Category: Law Library

Posts about the UVic Law Library: hours updates, library news, events, etc.

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Holiday Closure

Congratulations, students, on completing your fall term exams.

Please note the library’s reduced hours and holiday closure:

Wed Dec 24: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Thu Dec 25, 2014 to Thu Jan 1, 2015: UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY CLOSURE
Fri Jan 2, 2015: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Sat Jan 3, 2015: regular hours resume

And check or bookmark the UVic Libraries’ hours and location page for ongoing details of our hours of operation.

And remember, UVic law students, you need not be away from the law library even if you are away from campus during the break. If you find yourself longing for a look at one of our licensed databases, off-campus access is available to you throughout this time, as always. Simply access the libraries’ database list, and enter your netlink ID and password when prompted to do so.

Enjoy your well-deserved break, and we’ll see you back in 2015.

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Dec 8: 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.

  • Memorials of his time—Henry Cockburn. Call number: DA816 C6A2 1910
  • The way we were: The story of the old Vancouver courthouse—Jim Fairley. Call number: FC3847.8 C68F35
  • IFC performance standards on environmental & social sustainability: a guidebook—Michael Torrance, editor. Call number: HD60 I34 2012
  • International human rights: text and materials—Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman. Call number: K3240 A4418 2013
  • Video game law—Jon Festinger, Chris Metcalfe, Roch Ripley. Call number: K3705 A48F48 2012
  • Cross-border torts: Canadian-U.S. litigation strategies—Wyatt Pickett. Call number: KE474 T6P52 2013
  • Sullivan on the construction of statutes—Ruth Sullivan. Call number: KE482 S84S95 2014
  • Estoppel—Bruce MacDougall. Call number: KE484 E7M33 2012
  • The Canadian law of mortgages—Joseph E. Roach. Call number: KE752 R62 2010
  • Legal opinions in commercial transactions—Wilfred M. Estey. Call number: KE919 E78 2013
  • The law of privacy—Michael Power. Call number: KE1240 P68 2013
  • Pure economic loss in Canadian negligence law—Russell Brown. Call number: KE1264 B76 2011
  • Advertising and marketing law in Canada—Brenda Pritchard, Susan Vogt. Call number: KE1610 P75 2012
  • Collective agreement arbitration in Canada—Ronald M. Snyder. Call number: KE3206 C64 2013
  • Public health law and policy in Canada—edited by Nola M. Ries, Tracey M. Bailey, Timothy Caulfield. Call number: KE3575 P82 2013
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Exam Period at the Law Library: room bookings, extended hours, respite room

As we approach the end of classes and the start of exams, we wish to ensure that all law students have the support and study environment that is needed in the law library. Please take note of the following updates and reminders.

  • For the period Monday, Dec 1 to Friday Dec 19
    • Study room access is limited to law students. Rooms may be booked at the front desk of the law library.
    • Extended weekend hours are in effect; we are open until 10 pm Saturdays and Sundays.
  • The respite room is available to anyone needing respite, and is not intended only to address medical conditions. Request the key from the loan desk staff (you will need to present photo ID).
  • Finally, we trust all law library users will respect the increased need for quiet study at this time.

Many thanks and happy studying.

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Nov 24: 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. This week’s list includes a number of titles you might have missed over the last several weeks.

  • Children’s socio-economic rights, democracy and the courts—Aoife Nolan. Call Number: K639 N65 2014
  • Advanced introduction to comparative constitutional law—Mark Tushnet. Call Number: K3165 T87 2014
  • International trade law—Indira Carr, MA (Delhi), BPhil (Liverpool), LLM, PhD (Exeter), Professor of Law University of Surrey; with contributions on private international law by Peter Stone, MA, LLB (Cantab), Barrister (Middle Temple), Professor of Law, University of Essex. Call Number: K3943 C37 2014
  • Submarine cables: the handbook of law and policy—edited by Douglas R. Burnett, Robert C. Beckman, Tara M. Davenport. Call Number: K4317 S83 2014
  • Research handbook on the economics of criminal law—edited by Alon Harel, Keith N. Hylton. Call Number: K5026 R47 2012
  • McGregor on damages—by Harvey McGregor. Call Number: KD703 D3M39 2014
  • Canadian contract law—Angela Swan, Jakub Adamski. Call Number: KE850 S93 2012
  • Authorities: conflicts, cooperation, and transnational legal theory—Nicole Roughan. Call Number: K236 R68 2013
  • kub Adamski. Call Number: KE850 S93 2012
  • The Canadian law of unjust enrichment and restitution—Mitchell McInnes. Call Number: KE1229 M35 2014
  • Canada’s refugee determination procedure: a guide for the post-Bill C-31 era—Lorne Waldman, Jacqueline Swaisland. Call Number: KE4472 W35 2013
  • 24(2): exclusion of evidence under the Charter—Nick Kaschuk. Call Number: KE8440 K38 2014
  • Powers of attorney and capacity : practice and procedure—M. Jasmine Sweatman. Call Number: KEO382.5 S94 2014
  • Treatise on the law of securities regulation—by Thomas Lee Hazen. Call Number: KF1439 H39 2009
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Nov 10: 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. This week’s list includes a number of titles you might have missed over the last several weeks.

  • Just business: multinational corporations and human rights—John Gerard Ruggie. Call Number: HF5387 R835 2013
  • An essay on the government of dependencies—Sir George Cornewall Lewis; edited with an introduction by C.P. Lucas. Call Number: JV418 L64 1891
  • Copyfight: the global politics of digital copyright reform—Blayne Haggart. Call Number: K1420.5 H34 2014
  • An essay on the government of dependencies—by Sir George Cornewall Lewis; edited with an introduction by C.P. Lucas. Call Number: JV418 L64 1891
  • Law & society redefined—George Pavlich. Call Number: K370 P38 2011
  • The delicate balance: tax, discretion and the rule of law—editors, Chris Evans, Judith Freedman, Richard Krever; contributors, Kim Brooks [and seventeen others]. Call Number: K4466 D45 2011
  • Electronic commerce and internet law in Canada—Teresa Scassa, B.A., LL. B., LL. M., S.J.D., Michael Deturbide, B. Sc. (Hons.), B.J., LL. B., LL. M. Call Number: KE452 C6S33 2012
  • Privacy in the workplace—Éloïse Gratton, Lyndsay Wasser. Call Number: KE1240 G728 2013
  • Defending class actions in Canada—McCarthy Tetrault. Call Number: KE8402 D44 2011
  • Bennett on bankruptcy—Frank Bennett. Call Number: KE8402 D44 2014
  • Defending drug cases—P. Michael Bolton. Call Number: KE9050 B65 2006
  • Overview of the Second Round: April 1993—prepared for the Commission by Michael Cassidy, Ginger Group Consultants. Variant Title: Overview of the 2nd Round Call Number: KF8205 A336 1993a
  • The Pentateuch and Haftorahs: Hebrew text, English translation and commentary—edited by J.H. Hertz. Call Number: BS1222 1960
  • The state of the Native nations: conditions under U.S. policies of self-determination: the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Call Number: E93 S72 2008
  • The governance gap: extractive industries, human rights, and the home state advantage—Penelope Simons and Audrey Macklin. Call Number: HD3616 D443S56 2014
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Lexis-Nexis QuickLaw Open Sessions

Shaun Dell of Lexis-Nexis QuickLaw will present two open training sessions Wednesday Nov. 5, in the law library:

12:00pm – 1:00pm

  • Quicklaw Refresher In this session we will focus on reviewing the Quicklaw interface functionality as well as the various sources available. Special focus will be placed on finding case and legislation sources, as well as orientating your research through Secondary sources. We will cover Noting-up of legislation and case law, as well as discussing a few tips and tricks to speed up your research in the school and office environments.

1:00pm – 1:30pm

  • Quicklaw for Microsoft Office Refresher This session will be a short introduction to this great little research assistance tool, designed to work with Microsoft Office Word and Outlook. This tool is a great way to enhance your research capability through the tools that you will already be using in a school and office environment.
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Study space in the law library

The Law Library recognizes the need for available group study rooms in the Law Library specific to the needs of law students. In our efforts to ensure that the group rooms are accessible to all students while also meeting your specific needs, we will be implementing the following strategy:

  • The 4 group study rooms on the second floor will be taken off the online booking system and reserved for law students only. Bookings will now be made with the front desk staff at the Law Library. Law students will be able to book these rooms 7 days in advance and will be required to show ID at the time of placing a booking. Bookings can be made in 2-hour blocks, and consecutive bookings can be made (by individual or group), subject to room availability. Please be considerate of others’ needs when making consecutive bookings. As always, we encourage students to make advance bookings, whenever possible, to ensure their needs are met.
  • We are adding a 5th room to the number of group study rooms accessible to law students on the second floor. Room 252 will now become a group study room.
  • Additionally, we recognize that law students may have immediate, day-of needs for a group room. To assist with these immediate needs, we are now adding room 184 (the Collaboration Room). Please note the Collaboration Room, as in the past, will sometimes be booked in advance for other users who specifically need to use the collaboration equipment in this room. Thus this may occasionally impact last-minute availability for law students.
  • Room 172 will be a bookable group study room for law students. This room will also be reserved for day-of bookings only. There will be no advance bookings for this room for group work. Access to 172 will be limited to this term only as this will become the new Adaptive Technology Room as of January 2015.
  • The remaining 3 group study rooms on the main floor will be open to all students on campus and available via the online booking system. Law students are free to book these rooms whenever available.

These changes will take effect October 14th in order to honor existing bookings. Also, as mentioned in previous communications, access to the group rooms will be available only to law students during the exam periods in December and April.

The Law Library is also working with law faculty and staff to produce a quick and easy system to determine available space in the Fraser Building for groups to meet. We hope to provide more information on this shortly.

Please note that study space is at a premium across campus for all students regardless of discipline. This current space allocation plan will be monitored in terms of usage statistics and assessed over the course of the year and adjusted as necessary.

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Legal Research Essentials Wed. Sept 17

On Wed. Sept. 17 the Law Library will host Legal Research Essentials, where incoming and returning students can:

  • Get important legal research passwords
  • Learn about print and electronic sources
  • Enter raffles and win prizes
  • Have a coffee and a snack

Drop into the law library between 8:30 and 3:30 to take part.

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Summer Research Help in the Law Library

If you’re a law student registered in summer session or working as a faculty summer research assistant, you might notice the research help desk (reference desk) in the law library is unattended this summer.

Though the desk is quiet, research help remains available.

Students, you’re encouraged to email or phone the usual research help contacts. The librarians receive email and phone messages at those contacts and will respond as quickly as possible, Monday through Friday. You may also make an appointment with a librarian for research help via the staff at the library circulation desk.

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Exam period updates: Study room access; extended hours

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:

  • For the period of March 24 through April 22, 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.
  • Extended weekend hours are now in place, with the law library open until 10 pm each night except Friday.
  • Finally, we trust all law library users will respect the increased need for quiet study at this time.

Many thanks and happy studying.