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The Supreme Court of New Zealand 2004-2013
© 2015 Thomson Reuters New Zealand
edited by Matthew Barber and Mary-Rose Russell, Senior Lecturers in Law, Auckland University of Technology

Excerpt: selections from Chapter 3: A Barrister’s Perspective by James Farmer QC

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Out of Practice: Exploring Legal Career Paths in Canada
Leeann Beggs, Director of Student and Associate Programs at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP – Ottawa
Amy Kaufman, Head of William R. Lederman Law Library, Queen’s University

© 2015 Carswell. Reprinted with permission.

Excerpts: from Introduction and Chapter 7
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The Worst $90,000 Ever Spent: Ten Questions About Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, the Criminal Code and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Peter Sankoff, Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Law

Excerpt: Introduction and points 1-4. To read the paper in its entirety, please click on the title above to download from SSRN. . . . [more]

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What Zombies Can Teach Law Students: Popular Text Inclusion in Law and Literature

Thomas E. Simmons
66 Mercer Law Review 729 (2015)

Excerpt: Introduction and pp 744-753

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I. INTRODUCTION

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Jobs in the Canadian Legal Marketplace: A Resource for Students and Professionals

By Kamaal Zaidi © 2015 Friesen Press. Reprinted with permission.

Excerpts from the Introduction and Chapters 1-2, 4-6

Introduction

Are you looking for a job in the legal profession? This book will help you achieve your goal if you have recently . . . [more]

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Defaming by Suggestion: Searching for Search Engine Liability in the Autocomplete Era

By Anne S.Y. Cheung, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Law, in “Comparative Perspectives on the Fundamentals of Freedom of Expression” (Andras Koltay, ed.), forthcoming.

Excerpt: pp 1-14

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Modern Law, Modern Hammers: Canada’s Witchcraft Provision as an Image of Persecution

Natasha Bakht, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and Jordan Palmer, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
(2015) 35 Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues 123

Excerpt: pp 123-125, 131-143

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Why There Should Be No Constitutional Right to Contact Counsel from a Police Car
Originally published in the Western Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 5 [2015], Iss. 4, Art. 5

Terry Skolnik, LLL (UOttawa), LLM (Cambridge), SJD candidate (University of Toronto)

Excerpt: Introduction, Part III & IV

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Rethinking Canadian Legal Responses to Frozen Embryo Disputes

Stefanie Carsley
Canadian Journal of Family Law issue #29(1)
Copyright © 2015 Reprinted with permission from The Canadian Journal of Family Law

Excerpt: Introduction and Part I
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INTRODUCTION

In December 2012, the . . . [more]

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A Different Question of Open Access: Is There a Public Access Right to Academic Libraries in the United States and Canada?

Amy Kaufman, Head of William R. Lederman Law Library, Queen’s University, and co-author of the newly published Out of Practice: Exploring Legal Careers Paths in Canada

Law Library Journal, Vol. 103:3, . . . [more]

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The Constitution of Canada: A Contextual Analysis

by Jeremy Webber © 2015 Hart Publishing. Reprinted with permission.

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Balancing Privacy and the Open Court Principle of Family Law: Does De-Identifying Case Law Protect Anonymity?

Sujoy Chatterjee
Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 23 (2014)

Excerpt: pp 97-103

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Analyzing the Open Court Principle

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