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.

  • Cross-examination: the art of the advocate – Honourable Roger E. Salhany. Call Number: KE8427 S24 2016
  • Misfeasance in a public office – Erika Chamberlain. Call Number: KE9020 C43 2016
  • The law of contempt in Canada – Jeffrey Miller. Call Number: KE9028 M55 2016
  • Annotated rules of the Court of Queen’s Bench of the Province of Saskatchewan, 1976 – Bonita J. Rourke. Call Number: KES5354 A33 1977
  • Grammar, punctuation & style: a quick guide for lawyers and other writers – Deborah Cupples. Call Number: KF250 C73 2013
  • Lawyer regulation for a new century: report of the Commission on Evaluation of Disciplinary Enforcement – ABA. Call Number: KF308 A526 1992
  • Modern consumer law – Katherine Porter. Call Number: KF1609 P669 2016
  • Environmental crime: law, policy, prosecution – Kathleen F. Brickey. Call Number: KF3775 B725 2008
  • A context and practice global case file: an intersex athlete’s constitutional challenge, Hastings v. USATF, IAAF, and IOC – Olivia M. Farrar. Call Number: KF8741 A52W37 2009
  • A treatise on the law of municipal corporations – Eugene McQuillin. Call Number: KF5305 M29
  • The Washington Post Supreme Court year in review 2009: the major cases and decisions of 2008. Call Number: KF8741 A52W37 2009
  • The law on the use of force: a feminist analysis – Gina Heathcote. Call Number: KZ6355 H43 2012
  • Latin for lawyers. Call Number: PA2091 L3 1960
  • Rescuing science from politics: regulation and the distortion of scientific research – Edited by Wendy Wagner. Call Number: Q125 R4178 2006
  • National Energy Board report in the matter of NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd.: application dated 14 October 2011 for the northwest mainline Komie North extension. Call Number: TN880.5 C454
  • Empty promises: why workplace pension law doesn’t deliver pensions – Elizabeth J. Shilton.ELECTRONIC
  • Foreign relations law – Campbell McLachlan. ELECTRONIC
  • In search of the ethical lawyer : stories from the Canadian legal profession – Edited by Adam Dodek ELECTRONIC
  • La détention avant jugement au Canada: une pratique controversée – sous la direction de Marion Vacheret et Fernanda Prates. ELECTRONIC
  • Resolving claims to self-determination: is there a role for the International Court of Justice and other legal tribunals? – Andrew K. Coleman. ELECTRONIC

 

Historical Provincial Statutes – Now Available on HeinOnline

On Tuesday, HeinOnline launched its Provincial Statutes of Canada collection containing the annual and revised statutes of each Canadian province. The collection adds to HeinOnline’s growing collection of Canadian primary materials which includes a complete collection of the Annual Statutes of Canada (1792-2014)  and Revised Statutes of Canada.

While the Provincial Statutes of Canada collection is not complete, the collection will be a benefit to researchers who do not have access to a print collection. Researchers can expect the collection to grow as HeinOnline adds more coverage for each of the provinces in the future.

The collection includes:

British Columbia

  • Annual Statutes of British Columbia (1872-1990)
  • Laws of British Columbia, Consisting of the Acts, Ordinances, & Proclamations of the Formerly Separate Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and of the United Colony of British Columbia (1871)
  • Consolidated Statutes of British Columbia, Consisting of the Acts, Ordinances and Proclamations of the Formerly Separate Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia (1877)
  • Statutes of British Columbia up to and including the Year 1888
  • Revised Statutes of British Columbia (1897, 1911, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1979)

Alberta

  • Statutes of Alberta (1906-2015)
  • Revised Statutes of Alberta (1922, 1942, 1955, 1970, 1980, 2000)

Saskatchewan

  • Statutes of the Province of Saskatchewan (1906-1965)
  • Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan (1909, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1953, 1965)

Manitoba

  • Acts of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba (1871-1965)
  • Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba 1880
  • Revised Statutes of Manitoba (1902, 1913, 1924, 1940, 1954)

Ontario

  • Statutes of Ontario (1867-2014)
  • Revised Statutes of Ontario (1877, 1887, 1897, 1914, 1927, 1937, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990)

Quebec

  • Statuts de la Province de Quebec (1867- 1965)
  • Revised Acts and Ordinances of Lower-Canada (1845)
  • Consolidated Statutes of Lower Canada (1861)
  • Statuts Refondus de la Province de Quebec (1888, 1909, 1925, 1941, 1964)

New Brunswick

  • Acts of the Province of New Brunswick (1786-1973)
  • Revised Statutes of New Brunswick (1854, 1877, 1903, 1927, 1952, 1973)

Prince Edward Island

  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island (1860-1965)
  • Revised Statutes of Prince Edward Island (1951)
  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, from the Establishment of the Legislature, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Late Majesty King George the Third, A.D. 1773, to the Fourth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King William (1834)
  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, from the Establishment of the Legislature, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, A.D. 1773, to the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria (1851-1852)
  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island from the Establishment of the Legislature, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, A.D. 1773 to the Thirty-First Year of the Reign of Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria (1862-1868)
  • Private and Local Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island (1862-1868)

Nova Scotia

  • Statutes of Nova Scotia (1836-1965)
  • Statutes at Large, Passed in the Several General Assemblies Held in His Majesty’s Province of Nova-Scotia  (1758-1835)
  • Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia (1851, 1859, 1864, 1873, 1884, 1900, 1923, 1954, 1967, 1989)

Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Statutes of Newfoundland (1845-1965)
  • Consolidated Statutes of Newfoundland (1874, 1896, 1919)
  • Revised Statutes of Newfoundland (1952)

Professor Val Napoleon awarded Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel Award

Congratulations to Professor Val Napoleon, who was awarded the Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel designation from the Indigenous Bar Association at this year’s IBA Annual Conference on October 14. The Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel designation is awarded to an Aboriginal lawyer in recognition of outstanding achievements in the practice of law and service to her community and the Creator.

Val is the Law Foundation Chair of Aboriginal Justice and Governance and the Director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit at UVic and is a leading scholar in Indigenous law in Canada.

Check out some of Professor Napoleon’s scholarship held in the UVic Libraries collections:

  • Val Napoleon, “Tsilhqot’in Law of Consent” (2015) 48:3 University of British Columbia Law Review 873.
  • Val Napoleon & Hadley Friedland, “Gathering the Threads: Developing a Methodology for Researching and Rebuilding Indigenous Legal Traditions” (2015) 1:1 Lakehead Law Journal 16.
  • Emily Snyder, Val Napoleon & John Burrows, “Gender and Violence: Drawing on Indigenous Legal Resources” (2015) 48:2 University of British Columbia Law Review 593.
  • Val Napoleon & Hadley Friedland, “Accessing Tully: Political Philosophy for the Everyday and the Everyone” in Robert Nichols & Jakeet Singh, eds, Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully (New York: Routledge, 2014). Call Number: JC423 F7517 2014
  • Val Napoleon, “Thinking about Indigenous Legal Orders” in René Provost & Colleen Sheppard, eds, Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (New York: Springer, 2013). ELECTRONIC
  • Val Napoleon, “Living Together: Gitksan Legal Reasoning as a Foundation for Consent” in Jeremy Webber & Colin McLeod, eds, Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010). Call Number: JC328.2 B465 2010
  • Val Napoleon “Aboriginal Discourse: Gender, Identity and Community” in Benjamin J Richardson, Shin Imai & Kent McNeil, eds, Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives (Oxford: Hart, 2009). Call Number: K3247 I53 2009
  • Catherine Bell & Val Napoleon, eds, First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008). Call Number: E78 C2F57 2008

Congratulations Val!

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.

  • Corporate governance: principles, policies, and practice – Bob Tricker. HD2741 T685 2015
  • Epistemologies of the South: justice against epistemicide – Boaventura De Sousa Santos. Call Number: HM651 S2483 2014
  • Challenges of democracy in the European Union and its neighbors – Aylin Ünver Noi and Sasha Toperich, editors. Call Number: JN40 C47 2016
  • Corporate obligations under international law – Markos Karavias. Call Number: K1315 K37 2013
  • A purposive approach to labour law – Guy Davidov. Call Number: K1705 D38 2016
  • The labour constitution: the enduring idea of labour law – Ruth Dukes. Call Number: K1705 D85 2014
  • The coordination of multiple proceedings in investment treaty arbitration – Hanno Wehland. Call Number: K2400 W445 2013
  • Law’s religion: religious difference and the claims of constitutionalism – Benjamin L. Berger. Call Number: K3280 B47 2015
  • Advanced introduction to international environmental law – Ellen Hey. Call Number: K3585 H49 2016
  • Law, immunization and the right to die – Jennifer Hardes. Call Number: K3611 E95H37 2016
  • Final judgment: the last law lords and the Supreme Court – Alan Paterson. Call Number: KD7632 P38 2013
  • Evidence of bad character – JR Spencer. Call Number: KD8371 S68 2016
  • Introduction to the study of law – Stephen Waddams. Call Number: KE444 W33 2016
  • Bibliographie sur la redaction et l’interpretation des textes legislatifs – Thomas Mulcair. Call Number: KE4560 A1M854
  • The actors of postnational rule-making: contemporary challenges of European and international law- edited by Elaine Fahey. ELECTRONIC
  • Changing nature of corporate social responsibility: CSR and development in context — The Case of Mauritius – Renginee Pillay. ELECTRONIC
  • Comparative counter-terrorism law – Edited by Kent Roach. ELECTRONIC
  • European legal cultures in transition – Åse B. Grødeland and William L. Miller. ELECTRONIC
  • Asian courts in context – Edited by Jiunn-rong Yeh and Wen-Chen Chang. ELECTRONIC
  • Asylum-seeker and refugee protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: the peregrination of a persecuted human being in search of a safe haven – Cristiano d’Orsi. ELECTRONIC

Deborah Curran named REFBC’s 2016 Land Champion

Congratulations to Professor Deborah Curran who was recently named the Real Estate Foundation of BC’s (REFBC) 2016 Land Champion.

REFBC’s Land Champion is awarded to individuals who demonstrate leadership, innovation and collaboration in sustainable land development and who have made outstanding contributions to the field.

REFBC’s CEO Jack Wong praised Deborah’s work as:

“innovative, cutting-edge and highly practical … Her work on watershed governance and on smart growth has informed decision makers and changed the way we think about development and sustainability.”

You can read REFBC’s full press release here.

Check out some of Deborah’s work in the area of sustainable land use and watershed governance held in the UVic LIbraries collections:

  • Deborah Curran & S. Mascher, “Adaptation in Water Law: Evaluating Australian (New South Wales) and Canadian (British Columbia) Law Reform Initiatives” (forthcoming 2016) 12:1 McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy.
  • Deboarh Curran, “Water Law as a Watershed Endeavor: Federal Inactivity as an Opportunity for Local Initiative” (2015) 28:1 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 53.
  • Deborah Curran & Oliver M. Brandes, When the Water Dries up: Lessons from the Failure of Water Entitlements in Canada, the U.S. and Australia (Victoria: POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, Water Sustainability Project, 2012) Online.
  • Deborah Curran & Oliver M. Brandes, Water Licences and Conservation: Future Directions for Land Trusts in British Columbia (Victoria: POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, 2009) Online.
  • Deborah Curran, Protecting the Working Landscape of Agriculture: A Smart Growth Direction for Municipalities in British Columbia (Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation, 2005) Online.
  • Deborah Curran, British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve: A Legal Review of the Question of “Community Need” (Vancouver: Smart Growth BC, 2007). Online.
  • Deborah Curran, A Case for Smart Growth (Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law, 2003) Call Number: HT243 B74 C87 2003