Month: December 2016

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Reduced hours and holiday closure

Congratulations, students, on completing your fall term, papers and exams.

Please note the library’s reduced hours and holiday closure:

Monday, Dec 19 to Thursday, Dec 22

Friday, Dec 23

 8:30 am to 4:00 pm

8:30 am to 2:00 pm
Saturday, Dec 24, 2016 to Monday, Jan 2, 2017 UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY CLOSURE
Tuesday, Jan 3 2017 regular hours resume

Check or bookmark the UVic Libraries’ hours and location page for ongoing details of our hours of operation.

And remember, UVic law students, you need not be away from the law library even if you are away from campus during the break. If you find yourself longing for a look at one of our licensed databases, off-campus access is available to you throughout this time, as always. Simply access the libraries’ database list, and enter your netlink ID and password when prompted to do so.

Enjoy your well-deserved break, and we’ll see you back in 2017.

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Research help during the December exam period

You may have noticed that the research help desk in the law library is unattended during the December exam period.

Though the desk is quiet, research and citation help will remain available until December 23.

Students, you’re encouraged to email or phone the usual research help contacts. The librarians receive email and phone messages at those contacts and will respond as quickly as possible, Monday through Friday. You may also make an appointment with a librarian for research help via the staff at the library circulation desk.

Our regular reference help Desk hours will commence again in the new year.

 

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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.

  • FinTech innovation: from robo-advisors to goal based investing and gamification – Paolo Sironi. Call Number: HG173 S57 2016
  • Albion’s fatal tree: crime and society in eighteenth-century England – Douglas Hay. Call Number: HV6946 A54 2011
  • Law after modernity – Sionaidh Douglas-Scott. Call NumberK236 D68 2013
  • Unjust enrichment – James Edelman and Elise Bant. Call Number: K920 E34 2016
  • Whistleblowing law – Edited by Robert G. Vaughn. Call Number: K1773 W485 2015
  • Marine mammal conservation and the law of the sea – Cameron S. G. Jefferies. Call Number: K3525 J44 2016
  • Cases of conflict: transboundary disputes and the development of international environmental law – Allen L. Springer. Call Number: 3 S67 2016
  • Exploring the mandatory life sentence for murder – Barry Mitchell. Call Number: KD7885 I6M58 2012
  • The law of employee monitoring in Canada – Melanie R. Bueckert. Call Number: KE3328 B84 2016
  • The constitutions that shaped us: a historical anthology of pre-1867 Canadian constitutions – Edited by Guy Laforest. Call Number: KE4199 C4713 2015
  • Judicious restraint: the life and law of Justice Marshall E. Rothstein – General editors, Lisa M. Kelly, Ivo Entchev. Call Number: KE8248 R67J83 2016
  • The beginning and end of rape: confronting sexual violence in Native America – Sarah Deer. Call Number: KIE3560 D44 2015
  • Religion, law, and intolerance in Indonesia – edited by Tim Lindsey and Helen Pausacker. Call Number: BL640 R335 2016
  • Legal pluralism and development: scholars and practitioners in dialogue – Edited by Brian Z. Tamanaha, Caroline Sage, Michael Woolcock. Call Number: K236 L44 2013
  • Lawyers’ empire: legal professions and cultural authority, 1780-1950 – W. Wesley Pue. Call Number: KD460 P83 2016
  • Doctrine of res judicata in Canada – Donald J. Lange. Call Number: KE8514 L36 2015
  • Drugs law and legal practice in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam – Tim Lindsey and Pip Nicholson. Call Number: KNC691 L56 2016
  • Ross on crime – Mirko Bagaric; original author David Ross, QC. Call Number: KU3797.3 B34 2016
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250th Anniversary of World’s First Freedom of Information Law

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the world’s first freedom of information law. In 1766 Sweden’s legislature enacted the Freedom of the Print Act which abolished censorship of books and newspapers and required government to provide public access to administrative and judiciary documents.

Information about the 1766 Act, including an English translation of the Act, is available the Swedish National Library’s website: https://frittord250.se/in-english/

Check out a few of the titles on FOI laws in Canada in UVic Libraries’ collection:

  • Government information : the right to information and protection of privacy in Canada – Kris Klein and Denis Kratchanov. Call number: KE5325 K53 2009
  • Access to information and social justice : critical research strategies for journalists, scholars, and activists – edited by Jamie Brownlee and Kevin Walby. Call number: JL86 S43A23
  • National freedom of information audit – Fred Vallance-Jones, Emily Kitagawa. Online
  • Striking the right balance for transparency : recommendations to modernize the Access to Information Act – Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. Online
  • Brokering access : power, politics, and freedom of information process in Canada – Edited by Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby. Call number: KE5325 B76 2012
  • Fundamentals of privacy and freedom of information in Canada – Michel W. Drapeau, Marc-Aurèle Racicot. Call number: KE5325 D737 2010
  • Access to information legislation in Canada and four other countries – Kristen Douglas. Online.