Month: January 2020

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Legal Research Refresher Sessions

Do the LRW research tutorials seem like a distant memory? Are you staring at your open memo not knowing where to start?

Then come to one of our lunch hour research refresher sessions presented by the law librarians in the Law Library computer lab!  No preregistration required.

Week 1 : Emphasis on secondary sources and resources 

Monday Jan 27:   12:30-1:30 – Canadian state law

Wednesday Jan 29: 12:30-1:30 – Indigenous law

Thursday Jan 30 12:30-1: 30 – Canadian state law (repeat of Monday’s session)

Week 2: emphasis on citation

Monday Feb 3: 12:30-1:30 – Legal citation

Thursday Feb 6: 12:30-1:30 –  Legal citation (repeat of Monday’s session)

The law library also has a legal research and writing guide: https://libguides.uvic.ca/lrw that you may find helpful as you are working on your open memo assignment. There you can find a research strategy overview, links to a sample research plan, and primary and secondary legal research starting points.

If you have any questions … remember, we’re here to help you. Ask us!

Regards,

Alex, Emily, and Sarah

 

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on the Verge Student Writing Contest


UVic’s on the VERGE Student Writing Contest is officially underway. A  joint initiative of the UVic Libraries and Equity and Human Rights, on the VERGE is a reformulation of the 10-year running Diversity Writing Awards exploring an annual theme under the broad rubric of equity, diversity and human rights.

UVic students may submit their written work relating to this years theme ‘compassion’ in one of four categories:

  • Poetry (150 lines maximum)
  • Fiction (1500 word maximum)
  • Non-fiction (1500 word maximum)
  • Spoken word (3-minute maximum – video or audio file formats accepted)

In addition to cash prizes for first and second place (in each category), winners also receive an invitation to a writer’s workshop with this year’s judge, poet and songwriter, Sonnet L’Abbé .

Submissions are open until February 1, 2020.

For more information about the contest visit on the Verge Writing Contest.