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.

  • Recognition versus self-determination : dilemmas of emancipatory politics – edited by Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard, and Andrée Boisselle. Call Number: GN495.4 R43 2014
  • Rescue! : the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act – Janis P. Sarra. Call Number: KE1518 C6S27 2013
  • Sale of goods in Canada – G.H.L. Fridman. Call Number: KE943 F75 2013
  • Solicitor-client privilege – Adam Dodek. Call Number: KE346 D63 2014
  • Standardization under EU competition rules and US antitrust law : the rise and limits of self-regulation -Björn Lundqvist. Call Number: KJE6456 L86 2014
  • Standards of review of federal administrative tribunals – Jeremy deBeer [et al.]. Call Number: KE5036 S73 2012
  • Submarine cables : the handbook of law and policy – edited by Douglas R. Burnett, Robert C. Beckman, Tara M. Davenport. Call Number: K4317 S83 2014
  • Submissions to the UN CLCS in cases of disputed and undisputed maritime boundary delimitations or other unresolved land or maritime disputes of developing states : farewell lecture of 9 December 2011, updated as of 29 July 2012 – Barbara Kwiatkowska. Call Number: KZA1660 K85 2012
  • Thinking like a writer : a lawyer’s guide to effective writing and editing – Steven V. Armstrong, Timothy P. Terrell. Call Number: KF250 A76 2009
  • Transboundary river governance in the face of uncertainty : the Columbia River Treaty : a project of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance – edited by Barbara Cosens. Call Number: KDZ642 C65A3 2012 and ELECTRONIC

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.

  • The law of class actions in Canada – Warren K. Winkler, Paul M. Perell, Jasminka Kalajdzic and Alison Warner.  Call Number:KE8402 W55 2014
  • The postulates of restorative justice and the continental model of criminal law: as illustrated by Polish criminal law – Teresa Dukiet-Nagórska (ed).  Call Number: KKP3956 P67 2015
  • Conservation water rate study final report – prepared for Capital Regional District by New East Consulting Services Ltd. with R.M. Loudon Ltd. and M. Fortin. Call Number: TD227 B7C686 2001
  • Mobilizing gay Singapore: rights and resistance in an authoritarian state – Lynette J. Chua. ELECTRONIC
  • The OECD Convention on bribery: a commentary – edited by Mark Pieth, Lucinda A. Low and Nicola Bonucci. ELECTRONIC
  • Regulating the visible hand?: the institutional implications of Chinese state capitalism -Benjamin L. Liebman and Curtis J. Milhaupt. ELECTRONIC

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.

  • Informal labor, formal politics, and dignified discontent in India – Rina Agarwala.  Call Number: HD8686.5 A637 2013
  • Status report of the multilateral meetings on the Constitution: rolling draft as at June 11, 1992-end of day – Canada. Parliament. Special Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons on a Renewed Canada.  Call Number: JL65 1992 C36 1992
  • Chronotopes of law: jurisdiction, scale, and governance – Mariana Valverde.  Call Number: K370 V358 2015
  • Restatement of the English law of unjust enrichment – Andrew Burrows.  Call Number: KD1924 B874 2013
  • Cross-border insolvency – general editor Richard Sheldon.  Call Number: KD685 I5S63 2015
  • Red, white, and kind of blue?: the conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian constitutional culture – David Schneiderman.  Call Number: KE4226 S36 2015
  • The end of the Charter revolution: looking back from the new normal – Peter J. McCormick.  Call Number: KE4381.5 M385 2015

2016 UVic Libraries Student Scholarships

The annual UVic Libraries Student Scholarships are now open for applications! Continue the winning tradition of the law school community.

Continuing law students and grad students, have you made use of library resources in furtherance of a paper, project, or assignment?

(For example, did you complete a paper, write an open memo, or take LAW 399?)

If so, take a moment to apply for either the David Harris Flaherty Scholarship, for undergraduate applicants from any discipline including Law, or the William Petrie Scholarship, open to graduate students.

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Jonathan Minnes, a graduate student in Law, was the inaugural winner of the William Petrie Scholarship! You can read his winning essay and the winning undergraduate essay for inspiration.

April 1 to May 31 is the submission window. Read on for details and terms:

  • DAVID HARRIS FLAHERTY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP
Established in 2014 and named for donor David Harris Flaherty, this scholarship is awarded to an in-course, academically outstanding undergraduate student in any discipline who can show how they have utilized library resources – be they print, archival, music, multimedia, digital, etc. – for a class project, assignment or research paper.
    • Eligible students must complete a 500 word essay explaining their use of library resources in an application.

 

  • WILLIAM PETRIE GRADUATE STUDENT LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP
Established in 2014 and named for bequest donor William Petrie, this scholarship is awarded to an academically outstanding graduate student in any discipline who can show how they have utilized library resources – be they print, archival, music, multimedia, digital, etc. – for a class project, assignment or research paper.
    • Eligible students must complete a 500 word essay explaining their use of library resources in an application.

Please visit the Student Scholarships page for complete application instructions.

 

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.

  • Understanding international law through moot courts: genocide, torture, habeas corpus, chemical weapons, and the responsibility to protect – Henry F. Carey & Stacey M. Mitchell. Call Number: KZ1237 U53 2014
  • The international law of the sea – Yoshifumi Tanaka. Call Number: KZA1145 T36 2015
  • Cybersecurity and human rights in the age of cyberveillance – edited by Joanna Kulesza, Roy Balleste. Call Number: TK5105.59 C88 2016
  • Partnerships and new roles in the 21st-century academic library: collaborating, embedding, and cross-training for the future – edited by Bradford Lee Eden. Call Number: Z675 U5P342 2015
  • Rethinking reference for academic libraries: innovative developments and future trends – edited by Carrie Forbes & Jennifer Bowers. Call Number: Z675 U5R4567 2015
  • Data visualizations and infographics – Sarah K.C. Mauldin. Call Number: Z678.93 G73M38 2015
  • Teaching information fluency: how to teach students to be efficient, ethical, and critical information consumers – Carl Heine, Dennis O’Connor. Call Number: ZA3075 H44 2014
  • The new information literacy instruction – edited by Patrick Ragains & M. Sandra Wood. Call Number: ZA3075 N493 2016
  • Proportionality and deference in investor-state arbitration: balancing investment protection and regulatory autonomy – Caroline Henckels. ELECTRONIC
  • WTO and international investment law: converging systems – Jürgen Kurtz. ELECTRONIC

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.

  • Water and the law: towards sustainability – edited by Michael Kidd, Loretta Feris, Tumai Murombo & Alejandro Iza. Call Number: K3498 W38 2014
  • Intellectual property rights as foreign direct investments: from collision to collaboration – Lukas Vanhonnaeker. Call Number: K3830 V376 2015
  • Principles of cybercrime – Jonathan Clough. Call Number: K5215 C58 2015
  • The futures of legal education and the legal profession – edited by Hilary Sommerlad, Sonia Harris-Short, Steven Vaughan & Richard Young. Call Number: KD432 A75F88 2015
  • Leading the way: Canadian women in the law – Julie Soloway & Emma Costante. Call Number: KE332 W6S64 2015
  • Regulatory law and practice – Paul Salembier. Call Number: KE5024 S24 2015
  • Principles and pragmatism: essays in honour of Louise Charron – general editors Graham Mayeda & Peter Oliver. Call Number: KE8248 C43S96 2014
  • Youth and the criminal law in Canada – Sherri Davis-Barron. Call Number: KE9445 D38 2015
  • A context and practice global case file: Thorpe v. Lightfoot, a mother’s International Hague petition for the return of her child – Olivia M. Farrar. Call Number: KF224 L545F37 2015
  • Tribal criminal law and procedure – Carrie E. Garrow & Sarah Deer. Call Number: KIE3305 G37 2015

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 Saturday, March 26 and run until Sunday, April 17, inclusive.
  • During this period the law library will be open until 10 pm each night except Fridays.
  • We will be open Easter Monday for holiday hours (8:30 AM – 4:00 PM).
  • 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 April 18, whichever comes first.
  • During this period 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.

Many thanks

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.

  • Sexting and cyberbullying: defining the line for digitally empowered kids – Shaheen Shariff. Call Number: HQ27 S5193 2015
  • Research handbook on international competition law – edited by Ariel Ezrachi. Call Number: K3850 R47 2012
  • Out of practice: exploring legal career paths in Canada – Amy Kaufman & Leeann Beggs. Call Number: KE330 K38 2015
  • The dignity of law : the legacy of Justice Louis LeBel – General editors: Dwight Newman & Malcolm Thorburn. Call Number : KE8248 L43D53 2015
  • The disappearance of criminal law: police powers and the Supreme Court – Richard Jochelson & Kirstan Kramer with Mark Doerksen. Call Number: KE9260 J63 2014
  • Youth and the criminal law in Canada – Sherri Davis-Barron. Call Number: KE9445 D38 2015
  • Privacy, security and accountability: ethics, law and policy – edited by Adam D. Moore. Call Number JC596 P759 2016
  • The responsibility to protect: a defense – Alex J. Bellamy. Call Number: JZ6369 B445 2015
  • International human rights law: returning to universal principles – Mark Gibney. Call Number: K3240 G53 2016
  • The right to work: legal and philosophical perspectives – edited by Virginia Mantouvalou. Call Number : K3260.5 R54 2015

 

Law Graduate Student Presentations

The Graduate Program at the Faculty of Law has released the schedule of graduate research presentations. These presentations will be made in room 292 in the law library, and are open to faculty and anyone else who wishes to attend. 50 minutes are allocated for each presentation.

1: 30 Wednesday, March 16th

  • A Reconciliation without Recollection: An Investigation of the Foundations of Aboriginal Law—Josh Nichols
  • Brain Tanning and Shut-eye Dancing: Understanding Plains Cree Ceremony as Legal Pedagogy—Darcy Lindberg
  • Provisional Measures in International Arbitration and Criminal Proceedings: Public Authority and Privatized Justice—Dmytro Galagan

9:00 Friday, March 18th

  • Improving Community Corrections in China: A Comparative Analysis—Qi Kong
  • Hydropower Dams Through the Lens of Environmental Justice—Rebeca Macias Gimenez
  • Gendered consumption: intersections between C0nsumers and women’s rights movements—Tamara Gonçalves
  • Sovereignty, Terra Nullius, Crown Lands, and Indian Reserves: The Dispossession of Indigenous Lands in Canada’s Maritime Provinces—Rob Hamilton

9: 30 Friday, April 1st

  • Utopian Performatives, Embodied Genealogies & Histories of Migration—Preeti Dhaliwal
  • Sovereign Legitimacy and Aboriginal Title: The Supreme Court’s Shift to a Procedural Legitimation of Crown Sovereignty—Ryan Beaton
  • Arbitral Paganism and Legal Disorder: New Sovereign Safeguards in International Investment  Agreements—Hassan Kamalinejad