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Exam Period at the Law Library: Extended hours and room bookings

As we enter the last week of term, we wish all students the best for exams, papers, and assignments. We wish to ensure we offer all law students the support and study environment that is needed at this time. We alert all library users to the following updates and reminders:

  • Extended study period and exam hours begin on Monday, November 28 and run until Friday, December 16, inclusive.
  • Extended weekend hours are now in place, with the law library open until 10 pm each night except Fridays.
  • During this period all group study rooms and individual study carrels will be reserved for law student use only. This will continue until law library staff see a significant decline in use by law students, or until December 16, whichever comes first. Group study rooms and study carrels may be booked at the loan desk.
  • Finally, we trust all law library users will respect the increased need for quiet study at this time.
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Aaron Mills awarded SSHRC Impact Award

Congratulations to UVic Law PhD student Aaron Mills who was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SSHRC) Talent Award at the 2016 ‘Impact Awards’ ceremony in Ottawa on Tuesday. The SSHRC Talent Award is awarded to an individual each year “who maintains academic excellence, has a talent for research and knowledge mobilization and has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader within and/or outside the academic sector.”

Describing his doctoral research at UVic, Aaron explains:

At the heart of my project is the idea that indigenous peoples, like all peoples, are free only when living under systems of law that reflect their own deep norms—for instance, their ideas about freedom, justice, and equality—which they have authorized as legitimate.  Because Canadian constitutionalism disallows this basic freedom for indigenous peoples, it has institutionalized a relation of domination, the violence of which impacts all Canadians, not just indigenous peoples.  Colonialism isn’t a completed historical fact; it is a relational mode and it is thriving.  I believe the only way to decolonize our relationship is to empower the revitalization of indigenous legal orders.  Healthy indigenous legal orders stand to benefit us all.  As such, my project explores the legal order of one indigenous people, the Anishinaabeg (also known as Ojibwe in Canada and Chippewa in the U.S.), of which I am a member.  I am articulating a conception of Anishinaabe constitutionalism for the understanding of all Canadians, not just for my own cultural community.

http://www.fondationtrudeau.ca/en/community/aaron-mills

Aaron was recently interviewed on CFAX (with Dean of Law, Jeremy Webber) and CBC’s All Points West where he talked about the award, his scholarship and UVic’s strength in Indigenous law and the proposed JID program. You can listen to both interviews here: CFAX interview  /  CBC All Points West interview. More information about the Indigenous law initiatives at UVic Law can be found here.

Don’t forget to check out some of Aaron’s scholarship held in the UVic Libraries collections:

Congratulations Aaron!

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Pay down your library fines with food donations

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Food for Fines: Is an annual food drive put on by UVic Libraries and Campus Security Services (CSS). Each year UVic Libraries offers relief from library fines in exchange for non-perishable food items or personal needs items which are then donated to the Mustard Seed Food Bank and the UVic Student Society’s Food Bank.

How it works: For every non-perishable food item or personal item, like toothbrushes or soap, we will take $2 off your fines up to $20. You can also ‘pay’ for your fines, but ask that up to $20 of your fines be donated to the food banks instead of the libraries. Even if you don’t have any fines, we encourage on campus and off campus donations to help fill local food bank shelves.

When and where: The Food for Fines drive runs from November 21 until December 9th. Donations can be dropped off at any library branch.

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Appeal Law Journal – Open-Mic Fundraising Event

appeal-open-mic-fundraising-eventTake a break from studying for finals and join Appeal for their open-mic night fundraiser on November 24th at the Bay Street Armoury from 7:00 – 11:30 pm. There will be food, drinks, live music (instruments will be provided to those wanting to take the stage).

The night will also include a presentation by Patrick Aldous from CFA Law on law in the entertainment industry.

Tickets available for $15 through the Editorial Board (appeal@uvic.ca) and $20 at the door.

Appeal: Review of Current Law and Law Reform is a student run law journal published at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law. Appeal publishes articles, case comments and book reviews offering insightful commentary on Canadian law and comparative law

See you there!

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2017 UVic Diversity Writing Contest

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The 8th Annual UVic Libraries Diversity Writing Contests are now officially underway. A joint initiative of the UVic Libraries and VPAC office, the UVic Libraries Diversity Writing Contest aimed at fostering and continuing campus discussions around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Diversity Writing Contest: UVic students may submit their written work relating to themes of diversity, equity, or inclusion in one of three categories:

  • Poetry (150 lines maximum)
  • Fiction (2,000 words maximum)
  • Non-Fiction (2,000 words maximum)

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 celebrity author and judge Celu Amberstone and public recognition of their award-winning entries at the UVic Diversity Research Forum opening reception on January 26, 2017.

Spoken Word Contest: The contest also includes a spoken word category that is open to anyone in the UVic or Greater Victoria community:

  • Spoken Word (3 minute maximum)

Cash prizes are awarded for first, second and third place (in each category). Winners will also receive public recognition of their award-winning entry and a chance to perform their award-winning pieces at the UVic Diversity Research Forum opening reception on January 26, 2017.

Submissions are open until January 9, 2017.

For more information about the contest and past winning entries, including winning entries from UVic law students, visit: UVic Diversity Writing Contests

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2016 University Librarian’s Annual Lecture – An Evening with David Mao

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The University of Victoria Libraries and the Greater Victoria Public Library are pleased to co-host the 2016 University Librarian’s Annual Lecture at the Belfry Theatre.

Join us for an evening of conversation with David Mao, Deputy Librarian of Congress, Washington DC, who was Acting Librarian of Congress from October 1, 2015 – September 14, 2016, and Shelagh Rogers, Chancellor of the University of Victoria, and host and producer of CBC Radio’s ‘The Next Chapter’.

Prior to his appointment as Deputy Librarian of Congress, David Mao was the 23rd Law Librarian of Congress serving from 2012 – 2015, a section head with the Congressional Research Service, and an attorney in private practice.

This is a free, ticketed event. Please contact the Belfry Box Office to book your tickets at 250-385-6815 or visit www.belfry.bc.ca/tickets

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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.

  • Cross-examination: the art of the advocate – Honourable Roger E. Salhany. Call Number: KE8427 S24 2016
  • Misfeasance in a public office – Erika Chamberlain. Call Number: KE9020 C43 2016
  • The law of contempt in Canada – Jeffrey Miller. Call Number: KE9028 M55 2016
  • Annotated rules of the Court of Queen’s Bench of the Province of Saskatchewan, 1976 – Bonita J. Rourke. Call Number: KES5354 A33 1977
  • Grammar, punctuation & style: a quick guide for lawyers and other writers – Deborah Cupples. Call Number: KF250 C73 2013
  • Lawyer regulation for a new century: report of the Commission on Evaluation of Disciplinary Enforcement – ABA. Call Number: KF308 A526 1992
  • Modern consumer law – Katherine Porter. Call Number: KF1609 P669 2016
  • Environmental crime: law, policy, prosecution – Kathleen F. Brickey. Call Number: KF3775 B725 2008
  • A context and practice global case file: an intersex athlete’s constitutional challenge, Hastings v. USATF, IAAF, and IOC – Olivia M. Farrar. Call Number: KF8741 A52W37 2009
  • A treatise on the law of municipal corporations – Eugene McQuillin. Call Number: KF5305 M29
  • The Washington Post Supreme Court year in review 2009: the major cases and decisions of 2008. Call Number: KF8741 A52W37 2009
  • The law on the use of force: a feminist analysis – Gina Heathcote. Call Number: KZ6355 H43 2012
  • Latin for lawyers. Call Number: PA2091 L3 1960
  • Rescuing science from politics: regulation and the distortion of scientific research – Edited by Wendy Wagner. Call Number: Q125 R4178 2006
  • National Energy Board report in the matter of NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd.: application dated 14 October 2011 for the northwest mainline Komie North extension. Call Number: TN880.5 C454
  • Empty promises: why workplace pension law doesn’t deliver pensions – Elizabeth J. Shilton.ELECTRONIC
  • Foreign relations law – Campbell McLachlan. ELECTRONIC
  • In search of the ethical lawyer : stories from the Canadian legal profession – Edited by Adam Dodek ELECTRONIC
  • La détention avant jugement au Canada: une pratique controversée – sous la direction de Marion Vacheret et Fernanda Prates. ELECTRONIC
  • Resolving claims to self-determination: is there a role for the International Court of Justice and other legal tribunals? – Andrew K. Coleman. ELECTRONIC

 

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Historical Provincial Statutes – Now Available on HeinOnline

On Tuesday, HeinOnline launched its Provincial Statutes of Canada collection containing the annual and revised statutes of each Canadian province. The collection adds to HeinOnline’s growing collection of Canadian primary materials which includes a complete collection of the Annual Statutes of Canada (1792-2014)  and Revised Statutes of Canada.

While the Provincial Statutes of Canada collection is not complete, the collection will be a benefit to researchers who do not have access to a print collection. Researchers can expect the collection to grow as HeinOnline adds more coverage for each of the provinces in the future.

The collection includes:

British Columbia

  • Annual Statutes of British Columbia (1872-1990)
  • Laws of British Columbia, Consisting of the Acts, Ordinances, & Proclamations of the Formerly Separate Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and of the United Colony of British Columbia (1871)
  • Consolidated Statutes of British Columbia, Consisting of the Acts, Ordinances and Proclamations of the Formerly Separate Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia (1877)
  • Statutes of British Columbia up to and including the Year 1888
  • Revised Statutes of British Columbia (1897, 1911, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1979)

Alberta

  • Statutes of Alberta (1906-2015)
  • Revised Statutes of Alberta (1922, 1942, 1955, 1970, 1980, 2000)

Saskatchewan

  • Statutes of the Province of Saskatchewan (1906-1965)
  • Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan (1909, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1953, 1965)

Manitoba

  • Acts of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba (1871-1965)
  • Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba 1880
  • Revised Statutes of Manitoba (1902, 1913, 1924, 1940, 1954)

Ontario

  • Statutes of Ontario (1867-2014)
  • Revised Statutes of Ontario (1877, 1887, 1897, 1914, 1927, 1937, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990)

Quebec

  • Statuts de la Province de Quebec (1867- 1965)
  • Revised Acts and Ordinances of Lower-Canada (1845)
  • Consolidated Statutes of Lower Canada (1861)
  • Statuts Refondus de la Province de Quebec (1888, 1909, 1925, 1941, 1964)

New Brunswick

  • Acts of the Province of New Brunswick (1786-1973)
  • Revised Statutes of New Brunswick (1854, 1877, 1903, 1927, 1952, 1973)

Prince Edward Island

  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island (1860-1965)
  • Revised Statutes of Prince Edward Island (1951)
  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, from the Establishment of the Legislature, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Late Majesty King George the Third, A.D. 1773, to the Fourth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty King William (1834)
  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, from the Establishment of the Legislature, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, A.D. 1773, to the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria (1851-1852)
  • Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island from the Establishment of the Legislature, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, A.D. 1773 to the Thirty-First Year of the Reign of Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria (1862-1868)
  • Private and Local Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island (1862-1868)

Nova Scotia

  • Statutes of Nova Scotia (1836-1965)
  • Statutes at Large, Passed in the Several General Assemblies Held in His Majesty’s Province of Nova-Scotia  (1758-1835)
  • Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia (1851, 1859, 1864, 1873, 1884, 1900, 1923, 1954, 1967, 1989)

Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Statutes of Newfoundland (1845-1965)
  • Consolidated Statutes of Newfoundland (1874, 1896, 1919)
  • Revised Statutes of Newfoundland (1952)
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Professor Val Napoleon awarded Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel Award

Congratulations to Professor Val Napoleon, who was awarded the Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel designation from the Indigenous Bar Association at this year’s IBA Annual Conference on October 14. The Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel designation is awarded to an Aboriginal lawyer in recognition of outstanding achievements in the practice of law and service to her community and the Creator.

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

Check out some of Professor Napoleon’s scholarship held in the UVic Libraries collections:

  • 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!