I received an unsolicited email newsletter from a group called Linex Legal. I have never heard of them, but from the website they claim to offer a mulitjurisdictional service that… [more]
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Just a follow up to Simon F's posting from August 16th on the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ittig); when I was browsing Worldlii today I discovered it… [more]
I found out about this title from a request by the Dean's research assistant who asked a reference librarian if we had it in the law library print collection:
Educating … [more]
I supervise the student law journal at UVic, so I have been encouraging them to consider open source publishing, and in the course of reviewing some of this, I came… [more]
Of late I seem to have been duplicating previous postings, but I've looked through recent postings and searched previous ones, and to my surprise nobody on SLAW seems to have… [more]
The Lewis and Clark Law Review… [more] volume 10:4 (Winter 2006) is devoted to papers from a symposium for open access publishing and the future of legal scholarship. One of the
An email announcement today from Cornell Law Library for a new Legal Research Engine
According to Julie Jones from Cornell,."this specialized search engine helps users easily find authoritative online legal… [more]
Bill Maes, the Chair of Canadian Intiative Digital Libraries (CIDL) announced the dissolution of CIDL effective 31st March 2007 and endorsed Alouette Canada as the logical successor to develop Canada's… [more]
It seems like the interest in India and India law is now on the swell. I received notice today of another Indian online legal research company, this time commercial, which… [more]
What may prove to be the longest, and most constroversial trial, in BC after the Air India trial began today in New Westminster for the accused serial killer Robert Pickton.… [more]
The author of the Search, John Battelle, has made 14 predictions about developments in search-enging technology in 2007.
I agree with the challenge to Google's perceived dominance, and to some… [more]
This is in the way of a postscript to Connie Crosby's previous entry on January 5th. As I commented on the posting, I was in New York last week, and… [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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