Law Library News

Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition
By: Adrian Dayton

Social Media for Lawyers: Twitter Edition focuses entirely on how you will bring new clients to your firm by engaging with an already waiting community of people looking for your services.  Practical advice and proven examples are provided of how to establish trusted relationships and gain new clients with a relatively small amount of effort and, crucially, no initial cost. (publisher’s description)

Call number: KF 316.5 D39 2009 (on new books truck until Friday, February 5)

Full list of new titles available at the Law Library

Finding Materials for your Research Papers

What: Lunch hour session on using the Library’s online databases to find secondary legal materials for research, e.g. journal articles, e-books, web resources, to help you find relevant materials quickly. Upper year students writing research papers should find this particularly useful, however all are welcome, we encourage anyone interested to attend. We’ll also go over services like Request/Holds and Interlibrary Loan. Bring your lunch and any questions you may have.

When: Monday February 1 and Monday February 8, 12noon – 12:50pm (same session each time, choose whichever is most convenient)

Where: Room L201

We hope to see you there!

With thanks from your Library staff

Treaty Talks in British Columbia: Building a New Relationship 3rd ed.
By: Christopher McKee

This updated edition includes a postscript, co-authored with Peter Colenbrander, which provides an extensive overview of the treaty process from 2001 to 2009. The authors outline the achievements of and challenges for the treaty process as well as review some of the most recent jurisprudence affecting Native and non-Native rights. They also reflect on the growing number of initiatives outside the treaty process to achieve reconciliation between First Nations and the Crown and raise questions about the future relationship between these initiatives and treaty negotiations. (publisher’s description)

Call number: KF 8208 M35 2009 (on New Books cart until Jan. 29)

Full list of new books available in the Law Library

The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
By: Irene Khan, Secretary General Amnesty International

In The Unheard Truth, Irene Khan makes the case that poverty remains a global epidemic because we continue to define it as an economic problem whose only solution is foreign aid and investment. Khan calls for a reevaluation of this longstanding assumption and turns us toward confronting poverty as a human-rights violation. (publishers description)

Call number: HC 79 P6 K488 2009

Full list of new books in the Law Library

We have opened an additional group study room in the Law Library.
It is room W238 – on the 2nd floor, beside the Turn of the Century Law Office.
This room is booked via the online booking system.

The Hague Academy of International Law is the prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of public and private international law and related subjects. The Academy calls upon foremost specialists, including academics, practitioners, diplomats, and other leading experts from all over the world, to deliver courses to an international audience in English or French. The courses are published in the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.

The Hague Academy Collected Courses Online covers more than 330 volumes containing over 1200 lectures given over a period of 85 years. At least seven new volumes are added every year. The result is a constantly growing fully searchable encyclopedic collection on international law. (adapted from the publisher’s description)

Access to this online resource is available to members of the University of Alberta community and to users of the Library’s physical facilities.

Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008

An alphabetical examination of the nearly 200 shows telecast in the U.S. from 1948 through 2008 involving courtrooms, lawyers and judges, complete with cast and production credits, airdates, detailed synopses and background information. The book includes an introductory overview of law-oriented radio and TV broadcasts from the 1920s to the present. (publisher’s description)

Call number: PN 1992.8 J87 E53 2009  Reference Area

This weekend (Jan 9&10) access to the Quicklaw database using the library’s website links will be unavailable.

Alternative access should be available here when using computers in the library, and here if accessing off campus.  A current CCID will be required in both cases.

Other sources for accessing Canadian legal content are WestlawCanada, BestCase, or any of these listed databases.

If you would like any assistance in choosing an alternate resource, or with your research please feel free to contact us at the Law library.

Phone: 780-492-3371, Email: lawref@ualberta.ca, or Visit.

The Law Library will resume regular term hours on Tuesday, January 5, 2010.

Monday – Thursday, 8 am – 10 pm
Friday, 8 am – 6 pm
Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday, 11 am – 10 pm

A new study area has been opened for 2010 in W205F (the old micro materials room, for those of you who’ve been around a while).
There are several small tables in this room, plus lots of plug-ins.

We are used to periodicals, statutes and case law being available online – but sometimes there is still a tendency not to think of books.
You could be missing many resources available to you.
Here are some of the collections we have (you will find the titles in the list of Databases linked from the UA Library home page):

* Carswell E-Ref Library, (titles are listed on left hand side of screen)
sample title:Wrongful Dismissal by Harris.

* Criminal Spectrum
(click on Table of Contents tab, then Commentary)
Sample title: Criminal pleadings & practice in Canada by Ewaschuk

* Ebrary
(If you click on subject area Law, International Relations & Public Policy, you will then be taken to a page with a further breakdown)
Sample title: International Criminal Court : Global Politics and the Quest for Justice

* HeinOnLine
Under the list of Subscribed libraries, have a look at items such as Legal Classics (Sample title: The Canadian lawyer: a handy book of the laws and of legal information…) or Session Laws Library (includes Canada)

* Labour Spectrum.
Click on Labour Spectrum on the left, then check under Commentary.
Sample title available: Canadian labour arbitration by Brown & Beatty.

* MyiLibrary
You can browse by subject Law, (or, for example, you can do an advanced search for the exact phrase Essentials of Canadian Law, and you will get all of the Irwin Law books).

* Oxford Reference Online Premium
(you can browse by subject Law, or click on heading Subjects & books, and get a list of all books available sorted by subject)
Sample title available: The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History

* Oxford Scholarship Online
(You can browse by subject Law)
Sample title available: Punishment and responsibility : essays in the philosophy of law by H.L.A. Hart