Month: August 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.

  • Fragile freedoms: the global struggle for human rights – Edited by Steven Lecce, Neil McArthur, and Arthur Schafer. Call Number: JC571 F638 2017
  • Rules for a flat world: why humans invented law and how to reinvent it for a complex global economy – Gillian K. Hadfield. Call Number: K487 E3H335 2017
  • The choice theory of contracts – Hanoch Dagan and Michael Heller. Call Number: K840 D325 2017  
  • The use of economics in international trade and investment disputes – edited by Marion Jansen, Joost Pauwelyn and Theresa Carpenter. Call Number: K2400 U84 2017
  • On the side of the angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights – Andrew S. Thompson with a foreword by Alex Neve. Call Number: K3240 T56 2017
  • Canadian agency law – Gerald Fridman, Q.C., F.R.S.C., M.A., B.C.L. (Oxon.), LL.M. (Adel.), Hon. D.C.L. Call Number: KE1328 F75 2017
  • Unions in court: organized labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms – Larry Savage and Charles W. Smith. Call Number: KE3109 S38 2017
  • William Head institutional inmate handbook – William Head Institution. Call Number: KE9416 W55 1982
  • Minimum contract justice: a capabilities perspective on sweatshops and consumer contracts – Lyn KL Tjon Soei Len. Call Number: KJC6791 T58 2017
  • Indian legal profession in the age of globalization: the rise of the corporate legal sector and its impact on lawyers and society / edited by David B. Wilkins, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, and David M. Trubek. ELECTRONIC
  • Contracts for the sale and purchase of land: purchasers’ remedies – Alberta Law Reform Institute. Call Number: KEA168 A72A42d no. 21
  • Limitations of actions in conversion and detinue – Law Reform Commission. Call Number: KEM168 A72M36 no. 125
  • Contributory fault: the Tortfeasors and Contributory Negligence Act – Manitoba. Law Reform Commission. Call Number: KEM168 A72M36 no. 128
  • Modernizing the Provincial Offences Act: a new framework and other reforms: final report – Law Commission of Ontario. Call Number: KEO180 A72 O 57 2011
  • Review of the Forestry Workers Lien for Wages Act: final report – Law Commission of Ontario. Call Number: KEO180 A72 O 57 2013
  • Legal capacity, decision-making and guardianship: final report – Law Commission of Ontario. Call Number: KEO180 A72 O 57 2017

 

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Summer Listening

Last year we we provided a few law related podcast recommendations to tide students over until the start of September classes. Below are this year’s  recommendations.

Indian & Cowboy

The first on our list isn’t a single podcast but an online media  platform ‘at the intersection of Indigenous storytelling, digital media and technology’. Indian & Cowboy features a several engaging and creative podcast worth a listen.

Below are just a few of the podcasts and episodes on the Indian & Cowboy platform touching upon law.  Be sure to check out the debut episode of Five Questions With featuring UVic Law Professor John Borrows:

 

Common Law Radio:

Next up on our Summer listening list is Common Law Radio. Based in Vancouver, each episode of Common Law Radio covers in-depth a current and topical legal issue relevant to British Columbia and Canada.   Each episode includes the perspectives of the lawyers and individuals involved in the issue. Below are a sampling of the episodes:

 

What Trump can Teach us about Con Law:

Looking for a crash course on the US constitution? Check out What Trump can Teach us about Con Law a new podcast created by Roman Mars – the voice behind the design podcast 99% Invisible – and Elizabeth Joh – Professor  at UC Davis School of Law. Each episode covers a different section of the Constitution of the United States of America and places it in the current political landscape in the US.

Happy listening!

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What Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress means for legal scholarship: Backgrounder and commentary

A few weeks ago we wrote about the launch of LawArXiv, a new legal scholarship repository aimed at ensuring community ownership of legal scholarship and preventing legal research from being overwhelmed by the profit motivations that govern other repositories. The launch of LawArXiv couldn’t be more timely.

This month Elsevier (a related company to LexisNexis) announced its acquisition of bepress (formerly Berkeley Electronic Press), a scholarly communications company whose services include Digital Commons, an institutional repository platform and expressO, an online article manuscript delivery and management service for law reviews.

The acquisition of bepress is of particular importance to the academic law community as the Digital Commons is currently used by 74% of US law schools with a digital repository. The Digital Commons also includes the Law Commons Network, a  open access database of over 350,000 law related scholarly works, aggregated from across all Digital Commons repositories.

This acquisition is the latest of a string of Elsevier’s recent acquisitions that have expanded its role from a publisher of academic journals to a company seeking to be involved in all aspects of scholarly communication.  This string of acquisitions includes Elsevier’s acquisition last year of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), an  open access repository for scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including the largest legal scholarship repository Legal Scholarship Network.

See the articles below for a roundup of recent commentary on the acquisition and what it means for legal scholars and the broader academic community.

Robert Ambrogi, “Elsevier Acquires bepress, Open-Access Repository of Law Reviews, Other Scholarly Articles” (August 3, 2017), LawSites (blog), archived at <https://perma.cc/58XA-J62D>.

Paul Basken, “Elsevier is Becoming a Data Company. Should Universities be Wary?” (August 7, 2017), The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Barbara Fister, “Just Business” (August 8, 2017), Inside Higher Ed – Library Babel Fish (blog), archived at <https://perma.cc/4VAF-93GZ>.

Lindsay McKenzie, “Elsevier Expands Footprint in Scholarly Workflow” (August 3, 2017), Inside Higher Ed.

Glyn Moody, “Elsevier Continues to Build its Monopoly Solution for all Aspects of Scholarly Communication” techdirt.

Kevin O’Keefe, “Elsevier acquires bepress: Library and Knowledge Community Respond” (August 3, 2017), LexBlog (blog), archived at <https://perma.cc/Y7AW-4VT6>.

Roger C Schonfeld, “Elsevier Acquires bepress“, (August 2, 2017), The Scholarly Kitchen (blog), archived at <https://perma.cc/V9HZ-9BA4>.

Roger C Schonfeld, “Reflections on ‘Elsevier Acquires bepress’ Implications for Library Leaders“, (August 7, 2017), Ithaka SR (blog), archived at<https://perma.cc/PDT9-Z22F>.

“What Was Bepress” (August 9, 2017) Gavia Libraria (blog), archived at <https://perma.cc/VY62-87NW>.

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Book series: Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents (Oxford University Press)

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests. Source: Oxford University Press website .

The Law Library has just received the latest two volumes in this series, vol. 145,  The North Korean Threat and vol. 146, Russia’s Resurgence.

The series began publication  in  1979 (original publisher Oceana) with  up to three volumes published annually.   Although many documents included might be available from US government websites,   the value of titles in this series lies with the topical compilation of the documents including some non-US sources ,  along with the expert commentary provided by the editors of each volume.  The current general editor of the series is Doglas C. Lovelace Jr. , Director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.   The series was originally titled Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control.

According to the Oxford University Press website, the latest volume, 146,  “includes Congressional Research Service reports on security issues concerning the United States, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation, as well as an English-language version of the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation made available to the public, NATO’s Framework for Future Alliance Operations, and recent studies on Russia’s hybrid warfare from the NATO Defense College and the Joint Special Operations University Press .”

The Law Library holds the complete set from volume 1, shelved  at call number HV6421 T464.  For a listing of the title of each volume see the Library catalogue record .  The titles can be borrowed.  A multi-volume index is part of the series.  The index includes five sections: Subject Index, Title, Index, Name Index, Index by Year, and Subject by Year.

Related reference work:

The Sage Encyclopedia of Terrorism [electronic resource]  (2011, 2nd ed.) ed.