Month: July 2017

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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.

  • Digital justice: technology and the internet of disputes – Ethan Katsh and Orna Rabinovich-Einy. Call Number:  K564 C6K38 2017
  • Employment obligations and confidential information – Gregory K. Steele and Kenneth Wm. Thornicroft. Call Number:  KE3113 S73 2015
  • The daunting enterprise of the law: essays in honour of Harry Arthurs – Edited by Simon Archer, Daniel Drache, and Peer Zumbansen. Call Number:  KE3247 D39 2017
  • The unfulfilled promise of press freedom in Canada – Edited by Lisa Taylor and Cara-Marie O’Hagan. Call Number:KE4422 U54 2017
  • Refugee law – Sasha Baglay and Martin Jones. Call Number:KE4472 J65 2017
  • Parliamentary immunity in Canada – J.P. Joseph Maingot. Call Number:  KE4578 M349 2016
  • History of the Aboriginal Justice Strategy. Call Number:  KE7735 A36 2009
  • Consultation paper on proposals for unfair contracts relief – prepared by the Unfair Contracts Relief Project Committee. Call Number:  KEB168 A72B74c 2010
  • National Energy Board report in the matter of Nova Gas Transmission Ltd.: application dated 2 September 2015 for the Towerbirch Expansion Project. Call Number:  TN880.5 N3835 2016
  • Symposium proceedings [of the] International Doukhobor Intergroup Symposium, Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada, June 25-28, 1982. Call Number:  BX7433 I57 1982
  • Words, computers, and communication in law = Lexicographie, bilinguisme juridique, et ordinateur – Viateur Bergeron, David C. Burke,  Jeanne Leclerc-Houde, Michael Mepham, and  Roland Serrat. Call Number:  KE252 W67 1976
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Return of the Spindle Whorl

Among the many pieces of  Legacy Art installed at the Law Library is Susan Point’s Good Luck (Double Salmon Spindle Whorl), 1998 . The piece was on loan to the Vancouver Art Gallery from February until June, for the show Spindle Whorl, which was devoted to Point’s prints and sculptures. The exhibit catalog is available in the Library. The piece was returned on June 8th, coincidentally during the  Faculty’s  hosting of the 2017 joint conference of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) and the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACCLE).  Good Luck was reinstalled to a prominent,  welcoming location in the Law Library.

 

Good Luck (Double Salmon Spindle Whorl) 1998 Susan Point. Photo by Kim Nayyer

 

 

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Introducing LawArXiv

On May 8th, Cornell Law Library launched LawArXiv, a repository for legal scholarship. LawArXiv is free and open source for the benefit of the legal community. The repository is run on the Open Science Framework (OSF), a web application of the non-profit technology start-up Center for Open Science (COS). To develop LawArXiv, Cornell Law Library partnered with the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA), the Mid-American Law Library Consortium (MALLCO), and NELLCO Law Library Consortium Inc. The UVic Law Library is a member of NELLCO, and so LawArXiv represents one of the positive and tangible outcomes of our membership fees.

This free, open access repository is owned and will be maintained by the legal scholarship community and law librarians of Cornell. Legal scholars can contribute preprints or post-prints where the author has the copyright of their published research. As a community-owned repository, LawArXiv can be seen as an instrument for protecting the integrity of the legal scholarly community and preventing legal research from being overwhelmed by the profit motivations that govern other repositories subject to corporate interests. As expressed by Tracy Thompson, Executive Director of NELLCO: “Taking access to scholarship out of the commercial marketplace, through a non-profit collaboration like LawArXiv, just makes good sense. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but having choices levels the playing field for scholars and researchers alike.”

Visit LawArXiv, or check their twitter feed listing new papers that have been uploaded to the site.