Slaw readers know that Osgoode Hall Law School is currently recruiting new librarians (three positions advertised, more later next year).
If all of this sounds vaguely familiar to
Slaw readers, I wouldn't be surprised.
I think all of the above can significantly improve one «power user» «s experience on CanLII, and I am happy to hear your tips, assuming that there are (or will soon be) other Vivaldi users among
Slaw readers.
Many
SLAW readers will already be familiar with the excellent video legal research tutorials that the Courthouse Libraries BC have put together.
I invite
Slaw readers to infer meaning and to offer analysis of the results.
If
SLAW readers are aware of other notices to the profession from other courts on this point of the acceptability of online versus print judgments, I would welcome comments in that regard.
I thought
Slaw readers might be interested in a report of the trial of eight of the conspiritors, including Fawkes, on January 27, 1605.
I thought
Slaw readers might find the article interesting.
In the meantime, if you are serious about finding new voices and getting them to the decision - making table, I encourage you to follow the #LSBencher tag on Twitter, return often to the ever - growing Law Times candidate profile page, and let others, including
Slaw readers, know where to find information about candidates.
For example, if I wanted to make a patch of text available on a temporary basis to interested
Slaw readers, I might park it on a pastebin and then put the URL on a tweet for those who follow us on Twitter.
I don't have the time or expertise to go down most of those roads, though I'd be happy to learn what lies there if
Slaw readers happen to know.
Like many
Slaw readers, I look forward to the next educative moment — which is just around the corner!
[Note: UBC Press has kindly offered
Slaw readers a 20 % discount on this book.
In addition to the West Perspectives publication,
Slaw readers should also consider monitoring or getting RSS feeds on some of the more interesting blogs on legal writing:
It will come as no surprise to legal researchers of as innovative a bent as
Slaw readers that the courts have had a field day with Valentine's Day:
As
Slaw readers may know, this sort of imaginative use of technology to improve legal documents interests me greatly.
A question for
Slaw readers: Does this font addition create enough of an incentive to start using Google Docs if you aren't using it now?
I have prided myself from time to time on introducing
Slaw readers to fairly arcane resources, but this may take the cake of abstruseness.
But
Slaw readers — who mostly know what they don't know, right?
Slaw readers who enjoy a little legal philosophy might take a look at the OUP (Oxford University Press) Blog post by John Gardner, «When law is part of the problem ``, in which he addresses one of the issues from his new book of essays, Law as a Leap of Faith.
It's been a great long time since I claimed any expertise in family law, but the fuss over today's Globe and Mail front page headline (see the story here) concerning the availability of divorce to foreign same - sex couples married here in Canada has tempted me to put a toe in the waters again, just to check with
Slaw readers that my understanding is correct or off base.
I've not run comparison searches with Nomus and CanLII — but I'm sure that
Slaw readers will do that and report to us.
I thus figure that there are probably people among
the Slaw readers that have an interest in browser evolution.
As many
Slaw readers will know, much of the trading in finds and pointers on the internet has moved into «real time» applications, principally Twitter.
Finally, our friends at Clio have generously offered
Slaw readers a $ 400 discount on registration (use discount code «CCC2014 - SLAW» when you register).
As before, the UBC Press offers
Slaw readers a discount on the price.
I think most
Slaw readers have come across this site at some point in their web travels.
I'm probably not alone in wanting to see more of this type of engagement from courts across the country, so I encourage
all Slaw readers to help make this a successful event.
I'm posting this early so that I'll have tonight and tomorrow and because I'm asking
Slaw readers to drink a toast — using a favourite tipple: mine will be a Macallan 15 single malt that I'll tip at exactly midnight EST, tonight — to a blog that was and may yet be again.
As
Slaw readers may know from news reports today (see, e.g., the Gobe and Mail front page story), the LCO has just released a report on part of that study, «Voices from a Broken Family Justice System: Sharing Consultations Results,» setting out what they've learned from wide consultation with organizations, agencies, and people who are or staff the «entry points» into the family justice system in the province... [more]
Slaw readers know this from their work, too, of course: unique case names, unique catalogue numbers, and the like.
It's barely conceivable, but
some Slaw readers may not resort to Google today, what with the fact that it's a Saturday, summer and all.
Okay
Slaw readers, is this the markets in pursuit of an easy story?
Slaw readers can vote — and suggest what's missing: my candidates for the prettiest missing law libraries would be the Great Library at Osgoode Hall
Long - standing
Slaw readers may remember our salaciously titled post on beautiful libraries.
Similar exercises have been undertaken in Australia, CanadaDo
any Slaw readers know when this happened?
Slaw readers would be interested in the blogosphere's reactions to Harvard.
Have
any SLAW readers has similar experiences?
Anyone can be distracted and even though
Slaw readers have been reading concept heavy, footnoted works for most of their adult lives, it is easy to go off to a tangential link and never come back.
As
Slaw readers may know from news reports today (see, e.g., the Gobe and Mail front page story), the LCO has just released a report on part of that study, «Voices from a Broken Family Justice System: Sharing Consultations Results,» setting out what they've learned from wide consultation with organizations, agencies, and people who are or staff the «entry points» into the family justice system in the province.
As the project moves forward, regardless of whether one's interests are in the area of mediation or technology, the insights provided should prove interesting to
Slaw readers.
Came across this article and thought
SLAW readers might find it useful.
And much of what gets retailed is old hat — certainly for
Slaw readers.
Slaw readers may be captivated by the Seward prosecution for duck hunting on lighthouse property, which reads like something out of the 1928 Rockbound by Frank Parker Day [yes I know that's Nova Scotia].
As a number of
Slaw readers will already know, Tara Calishain at ResearchBuzz digs up some great stuff.
But
Slaw readers can get a sneak preview — just launched today — of what the CBA gurus think is happening.
I won't bombard
Slaw readers with a weekly report, but wanted to relay my thanks after a really great first week for LegalPubs.
Slaw readers of a certain age will remember her meticulous work «Using a law library: a guide for students and lawyers in the common law provinces of Canada» which went through six editions between 1974 and 1994... [more]
In the meantime, if
Slaw readers are interested in contributing in areas we don't yet have, or those we do, we'd love to hear from them.
This is the first obituary in Slaw, but it's a tribute to a figure whom many
Slaw readers may not have known but who was very significant in the development of a distinct Canadian legal culture.