Did you know that we are currently recruiting for a Learning and Research Librarian with a law degree?
Please read the posting and the position description, and note that the posting closes April 17, 2015.
Law Library Study Room Bookings
As we enter the last weeks of term, we wish students all the best for exams, papers, and assignments. We hope to offer law students the support and study environment that is needed at this time, and alert all library users to the following update:
- For the period of March 23 through end of day, Sunday April 19, group study room access in the law library is limited to law students. Rooms may be booked at the front desk of the law library.
We trust all law library users will respect the increased need for quiet study at this time. Many thanks and happy studying.
Mar 16: New titles in the law library
Watch this space alternate Mondays for regular 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. Once again, this week’s list includes a number of titles that arrived over the last several weeks.
- Report on prostitution in Quebec—Robert Gemme, co-ordinator. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 11
- Prostitution in the Atlantic provinces—Nikita Crook. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 12
- Prostitution and pornography in selected countries—C.H.S. Jayewradene, T.J. Juliani and C.K. Talbot. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 4
- Canadian newspaper coverage of prostitution and pornography, 1978-1983—Maged El Komos. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 5
- A National population study of prostitution and pornograph—Peat, Marwick and Partners. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 6
- The ladies (and gentlemen) of the night and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases—Margot Haug, Maltaise Cini. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 7
- Vancouver field study of prostitution—J. Lowman. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 8
- Project T.A.P.: towards an awareness of prostitution : an empirical study of street prostitution in the prairie region—Melanie L. Lautt. Call Number: KE9059 W67 1984 no. 9
March 2: New titles in the law library
Watch this space alternate Mondays for regular 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. Once again, this week’s list includes a number of titles that arrived over the last several weeks.
- Black’s law dictionary—Bryan A. Garner (editor in chief). Call Number: KF156 B53 2014 Dictionary Stand A
- Thinking like a writer: a lawyer’s guide to effective writing and editing—Steven V. Armstrong, Timothy P. Terrell. Call Number: KF250 A76 2009
- Legal ethics: a study of professional conduct—Mark M. Orkin. Call Number: KF306 O 7
- The Victorian Chancellors—by J.B. Atlay. Call Number: KF346 Z9A1 A86
- Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 1885-1940.—Heuston, R. F. V. Call Number: KF346 Z9A1 H4
- Lord Justice Birkett—Bardens, Dennis. Call Number: KF346 Z9B5 B3
- Lord Bowen—Cunningham, Henry Stewart. Call Number: KF346 Z9B68 C85
- Life of Henry Brougham to 1830—Call Number: KF346 Z9B76 N4
- Life of Lord Carson—Marjoribanks, Edward. Call Number: KF346 Z9C3 M3
- Richard Burdon Haldane: an autobiography—R. B. Haldane. Call Number: KF346 Z9H256
- Lord Chief Baron Pollock—Hanworth, Ernest Murray Pollock. Call Number: KF346 Z9P648 H3
Feb 16: New titles in the law library
Watch this space alternate Mondays for regular 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. Once again, this week’s list includes a number of titles that arrived over the last several weeks.
- Public defender—Gerald W. Getty and James Presley. Call Number: KF373 G48A36
- Hints on advocacy: conduct of cases civil and criminal: classes of witnesses, and suggestions for cross-examining them—Richard Harris. Call Number: KF8915 H3 1943
- Examination of witnesses in court—Wrottesley, Frederic John. Call Number: KF8950 W7
- The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Handbook: a practical guide for multinational general counsel, transactional lawyers and white collar criminal practitioners—Robert W. Tarun. Call Number: KF9351 T37 2013
- My life & work, a happy partnership: memoirs of J.A. Corry—Corry, J. A. Call Number: LE3 Q317 1961
Feb 2: New titles in the law library
Watch this space alternate Mondays for regular 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. Once again, this week’s list includes a number of titles that arrived over the last several weeks.
- The law of the Canadian Constitution—Guy Régimbald, Dwight Newman. Call Number: KE4219 R45 2013
- Administrative law in Canada—Sara Blake. Call Number: KE5015 B54 2011
- Executive legislation—John Mark Keyes. Call Number: KE5024 K49 2010
- Standards of review of federal administrative tribunals—Jeremy deBeer. Call Number: KE5036 S73 2012
- Freedom of information in Canada: will the doors stay shut?: a research study prepared for the Canadian Bar Association—T. Murray Rankin. Call Number: KE5325 R36
- Canadian income tax law—David G. Duff. Call Number: KE5759 C34 2012
- Bypass court: a dispute resolution handbook—Genevieve A. Chornenki, Christine E. Hart. Call Number: KE8615 C48 2011
WestlawNext Canada drop in sessions
Allan Akizuki will be here next Wed. Feb 4 in the library’s computer lab to offer three drop in sessions on how to research using WestlawNext Canada.
12:00-12:45 open session 1
12:45-1:30 open session 2
1:45-2:30 faculty session
No need to rsvp, just drop in and enjoy.
Attn 1Ls: Legal research and citation refreshers
Voyager, CED, Abridgment, Halsbury’s—sound vaguely familiar but could be Dr. Who characters as easily as Canadian legal research tools?
Then try to make it to one of our 30-minute legal research refreshers, presented by Michael Lines of the law library. Citations will also be covered.
All refresher sessions will be in the law library computer lab. Here’s the schedule:
Week 1 (emphasis research materials)
Tues. Jan 20, 12:00 and 12:30
Thurs. Jan 22, 12:00 and 12:30
Week 2 (emphasis citations)
Tues. Jan 27, 12:00 and 12:30
Thurs. Jan 29, 12:00 and 12:30
No preregistration required.
Also keep in mind the library’s legal research and writing guide: https://libguides.uvic.ca/lrw. There you can find a research strategy overview, links to sample research plans and journals, and primary and secondary legal research starting points.
Diana M. Priestly: wren, lawyer, professor, librarian
Joseph Lenarcik, Assistant Curator of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum recently spent some time at the Law Library, and has published a brief article in issue 12(1) of the Museum’s newsletter Headway outlining Diana. M. Priestly’s life and work, and noting in particular her service in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service in the second world war.
The museum kindly gave us permission to post the whole issue here.
Considering the last sentence of the article, it is timely and useful to note the announcement of the Diana M Priestly Memorial Scholarship, applications for which are accepted until Feb 1, 2015. This scholarship may be of interest to our current or future students.
New Associate University Librarian at the Law Library.
Congratulations to our very own Kim Nayyer, newly appointed AUL Law, who stepped into her new role January 1, 2015! The Law library is very fortunate to be under Kim’s leadership as we shape our future. Her strong legal and teaching background, her deep connections to the law faculty and wider community, and her professional librarianship will set us all on a new course here in the Law library.