Alisa Lazear, the former UVic Law Library Intern, and current Community and Content Manager at CanLII, and was recently interviewed for the Canadian Association of Law Libraries blog. The interview gives insight into what attracted Alisa to the legal information profession, as well as tips for people starting out as legal information professionals. Find the full interview at the link below:
https://www.callacbd.ca/CALL-Blog/7189152
Law Library Open House – Come on in!
Join us for our 2018 Law Library Open House Wednesday (October 3) 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!
Services for books on loan or on shelf at McPherson Library
If you find an item in the Library catalogue that shows a “Location” other than the Law Library, or a “Status” other than “in Library”, use the Libraries ReCall/ReTrieve service – available to students and grad students. Faculty should use the Re:quest service. retrieve
Select Recall when the item you want is checked out to somebody else. That person will be notified to return the book; you will be notified when the book is available for pick-up. Notifications are anonymous.
Select RETRIEVE when the item is not checked out and you want it retrieved from the McPherson Library. The item will be brought to the Law Library and held for you.
Items requested using Recall or ReTrieve will be delivered to the Law Library loan desk.
For more information: https://www.uvic.ca/library/use/borrow/recall/index.php
Hon. Tommy Banks and the Statutes Repeal Act
Hon. Tommy Banks, Liberal Senator from 2000 to 2011, Alberta, was responsible for the Statutes Repeal Act, SC 2008 c. 20 . The act stipulates that the Minister of Justice will table in Parliament, annually, a listing of Acts and provisions of Acts that have not been brought into force within at least nine years of their enactment. These reports have been tabled since 2011 and are available on the Justice Laws Website
Over the course of seven years and five sittings of Parliament, Banks introduced and re-introduced the legislation that would finally pass in 2008. The bills were reviewed by the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. The history of the final and earlier bills can be found on LegisInfo.
Hon. Tommy Banks, jazz musician and piano player, died in Edmonton on January 24, 2018.
BC Utilities Commission Site C Dam Final Report – released November 1, 2017
he final report is now available at the Commission’s website: http://www.sitecinquiry.com/
For more information and links see the original post on the Government Information blog.
Reinstallation of the Spindle Whorl
The Spindle Whorl was reinstalled in the Law Library on October 27th. The piece is now on a specially built riser, designed to provide a protection from inadvertent bumping and touching. Please do come by and view the piece. Information about the artist and this piece can be found in the book Susan Point : Spindle Whorl a copy of which is available for perusal in the nearby seating area.
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.
Installation of the 29th Governor-General of Canada
October 2, 2017 – Installation of the 29th Governor-General of Canada, the Right Honourable Julie Payette.
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!
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!
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.