If you have a moment right now, tune into the Livestream of the Acting Register of U.S. Copyrights Maria Pallante speaking at World's Fair Use Day in D.C.
10:20 am… [more]
archive for January, 2011
Those who get Slaw's entries by RSS or email may not regularly read comments to our posts and so might have missed a rather important, laconic comment to my entry… [more]
The Black Law Student Association – a First for the University of Montreal
by Christelle Vaval
January 13th, 2011
It is widely recognized by educational institutions that associations provide a very positive influence in the lives of students. Other than making students feel as though they are not alone… [more]
From time to time I bug the good folks at Lexum about introducing paragraph level anchors into the court decisions they publish: it would be very handy indeed to be… [more]
The anti-spam bill – Bill C-28 – was recently passed, and is expected to be in force sometime later this year.
If you think it won’t affect you because you… [more]
Every day, lawyers are engaged to help individuals and companies respond to damaging web-based communications. Though engagement is a measure of final resort, issues about evidence preservation arise at the… [more]
Dear Dr. Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission:
I was recently a guest at your launch in Ghent of the European Commission’s OpenAIRE initiative. You spoke eloquently and… [more]
This week, we've been outlining the biotech industry trends we’ve been following on the Cross-Border Biotech Blog and noting some recent developments and directions for 2011:
Social media in biotech and healthcare… [more]
Kendall Gray over at The Appellate Record has had some fun recently reformatting a Supreme Court of Texas opinion in an attempt to apply modern typographical practices to a product… [more]
I gave a presentation yesterday to some friends at the CBA Alberta Research Lawyers North subsection on using social media sources for legal research. My definition of a social media… [more]
We’ve discussed Google Scholar on SLAW before. Google Scholar allows you to search legal opinions and journals for free, and while the coverage is primarily American, there are a significant… [more]
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Available online today are four new chapters of the publication Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report, which explores the socio-demographic and economic circumstances of Canadian women in general.
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The bill amends the Constitution Act, 1867 by readjusting the number of members and the representation of the provinces in the House of Commons.
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Ars Technica: Law & Disorder: Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubatorBlueseed plans to buy a ship and turn it into a floating incubator anchored in international waters off the coast of California.
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Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the flow of information out of Ottawa has slowed to a trickle.
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"…the IPC has exclusive jurisdiction to decide whether a record is in the custody or control of a university in the context of an access request…"
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John J.L. Hunter, Q.C. of Vancouver has been elected President for 2011-2012
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Moody died on December 3, 2005, leaving four adult children. Pursuant to Moody’s will two of her children, James and Tyrell, were appointed executors of the estate. It was alleged that, during her ...
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