Month: September 2017

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Law Library Open House – Come on in!

Join us for our Law Library Open House  Wednesday (October 4 ) 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 – Drop by to meet your Personal Librarian.   The open house is also the  opportunity to pick up your password information 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!

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Professor Val Napoleon named to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Congratulations to Professor Val Napoleon, who was named to the  Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.  Val was confirmed on September 12  along with 70 other Canadians and two other UVIC scholars.

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

Please see Uvic’s The Ring article for more about the Val and the other UVIC recipients.

Check out some of Professor Napoleon’s scholarship held in the UVic Libraries collections:
  • Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland, “An Inside Job: Engaging with Indigenous Legal Traditions Through Stories” (2016)  61:4 McGill Law Journal  725.
  • 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!

 

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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.

  • Speaking my truth: reflections on reconciliation & residential school – selected by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, and Jonathan Dewar. Call Number:  E96.5 S64 2012
  • Amazonia: environment and the law in Amazonia : a plurilateral encounter – edited by James M. Cooper, Christine Hunefeldt, and Yesenia Acosta. Call Number: GE190 A44A53 2013
  • Emerging approaches to information services – edited by Edward Bowes. Call Number: K85 E46 2016
  • The new lawyer: how clients are transforming the practice of law – Julie Macfarlane. Call Number: K120 M32 2017
  • International human rights and Canadian law: legal commitment, implementation and the Charter – William A. Schabas and Stéphane Beaulac. Call Number: KE4381.5 S28 2007
  • Mikomosis and the Wetiko: a teaching guide for youth, community, and post-secondary educators – collaboratively prepared by Emily Snyder, Lindsay Borrows, and Val Napoleon, with significant contributions from Hadley Friedland. Call Number: KE7709 M552 2013
  • Law and aboriginal peoples in Canada – David W. Elliott. Call Number: KE7709.5 E44 2005
  • Canadian tax research: a practical guide – Ted Cook. Call Number: KE5759 S53 2010
  • Sharia tribunals, rabbinical courts, and Christian panels: religious arbitration in America and the West – Michael J. Broyde. Call Number: KF4868 R43B76 2017
  • Bush v. Gore: the court cases and the commentary – Edited by E.J. Dionne Jr. and William Kristol. Call Number: KF5704.2 B87 2001
  • Overturning aqua nullius: securing Aboriginal water rights – Virginia Marshall. Call Number: KU699 M37 2017
  • Agreements: a philosophical and legal study – Oliver Black. ELECTRONIC
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We’re Hiring Law Students!

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Welcome! Your 2017–2018 UVic Law library and Research Help Information

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 2017–2018.

New students will have met Law Librarians Caron Rollins and Alexander Burdett and Senior Staff Supervisor Marisa Lousier during your tour of and orientation to library services and resources on opening day. Look out for our other librarians, Kim Nayyer (Associate University Librarian, Law and head law librarian) and Alisa Lazear (Law Library Intern).

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.

And the Research Help Desk is now open!

Monday – Thursday 11:30 am – 1:30 pm 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Friday By appointment  lawref@uvic.ca
Saturday closed
Sunday 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

When the desk isn’t open, you can still get law research help by contacting lawref@uvic.ca, or by calling 250-472-5023. One-to-one appointments with a law librarian can be scheduled via those contacts.

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Reflections of a Summer Student at the Law Library

This summer, I worked as a Law Library Collection and Research Assistant at the University of Victoria. I am now returning to UVic for my final semester of law courses, and reflecting on my experience as a summer student in a less conventional legal environment.

I’ve learned a lot at the library. Among other things, I learned useful computer skills in order to create an online legal educational tool. I practiced the skill of writing clearly for a public audience by completing blog posts on legal topics. I developed familiarity with secondary legal information resources, as well as the university law library’s role in providing access to those resources. I was exposed to the inner workings of a university library, and I had the opportunity to ask a lot of questions about the systems in place and the people running them. Overall, I gained a new perspective on legal education, research and information.

As a law student, I am returning to classes with stronger research skills that I will apply as I write my final papers. More importantly, I am returning for my final academic semester with a different perspective on what I want from my future career. I am returning with more awareness of job options outside of legal practice, and a better understanding of how my skill set and knowledge can be applied in all sorts of positions in the world of law and legal information.