However, we also agreed I think that a combined approach of print and full - text keyword searching of e-books was effective, especially since the entire universe of
Canadian legal treatises remains printbound for some time (until Google Books rules the world).
In my September 2007 SLAW posting titled Digital Law Books in Canada, I suggested that we have perhaps reached a (positive) tipping point on the availability of digital law - related books with (very) roughly 10 % of the major
Canadian legal treatises being available in digital format.
I counted a total of 85 e-books, many of them being major
Canadian legal treatises.
Using that list as a comparator, we could say that roughly 10 % (85 of of 800 titles) of the major
Canadian legal treatises are available in electronic format, a fairly significant number in my opinion (remember I said «roughly» — I realize my statistical methods here are «quick and dirty»).
Not exact matches
Not to be lost sight of is the fact that
legal treatises and monographs are the
legal heritage of all
Canadians as well as the property of
legal publishers.
Far better for the
Canadian legal profession to use Halsburys Laws of England with a few footnote references to
Canadian cases in what was known as the «
Canadian Converter», and major
legal treatises from the U.K., than to use the obviously inferior publications that would be written by
Canadian authors.
The range and depth of the publishing programme, from major encyclopedias in French as well as in English, to annual practice volumes,
treatises and monographs, is unmatched and has given the company the content it needs to become the leading information provider in print and digital formats in the
Canadian market for
legal information for years to come.
At 959 pages and the most recent
treatise on the topic, it stands to be an important addition to the
Canadian legal literature... [more]
To put this in context, in Chapter 8 of the second edition of my Irwin Law book called
Legal Research and Writing (which itself is available as an e-book on Quicklaw and as 1 of 12 digital books available directly from Irwin Law), I list by topic what I think are the leading
Canadian law - related books or
treatises, a list which resulted in just over 800 titles.
He has authored Mediating Justice:
Legal Dispute Negotiation, a leading Canadian treatise on the mediation of legal disp
Legal Dispute Negotiation, a leading
Canadian treatise on the mediation of
legal disp
legal disputes.
At 959 pages and the most recent
treatise on the topic, it stands to be an important addition to the
Canadian legal literature.
[vi] For a
Canadian treatise on the «self - regulation» debate, see: Professor Noel Semple,
Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads — Justitia's Legions (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2015).