New at Westlaw

New Aboriginal Law title now available on Westlaw Canada. Part One of the Aboriginal Law title of the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, 4th Edition, is now available on Westlaw Canada. This title will be released in two parts. The first part explains the general Canadian legal framework with respect to Aboriginal peoples. Topics covered include the sovereignty of the Crown, the division of legislative authority, the Crown’s obligations to Aboriginal peoples, and the Constitutional framework of Aboriginal rights.

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.

eDOCTRINE: nouvelle source de la doctrine québécoise

eDOCTRINE conçue par CAIJ est un nouveau outil qui vous offre un accès au texte intégral de plus d’un millier d’ouvrages de doctrine publiés par le Barreau du Québec et par Wilson & Lafleur. Vous pouvez lancer une recherche dans l’ensemble des titres ou naviguer dans chaque titre, par volume, chapitre, section ou article. Vous pouvez accéder eDOCTRINE à partir de notre Law Subject Guide – Legal Treatises Collection.

eLOIS: nouvelle source de la législation et doctrine québécoise

eLOIS est un nouveau outil de CAIJ permettant de consulter le texte intégral bilingue des lois annotées suivantes :Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, Code civil du Québec, Code de procédure civile, Code des professions, Code du travail, Loi sur les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles, Loi sur le Barreau, Loi sur les normes du travail, Loi sur la santé et la sécurité du travail, Loi sur les sociétés par actions.

Le texte de ces lois correspond à la version diffusée dans le site des Publications du Québec et est reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Éditeur officiel du Québec.Chaque article de loi est présenté dans sa version française et anglaise et dispose d’un historique législatif et d’un lien au texte officiel. Il est enrichi d’un historique législatif, de liens à la jurisprudence et à la doctrine citant l’article, des commentaires du ministre le cas échéant, des débats parlementaires et positions du Barreau entourant son adoption, de liens vers des rapports et guides rédigés par des ministères et organismes gouvernementaux, de renvois à des dispositions législatives connexes. La Loi sur les normes du travail est aussi enrichie des annotations jurisprudentielles et doctrinales de Charles Caza publiées dans la collection Alter Ego de Wilson & Lafleur.

Vous pouvez accéder eLOIS à partir de notre Law Subject Guide – Canadain legislation and cases.

Nouvelle base des données Hélinia

A partir du début de mois de février, la Bibliothèque de Droit Nahum Gelber a le plaisir de vous offrir l’accès à une nouvelle base des données Hélinia où vous pouvez effectuer une recherche sur plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’articles réunis au sein des mélanges (festschrifts) et études francophones. Cette base de données résulte de l’indexation des contributions de 99 % des mélanges parus en France et de très nombreux mélanges francophones, sans limite de date de parution.

New resorce for finding Canadian government and legislative publications

The Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC) has announced the release of its unique pan-Canadian bilingual government and legislative publications portal GALLOPP (Government and Legislative Libraries Online Publications Portal) / PPGPE (Portail des publications gouvernementales et parlementaires électroniques). This portal is a result of collaboration between provincial and territorial legislative libraries from across Canada and the federal government’s Depository Services Program (DSP). It provides one-stop access to over 320,000 electronic provincial, territorial and federal government publications and legislative materials dating back to 1995 that were collected by Legislative libraries in Canada for their jurisdictions. As of 2013-07-12 the portal provides full-text access to the content from the electronic government documents collections of the following libraries:

  • Alberta Legislature Library
  • Legislative Library of British Columbia
  • Manitoba Legislative Library
  • New Brunswick Legislative Library
  • Newfoundland and Labrador Legislative Library
  • Northwest Territories Legislative Library
  • Nova Scotia Legislative Library
  • Ontario Legislative Library
  • Library of the National Assembly, Québec
  • Saskatchewan Legislative Library
  • Government of Canada-Depository Services Program

The portal can be accessed through our Law Subject Guide, in the Canadian Legislation and Cases section.

Azimut, Westlaw, and QuickLaw presentations

The Law Library is inviting you again to the legal databases training offered by the publishers:
QuickLaw (LexiNexis)
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 from 12h30-14h

Azimut-Juris.doc (SOQUIJ)
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 from 12h30-14h

Westlaw Canada (Carswell)
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 from 12h30-14h

Sign-up sheets are available in the Law Library Computer Classroom.

Publications of the Senate and the House of Commons

As of September 2012, all the publications of the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons are available in electronic format only. Therefore, Publishing and Depository Services / Éditions et Services de dépôt  will no longer sell and distribute Parliamentary publications in paper format. PDS are working closely with the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons to make these publications available in PDF format on the Government of Canada Publications web site. Meanwhile, you can find all the latest Reports of the Committees of the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons here.

 

Legal Research Manuals and Guides

Our fall round of 1st year legal research sessions is almost over. For those of your who would like to learn more about techniques and methods of legal research or just to refresh what we have learned in September, I could recommend to use one of the legal research manuals. You can find a list of the most recent legal research and writing manuals in our Law subject guide. To find more books on legal research, you can browse our Reference and main collections for call # KE 250 and KF 250. Also, if you are writing you first legal research paper and do not know where to start, you may find helpful the selection of the Guides and aids for legal research in the Law subject guide. Here you can find topical guides that will help you to navigate through the research process (ex. UN research guide).