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2020 Research-a-thon: Plastics

This Friday (February 28), is the all-day Plastics Research-a-thon event.  The Environmental Law Club has partnered with the Environmental Law Centre, as well as the UBC Environmental Law Group  and Thompson Rivers University  to research plastic waste policy in 34 countries and 2 international organizations around the world.

The law librarians have created a comprehensive website for this year’s research-a-thon to help  students identify and work with valuable resources in the law library collection, including library resource guides, websites, reports, books, and journal articles.   There is also a country specific resource document, which links to the legislation, policy, and case law as well as secondary sources related to plastic waste for each country.

The law librarians will be on hand throughout the day, to help with process of researching foreign and international law.

The event runs from 9am-5pm in room 265 of the law library, with a lunchtime panel in room 150 with Calvin Sandborn, Q.C., the Legal Director of the Environmental Law Centre, and Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, the subject librarian for geography, environmental studies, maps and GIS, economics, sociology and data (social sciences and humanities).

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2019 Research-a-Thon: Getting Current with the Current

This Friday is the all-day 2019 Research-a-thon: “Getting Current with the Current” event.  The Environmental Law Club has partnered with the Environmental Law Centre and the Indigenous Legal Research Unit, to look at water law using both colonial and Indigenous research methodologies, focusing on water law in Nicola Valley.

Law librarians Sarah and Alex prepared a targeted and comprehensive research guide website to help the students identify and work with valuable resources in the law library collection, including BC legislative research content in our Quickscribe, HeinOnline, LLMC Digital, and BC Laws databases. It also incorporates the  legislative starting points compiled by former ELC articling student Renata, and Kim’s chapter on researching BC legislation, as well as a list of Indigenous Law Resources.

The librarians will be on hand throughout the day, to help with the intricate process of historical legislative and contextual legal research.

The event runs from 10am – 5pm, with a lunchtime panel discussion from 11:30-12:30 in rm 157  featuring Deborah Curran from the Environmental Law Centre and Chief Harvey McLeod of the Upper Nicola Band.

 

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New Title – Global Corruption : Law, theory & practice

University of Victoria Law Professor Gerry Ferguson’s new book Global Corruption : Law, Theory & Practice (3d ed) is now openly available on UVic Space and CanLII. Published by UVic, this two volume book is a valuable resource for professors, students, lawyers and anti-corruption practitioners alike.

The book was created to support law courses on global corruption in Canada, with the potential for use in the US, UK or any other English speaking country. The book begins by establishing the nature and extent of global corruption, including reference to additional historical, social, economic and political contexts. The following chapters outline international standards and requirements for combating corruption, with the laws of the US, UK and Canada provided as examples for how these standards are met.

The book is published under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CA license, which allows for reproduction of the book for non-commercial purposes, with credit given to the author.

A print copy of the book is in the UVic Law Library Reserve Collection, call number K2515 F47 2018. Print copies of the book are also available for purchase at the UVic bookstore.

Read more about the book on CanLII and the UVic Scholarly Communication Blog.

 

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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!

 

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UVic Ideafest – 2017

Ideafest is an annual free festival of research that celebrates some of the brightest minds and ideas on campus. Running from March 6-11, this year’s festival features hundreds of speakers presenting on a wide range of topics. Here are some highlight that may be of interest to law students and Law Library users:

The  above events are only a small sampling of the weeks events. Check out the Ideafest website for the full schedule.

 

 

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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.