by Gráinne de Búrca, Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott. Electronic

Global competition law, markets and globalization – David J. Gerber. Electronic

Law of refugee status – James C. Hathaway, Michelle Foster. Electronic

Not-for-profit law : theoretical and comparative perspectives – edited by Matthew Harding, Ann O’Connell & Miranda Stewart. Electronic

Philosophical foundations of fiduciary law – edited by Andrew S Gold and Paul B Miller. Electronic

Philosophy of private law – William Lucy. Electronic

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Section 35 Métis Rights and the Manitoba Metis Federation Decision

Metis Report

Thomas Isaac,  the Ministerial Special Representative to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada,  released his report on Métis reconciliation yesterday. Last June Mr. Isaac was appointed by the federal government to lead engagement with the Métis organizations and other interested parties to set out a framework for dialogue on Métis rights and reconciliation in response to the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Manitoba Metis Federation et al v Canada, 2013 SCC 14.

You can read Mr. Isaac’s report and background information about the report here.

For more background information check out these items at UVic Libraries:

  • “Métis” : race, recognition, and the struggle for indigenous peoplehood – Chris Andersen. ELECTRONIC;  FC109 A53 2014
  • Métis in Canada : history, identity, law & politics – edited by Christopher Adams, Gregg Dahl & Ian Peach. FC109 M492 2013
  • Métis-Crown relations : rights, identity, jurisdiction and governance – Frederica Wilson & Melanie Mallet, editors. ELECTRONIC; FC125 M48
  • Métis rights – Thomas Isaac. E99 M47 I83
  • From recognition to reconciliation : essays on the constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal and treaty rights – edited by Patrick Macklem and Douglas Sanderson. KIB1810 F76 2016
  • From new peoples to new nations : aspects of Métis history and identity from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries – Gerhard J. Ens and Joe Sawchuk. E99 M47E57 2016
  • “The people who own themselves” : recognition of Métis identity in Canada : report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples –  The Honourable Vernon White, chair ; The Honourable Lillian Eva Dyck, deputy chair. ELECTRONIC
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Quebec legislation now free on LégisQuébec

The Québec Official Publisher recently replaced its paid subscription website with a new bilingual site LégisQuébec for distributing its collection of official Quebec Laws and Regulations. Quebec now joins the growing number of jurisdictions in Canada that are making their online collections of legislation available to the public for free.

The collection includes:

  • Consolidated Statutes and Regulations (in HTML, PDF, and EPUB)
  • Annual Statutes and Regulations (in HTML and EPUB since 2016; in PDF since 1996)
  • Table of Amendments (Statutes)
  • Table of Provisions not in force
  • Table of Provisions brought into force

In the words of Publications Québec – “Bonne consultation!”

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New Titles in the Law Library – Corruption

Watch this space regularly for updates of new print and electronic titles received in or for the law library. We’ll supply the author, title, and call number information, as well as a link to the catalogue record where you can find out more about each title. This update includes titles on corruption law:

  • Combating corruption : legal approaches to supporting good governance and integrity in Africa – John Hatchard. KQC982 C65H38 2014
  • Corruption and conflicts of interest : a comparative law approach – edited by Jean-Bernard Auby, France, Emmanuel Breen, Thomas Perroud. K3174 C67 2014
  • Corruption and legislatures – Riccardo Pelizzo and Frederick Stapenhurst. ELECTRONIC
  • Corruption and legislatures – Riccardo Pelizzo and Frederick Stapenhurst. ELECTRONIC
  • Corruption and misuse of public office – Colin Nicholls. KD8045 C67 2011
  • Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Handbook : a practical guide for multinational general counsel, transactional lawyers and white collar criminal practitioners – Robert W. Tarun. KF9351 T37 2013
  • Internationalisation of corruption scale, impact and countermeasures – Clare Fletcher and Daniela Herrmann. ELECTRONIC
  • Law of fraud and the forensic investigator – David Debenham. KE8973 D42 2012
  • Modern bribery law : comparative perspectives – edited by Jeremy Horder and Peter Alldridge. ELECTRONIC
  • Regulating corporate bribery in international business : anti-corruption in the UK and Germany / Nicholas Lord, University of Manchester, UK. ELECTRONIC
  • Research handbook on money laundering – edited by Brigitte Unger, Daan van der Linde. HV6768 R47 2013
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South China Sea Arbitration

The Permanent Court of Arbitration released its unanimous arbitral award yesterday (July 12, 2016) in  The Republic of Philippines v. The People’s Republic of China. The arbitration between the Philippines and China concerned the status of certain maritime rights of the respective parties and the lawfulness of certain actions by China under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration’s press release and Award can be read here.

To learn more about the dispute, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, check out these resources at UVic Libraries:

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New Titles in the Law Library – Contracts, Torts and Trusts

Watch this space regularly for updates of new print and electronic titles received in or for the law library. We’ll supply the author, title, and call number information, as well as a link to the catalogue record where you can find out more about each title. This week’s list includes new titles on contracts, tax and trust.

  • Canadian contract law – Angela Swan, Jakub Adamski. Call Number: KE850 S93 2012
  • Contracts : cases and commentaries – edited by Stephanie Ben-Ishai & David Percy. Call Number: KE850 A7C66 2014
  • Philosophical foundations of contract law – edited by Gregory Klass, George Letsas, and Prince Saprai. ELECTRONIC
  • Canadian income tax law – David G. Duff [and others]. Call Number: KE5759 C34 2012
  • Delicate balance : tax, discretion and the rule of law- editors, Chris Evans, Judith Freedman, Richard Krever. Call Number: K4466 D45 2011
  • Economic substance and tax avoidance : an international perspective – Robert McMechan. Call Number: KE5683 M39 2013
  • International taxation in Canada : principles and practices – Jinyan Li, Arthur Cockfield, J. Scott Wilkie. Call Number: KE5695 L5 2014
  • Quest for tax reform continues : the Royal Commission on Taxation fifty years later – edited by Kim Brooks. Call Number: KE5759 Q485
  • Worlds of the trust – edited by Lionel Smith. ELECTRONIC
  • Oosterhoff on trusts : text, commentary and materials – by A.H. Oosterhoff, Robert Chambers, Mitchell McInnes. Call Number: KE787 A7 O67 2014
  • Trusts in common-law Canada – Dennis Pavlich. Call Number: KE787 P39 2014
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New Titles in the Law Library

Watch this space regularly for updates of new print and electronic titles received in or for the law library. We’ll supply the author, title, and call number information, as well as a link to the catalogue record where you can find out more about each title.

  • What the best law teachers do – Michael Hunter Schwartz, Gerald F. Hess, Sophie M. Sparrow. ELECTRONIC and Call Number: K100 S39 2012
  • Advertising and marketing law in Canada – Brenda Pritchard & Susan Vogt. Call Number: KE1610 P75 2012
  • Bellamy & Child materials on European Union law of competition – edited by Andrew Macnab. Call Number: KJE6456 A4M38 2014
  • British Columbia family law practice – Carol Mahood Huddart, Trudi L. Brown. Call Number: KEB194 H88 2014
  • Capacity and undue influence – John E.S. Poyser. Call Number: KE507 P69 2014
  • Charitable giving in Canada – Maria Elena Hoffstein and Laura Elizabeth West. Call Number: KE5814 H64 2013
  • Children’s socio-economic rights, democracy and the courts – Aoife Nolan. Call Number: K639 N65 2014
  • Compliance and enforcement in environmental law : toward more effective implementation – edited by LeRoy Paddock [et al.]. Call Number: K3585 C6585 2011
  • Copyfight : the global politics of digital copyright reform – Blayne Haggart. Call Number: K1420.5 H34 2014
  • Undoing the demos : neoliberalism’s stealth revolution – Wendy Brown. Call Number: JC574 B766