I am a huge fan of «KF Modified» for cataloging
Canadian legal materials since it places books on the shelves first by subject (e.g., «contracts») and then within that subject by country or region.
I have in the past hoped for good (or better) interfaces to the massive amounts of older
Canadian legal materials being digitized on the Internet Archive.
And in the not - very - distant future it will clearly be possible to carry the entire corpus of
Canadian legal materials and commentary on something that will slip into a pocket.
It would also help, of course, if something akin to the now commercial LexCite from Lexum were available free for documents referencing
Canadian legal materials.
LLMC has always been a good friend of Canada and
Canadian legal materials have been a major component of LLMC - Digital's content from the beginning.
I've long championed establishing a Best Last Copy agreement and Shared Print Archive for
Canadian legal materials.
Fortunately, there are many initiatives at various stages of implementation to digitize older
Canadian legal material.
Not exact matches
In all foreign countries except Canada, we operate through
legal entities disregarded for U.S. income tax purposes, and are subject to income tax in both the local country and the U.S. Unremitted earnings from our
Canadian subsidiary, which are intended to be permanently reinvested outside the U.S., are not
material.
In all foreign countries except Canada, we operate through
legal entities disregarded for U.S. income tax purposes, and are subject to income tax in both the local country and the U.S. Unremitted earnings from our
Canadian subsidiary, which we intend to permanently reinvest outside the U.S., are not
material.
I believe the most logical place to start is for publishers to develop output styles for their electronic services that are compatible with the software, as a citation style file that will handle the majority of
Canadian primary and secondary
legal materials can be created, and this would only require manual editing of those
materials that fall outside the style.
As you all know, CanLII has grown in the past 15 years into a robust
legal search engine with comprehensive coverage of current
Canadian case law and legislation, in addition to hosting a significant and ever growing quantity of «historical»
materials (i.e. cases published prior to CanLII's founding).
The global
legal publisher vLex, LLC and its Canadian partner Compass / vLex Canada are announcing today that they will support the Feb. 23 - 25 Global Legal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own publishing of legal materials and then began -LSB
legal publisher vLex, LLC and its
Canadian partner Compass / vLex Canada are announcing today that they will support the Feb. 23 - 25 Global
Legal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own publishing of legal materials and then began -LSB
Legal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own publishing of
legal materials and then began -LSB
legal materials and then began -LSB-...]
Google Scholar allows you to search
legal opinions and journals for free, and while the coverage is primarily American, there are a significant amount of
Canadian materials available.
It was almost eight hundred pages long, attempting to cover every aspect of
legal bibliography, with special chapters on English and
Canadian materials and even a chapter on New Media that included LEXIS and WESTLAW in their toddler years.
One of the shortcomings with the CRL / JSTOR partnership is that there are no active
Canadian partners; nor is there any conscious effort specifically to digitize and preserve law journals or other
legal materials.
Identifying the «essential
legal materials» is one of the key issues here too, but it would be a different question if we knew that
Canadian libraries were developing repository collections too.
Since 1999, the Award has been given by the Association every year to acknowledge the work that is done by publishers to provide the
Canadian legal profession with high quality
materials for use in understanding and researching the law.
WHEREAS CALL / ACBD is the
Canadian professional association most aware of and knowledgeable about the preservation and access issues related to the publication of
legal materials in digital form; and
«This is a rich and comprehensive source of
Canadian constitutional
legal materials.
- Andrew K. Lokan, Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP «This is a rich and comprehensive source of
Canadian constitutional
legal materials.
Legal publishers have digitized and made available online many Canadian primary legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary materials lag be
Legal publishers have digitized and made available online many
Canadian primary
legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary materials lag be
legal resources such as case law and legislation (although there are still pockets of information that aren't available online) although the secondary
materials lag behind.
Other useful guides are the
Canadian Judicial Council's Practice Direction on the Use of Neutral Citation for Case Law (2008) and
Legal Research
Materials:
Legal Citation prepared by the William R. Lederman Law Library at Queen's University.
The Law Bod has subscriptions to
legal databases which are good for
Canadian materials: for licensing reasons access is limited to current OU students & faculty members.
• Administrative Law • Antitrust & Regulated Industries • Asian Law • Bankruptcy, Reorganization, & Creditors» Rights •
Canadian Law • Comparative Law • Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence &
Legal Philosophy Journals • Contracts & Commercial Law • Corporate, Securities & Finance Law Journals • Criminal Law & Procedure • Cyberspace Law • Discrimination, Law & Justice • Employment, Labor, Compensation & Pension Journals • English & Commonwealth Law • Environmental Law & Policy • European Law Journals • Evidence & Evidentiary Procedure • Experimental & Empirical Studies • Family & Children's Law • Health Law Journals • Housing & Community Development Law • Forensic Economics • Immigration, Refugee & Citizenship Law • India Law • Indigenous Nations & Peoples Law • Insurance Law, Legislation, & Policy • Intellectual Property Law • International Law & Trade • LSN Educator: Courses,
Materials & Teaching • Law & Economics • Law & Humanities • Law & Humanities /
Legal History (Archive) • Law & Positive Political Theory • Law & Society • Law, Institutions & Development • Law, Norms & Informal Order •
Legal Education •
Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility •
Legal History • Legislation & Statutory Interpretation • Litigation, Procedure & Dispute Resolution Journals • National Security & Foreign Relations Law • Nonprofit & Philanthropy Law • Property, Citizenship, & Social Entrepreneurism • Property, Land Use & Real Estate Law • Regulation of Financial Institutions • Tax Law & Policy Journals • Torts & Products Liability Law • Wills, Trusts, & Estates Law • Women, Gender & the Law • Young Scholars Law
According to a press release issued by Access Copyright, «
Canadian creators and educational publishers have won a six - year
legal battle to receive reasonable compensation for the reproduction of copyright - protected teaching
materials used in the classroom».
This will allow the linking of resources based on subject as laid out in the classification and the development of software that facilitates exploration of
legal materials using a conceptual base that was designed to make sense for
Canadian research.
The hyperlinks are to reports of the decisions in CanLII — the
Canadian Legal Information Institute — which maintains a freely available database of legal mate
Legal Information Institute — which maintains a freely available database of
legal mate
legal material.
Does the
Canadian Centre for Professional
Legal Education include this
material?
Like its
Canadian counterpart CanLII, BAILII seeks to make access to primary
legal materials free to everyone via the Internet.
They are following a
legal opinion obtained by the Counsel of Ministers of Education, Copyright, that advises any
material copied in
Canadian K - 12 schools either already has the correct permissions or would fall under fair dealing.
Alternatively, if your library doesn't own the print title needed or if you don't find them in the above databases, you can identify other library holdings of Haitian
legal materials in print and electronic format by checking catalogs such as Open WorldCat, AMICUS (choose «entire AMICUS database» to search through all
Canadian library collections, including the e-content), CCfr (Catalogue collectif de France), Gallica (the Bibliothèque nationale de France's digital collection), and COPAC (British and Irish university libraries).