Law Library Summer Schedule

From May the 1st to September the 2nd, the Nahum Gelber Law Library will be open 10:00 – 18:00 Monday – Friday. Please remember, that only the users who have requested and have been granted the “after hours access” will be able to stay at the Law Library after 18:00. You can always check our schedule at the Law Librarie’s webpage.

New UN Research Guide

The UN Library created a new research guide that reflects the complexity of the UN’ documentation and helps the users to navigate it. The UN Documentation Research Guide presents an overview of selected UN documents, publications, databases and websites. It provides details on the patterns of documentation of the active principal UN organs. It presents documentation of the organs and subsidiary bodies involved in areas of interest to many researchers. You can find the link to the new guide in the Law Subject Guide under Guides and aids for legal research.

Archives of the Civil Code Revision Office of Quebec (C.C.R.O.) are online

The archives contain the working papers of one of the principal organs for private law reform in Quebec history. The archives are made up of the C.C.R.O.’s working papers, reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings, internal memoranda, etc., dating mostly between 1966 and 1979. The President of the C.C.R.O., Professor Paul-André Crépeau, donated his copies of the material to McGill University. There are approximately 4000 documents in the archives, stored in over 300 volumes. The total collection of the papers of the C.C.R.O. in the possession of McGill University amounts to approximately 40,000 pages.

In 1995, an index to the archives was created by Professors John E.C. Brierley and Nicholas Kasirer that has been incorporated into the database. In 2008, with significant support from the Wainwright Trust, a project of digitizing the archives was begun. This led to the creation of this website, with the assistance and support of the Library Technology Services section of McGill University Library.

The archives of the C.C.R.O. is a rich source for those interested in the working methods of the agency charged with a re-codification of private law in the civilian manner in North America.