September 2016 – Hearsay: UVic Law Library

September 27, 2016September 26, 2016

Law Library Open House 2016: Thanks!

Our thanks to all students who attended the Law Library’s Open House last week, and to the staff and UVic Librarians who made it happen!

Students were able receive legal research and resource guidance from our Law Librarians, Alex and Caron. Law library loan desk staff were also on hand to answer questions about the services available here.

Justin, Learning Commons Librarian, and Bill, Music and Media Librarian were on hand to let law students know about the resources, learning services, and gadgets available over there.

Ryan, technician at McPherson, made the trip over to help students set up wireless printing and get tech support advice.

Darcy and Leigh from the Faculty of Law’s Amicus program also attended to explain their program and let students know of the academic, wellness, and cultural support available to law students through Amicus.

(And 1Ls: If you weren’t able to pick up passwords to the two law school databases that require them (WestlawNext Canada and Lexis Advance Quicklaw), watch for word from your LRW instructors on how to get them.)

And, of course, we look forward to continuing to see you in the law throughout the year!

September 26, 2016September 26, 2016

Appeal – Call for Submissions

Appeal: Review of Current Law and Law Reform is currently accepting submissions for volume 22, to be published in Spring 2017.

Appeal is a student run law journal published at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law. Appeal publishes articles, case comments and book reviews offering insightful commentary on Canadian law and comparative law.

The deadline for submissions is October 7, 2016. Send submissions electronically to appeal@uvic.ca. For further details including submission guidelines visit the Appeal website.

September 19, 2016September 19, 2016

Law Library Open House – Come on in!

Join us for our Law Library Open House this Wednesday (September 21) from 12:00 – 1:30 pm!

1Ls, upper year students and faculty – come chat with librarians and staff from across UVic libraries and the Amicus team while enjoying light snacks and refreshments.

Discover the wide array of services and resources offered in the UVic Libraries
Find out what your librarian can do for you
Configure your laptop for wireless printing on campus and for seamless research off-campus
Plus much more …

1Ls – this will also be an opportunity to pick up your passwords for Lexis Advance Quicklaw and WestlawNext Canada legal research databases.

The Library Open House is open to all students and faculty.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided!

September 15, 2016

Congratulations, Dr Carol Liao

Congratulations to UVic Law Assistant Professor Carol Liao, who recently successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Her PhD, achieved jointly with University of Toronto and University of British Columbia, is entitled “For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Hybrid: The Global Emergence of Legally ‘Good’ Corporations and the Canadian Experiment.”

Check out some of Dr Liao’s other scholarship held in the UVic Libraries collections:

Liao, C. (2012). Corporate governance reform for the 21st century: A critical reassessment of the shareholder primacy model. Ottawa Law Review, 43(2), 187.
Liao, C. (2014). A canadian model of corporate governance. Dalhousie Law Journal, 37(2), 559.
Liao, C. (2013). The next stage of CSR for canada: Transformational corporate governance, hybrid legal structures, and the growth of social enterprise. McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, 9(1), 53-85.
Liao, C. (2012). Designing social value architecture for the for-profit company. Canadian Review of Social Policy, (67), 85.
Ford, C., & Liao, C. (2010). Power without property, still: Unger, berle, and the derivatives revolution. Seattle University Law Review, 33(4), 889.
Liao, C. (2015). Limits to corporate reform and alternative legal structures. (pp. 274-311). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107337978.009

And, of course, Professor Liao’s teaching excellence and commitment to student learning was recognized this spring by receipt of the First Year Class Teaching Award.

Congratulations!

September 12, 2016September 13, 2016

Research Help Desk

Research help desk hours for the fall semester have been set and will start on Monday, September 19th.

Monday – Thursday	11:30 am – 1:30 pm 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Friday	(by appointment or email via lawref@uvic.ca).

While the Research Help Desk hours haven’t yet started for the term, you are encouraged to contact the librarians if you require research help this week.

The librarians receive email (lawref@uvic.ca) and phone messages (250–472-5023) and will respond as quickly as possible. You may also make an appointment with a librarian for research help via the staff at the library loan desk.

September 9, 2016September 9, 2016

Jeremy Webber to be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to Jeremy Webber, Dean of Law, who will be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Webber will be inducted as a Fellow on November 18th at Royal Society of Canada’s Induction and Awards Ceremony in Kingston, Ontario.

Election to the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honour granted to Canadian scholars in the fields of arts, humanities and sciences.

From the Royal Society of Canada citation:

Jeremy Webber, Trudeau Fellow and twice-appointed Canada Research Chair in Law and Society, is among the world’s most influential scholars in constitutional theory and legal pluralism. He has made outstanding contributions to both Canada and other countries on issues of constitutional reform, Indigenous rights, religious freedom, transitional justice and minority rights…

You can read Webber’s full RSC citation here and more about his induction in UVic News.

Webber has produced a number of groundbreaking works over the past 30 years including two authored and one coauthored books, four edited books, and over 60 book chapters and articles. Below are just a sample of the publications Webber wrote or contributed to:

The Constitution of Canada : A Contextual Analysis / Jeremy Webber (2015). Call number: KE4219 W42 2015
Recognition Versus Self-Determination : Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics / edited by Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard, and Andrée Boisselle (2014). Call number: GN495.4 R43 2014
“A Two-Level Justification for Religious Toleration” (2014) 4 Journal of Indian Law and Society 1. Online
Storied Communities : Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community / edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber (2011). Call number JC311 S84 2011
Between Consenting Peoples : Political Community and the Meaning of Consent / edited by Jeremy Webber and Colin M Macleod (2010). Call number: JC328.2 B465 2010
“The Grammar of Customary Law” (2009) 54 McGill Law Journal 579. Online
Let Right be Done : Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights / edited by Hamar Foster, Heather Raven, and Jeremy Webber (2007). Call number: KE7715 L47 2007
“Legal Pluralism and Human Agency” (2005) 44:1 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 167. Online
“Beyond Regret: Mabo’s Implications for Australian Constitutionalism” in Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples edited by Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders (2000). Call number GN380 P65
Reimagining Canada : Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution / Jeremy Webber (1993). Call number: JL27.5 W42 1993 and Online

September 8, 2016September 8, 2016

Work-study positions at the Law Library

Work-study positions are available at the Law Library!

Two work-study opportunities at the Law Library for law students in the JD program are now posted on the UVic Student Awards and Financial Aid site. Although two positions are posted, hours may be shared among multiple successful applicants—so we can hire more than two students! Hours can also be flexibly scheduled.

See the SAFA site for the two postings.

Some guidelines:

1. Applicants must be eligible for the Work Study Program. See here for details: https://www.uvic.ca/registrar/safa/work-study/index.php

2. We’d love to have successful applicants join us in the first week of October. We’ll interview on a rolling basis starting next week, so please submit your application per the instructions on the posting as soon as you can.

September 2, 2016September 6, 2016

Welcome 2016-2017 students

To new UVic Law students, welcome, and to returning students, welcome back!

We are excited to work with you to facilitate your learning and research in 2016-2017.

To new upper year students, Law Librarians Caron Rollins and Alexander Burdett and Staff Senior Supervisor Marisa Lousier welcome you to a tour of and orientation to library services and resources at 12:30 pm.

And all first year students, Caron, Alex, and Marisa look forward to showing you the library and our resources and services during your allotted block from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Here are the law library’s fall term regular hours:

Monday – Thursday:	8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday:	8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday:	10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Our hours change at exams and between terms. Full details are available here. Research help hours will be posted shortly—look for signs at the research help desk and loan desk, and watch for a post here.

For full details on Law’s orientation for new students, visit UVic Law’s orientation for new students page.