Construction & Shifting Project in the Law Library

Construction in the Law Library Library renovations will begin on Tuesday, May 3rd. The wooden Ph.D carrels on the top floor will be dismantled, a new meeting/training room will be constructed in the NE area of the top floor, new Ph.D carrels will be located along the west side of the top floor, and an […]

Jon Festinger’s New Book – ‘Video Game Law’

Jon Festinger, an adjunct professor who teaches Law 449 – Media & Entertainment Law, will be launching his book, ‘Video Game Law’ Date: Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 Time: 4 PM to 6 PM (presentation to start at 4:45) Place: The Media Club, 695 Cambie Street (at Georgia) Cost: $10 for members; $20 for non-members; $5 […]

New Books at the Law Library – 05/05/02

E99.T92 K56 2003
Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Kluane First Nation Final Agreement among the Government of Canada and Kluane First Nation and the Government of the Yukon (Ottawa: Indian Affairs and Northern Development, 2003).

HD2741 .V65 2004
Kernaghan Webb, ed., Voluntary codes : private governance, the public interest and innovation ([Ottawa]: Carleton Research Unit for Innovation, Science and Environment, Carleton University 2004).

KA10 .T66 2004
Jarkko Tontti, Right and prejudice : prolegomena to a hermeneutical philosophy of law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

KA70.E8 K73 2004
Kramer, Matthew H., Where law and morality meet (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004021135.html

KB169 .D46 2004
Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella, & Elin Skaar, eds., Democratization and the judiciary : the accountability function of courts in new democracies (London: Frank Cass, 2004).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019752.html

KB181 .F74 2004
Mark Freeman & Gibran van Ert, International human rights law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2004).

KL1 .M644 2004
James E. Moliterno & Fredric I. Lederer, An introduction to law, law study, and the lawyer’s role, 2nd ed. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2004).

KL22 .B377 2004
Jeb Barnes, Overruled? : legislative overrides, pluralism, and contemporary court-Congress relations (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003023971.html

KL62 .B36 2004
Steven C. Bennett, The path to partnership : a guide for junior associates (Westport: Praeger, 2004).

KL62 .B552 2004
David A. Binder, et al., Lawyers as counselors : a client centered approach, 2nd ed. (St. Paul: Thomson/West, 2004).

KM176 .I77 2003
Barbara Bogusz, et al., eds., Irregular migration and human rights : theoretical, European, and international perspectives (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004).

KM208.432 .E53 2004
Bruce E. Johansen, ed., Enduring legacies : Native American treaties and contemporary controversies (Westport: Praeger, 2004).

KM222 .W588 2004
David G. Savage, The Supreme Court and individual rights, 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2004).

KM335 .D395 2004
David W. Williams & Geoffrey Morse, Davies principles of tax law, 5th ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2004).

KM336.49 .T386 2004
Paul Bater, Frits Hondius, & Penina Kessler Lieber, eds., The tax treatment of NGOs : legal, fiscal, and ethical standards for promoting NGOs and their activities (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004).

KM506 .R33 2004
Dana Y. Rabin, Identity, crime, and legal responsibility in eighteenth-century England (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Contributor biographical information: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol059/2004050533.html
Publisher description: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004050533.html

KM555.O7 M34 2004
Alison Manzer, A guide to Canadian money laundering legislation (Markham: LexisNexis Canada, 2004).

KM573 .U5588 2004
Stephen Macedo, ed., Universal jurisdiction : national courts and the prosecution of serious crimes under international law (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

KM604.9 .P37 2000
John Parry & Eric Y. Drogin, Criminal law handbook on psychiatric and psychological evidence and testimony (Washington, DC: American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, 2000).

KN30 .S537 2003
Marshall S. Shapo, Tort law and culture (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2003).

KN33.5 .B76 2003
Janine M. Brookner, Piercing the veil of secrecy : litigation against U.S. intelligence (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2003).

KN95.11 .K56 2004
Thomas F. King, Cultural resource laws and practice : an introductory guide, 2nd ed. (Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2004).

KN111 .A953 2004
Shahid Alikhan and Raghunath Mashelkar, Intellectual property and competitive strategies in the 21st century (The Hague : Kluwer Law International, 2004).

KN114.1 .R457 2004
David B. Resnik, Owning the genome : a moral analysis of DNA patenting (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004).

KN152.2 .W654 2003
Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach & Patricia Smith, eds., Women and the United States Constitution : history, interpretation, and practice (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).

KN172.7 .B35 2002
Howard Ball, The Supreme Court in the intimate lives of Americans : birth, sex, marriage, childrearing, and death (New York: New York University Press, 2002).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002004198.html

KN184 .L66 2004
Susan D. Looney, Education and the legal system : a guide to understanding the law (Upper Saddle River: Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2004).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002004198.html

KN185.32 .C545 2003
Mark A. Ryan, ed., The Clean Water Act handbook, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, American Bar Association, 2003).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip043/2003010677.html

KN185.69.A5 R65 2004
Joe Rollins, AIDS and the sexuality of law : ironic jurisprudence (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol041/2003054935.html
Publisher description: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol032/2003054935.html

KN265.9.N6 F74 2004
Marion R. Fremont-Smith, Governing nonprofit organizations : federal and state law and regulation (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004).

KN347.3 .E45 2004
Niva Elkin-Koren & Eli M. Salzberger, Law, economics and cyberspace : the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004).

KN350 .L687 2004
Paula Loughlin & Stephen Gerlis, Civil procedure, 2nd ed. (London: Cavendish Pub., 2004).

KN390 .L36 2004
Donald J. Lange, The doctrine of res judicata in Canada, 2nd ed. (Toronto: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004).

KT4399 .M68 2004
Michael J. Moser & Teresa Y.W. Cheng, Hong Kong arbitration : a user’s guide (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004).

KV19.8 .R452 2004
Karen Reid, A practitioner’s guide to the European Convention on Human Rights, 2nd ed. (London: Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, 2004).

KV1126 .A2613 2004
Christian Dodd (translated by), The French code of civil procedure in English, 2004 (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana Publications, 2004).

KV1704 .R34 2003
Murray J. Raff, Private property and environmental responsibility : a comparative study of German real property law (Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2003).

KZ3410 .Y44 2004
Sienho Yee, Towards an international law of co-progressiveness (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004).

KZ6310 .S33 2004
William A. Schabas, An introduction to the International Criminal Court, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Publisher description: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam032/2003055727.html
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam032/2003055727.html

KZ6355 .N49 2003
David Wippman & Matthew Evangelista, eds., New wars, new laws? : applying the laws of war in 21st century conflicts (Ardsley: Transnational Publishers, 2005).

KZ6471 .C87 2005
Jean-Marie Henckaerts & Louise Doswald-Beck, eds., Customary international humanitarian law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
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New Books at the Law Library – 05/04/25

HD7256.C2 D93 2000
Dianne E.G. Dyck, Disability management : theory, strategy and industry practice (Toronto: Butterworths, 2000).

HD7256.C3 L42 2002
Ann Leckie & Manjit Grewal, Disability claims management, 2nd ed. (Markham: Butterworths, 2002).

KA10 .L4326 2004
George Wright & Maria Wyant Stalzer Cuzzo, eds.,, The legal studies reader : a conversation & readings about law (New York : P. Lang, 2004).
Table of Contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019421.html

KA60 .T738 2003
Teresa Kissane Brostoff & Ann Sinsheimer, The sociology of law : a bibliography of theoretical literature, 3rd ed. (Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 2003).

KL130 .K466 2004
Duncan Kennedy & Paul Carrington, Legal education and the reproduction of hierarchy : a polemic against the system : a critical edition (New York: New York University Press, 2004).

KL142 .B76 2003
Teresa Kissane Brostoff & Ann Sinsheimer, Legal English : an introduction to the legal language and culture of the United States, 2nd ed. (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana Publications, 2003).

KL227.1 .E84 2005
David L. Parry, Essential readings in juvenile justice (Upper Saddle River: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005).
Table of Contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004000988.html

KM506.2 .P368 2001
John Parry & Eric Y. Drogin, Civil law handbook on psychiatric and psychological evidence and testimony (Washington, DC: American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, 2001).

KM544.4 .C63 2004
Carolyn Cocca, Jailbait : the politics of statutory rape laws in the United States (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004).

KM590.Q11 T88 2004
Lee Tustin & Robert E. Lutes, A guide to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Toronto: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004).

KN111 .M377 2004
Renée Marlin-Bennett, Knowledge power : intellectual property, information, and privacy (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004).
Table of Contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004001837.html

KN155.3 .P369 2002
John Parry & F. Philips Gilliam, Handbook on mental disability law (Washington, DC: American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, 2002).

KN176.5 .C38 2004
Emma Cave, The mother of all crimes : human rights, criminalization, and the child born alive (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

KN250 .F475 2004
Field, Arthur Norman, Legal opinions in business transactions (Practising Law Institute, 2004).

KN384.99.C66 W47 2004
Peter Westen, The logic of consent : the diversity and deceptiveness of consent as a defense to criminal conduct (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

KZ1301 .S39 2004
Shirley V. Scott, The political interpretation of multilateral treaties (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004).

KZ6310 .I584 2004
Cesare P.R. Romano, André Nollkaemper, &Jann K. Kleffner, eds., Internationalized criminal courts and tribunals : Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo, and Cambodia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004021134.html

Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1918-1981

The UBC Library has a new subscription to Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1918-1981 from WilsonWeb. This index is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations from print editions of Index to Legal Periodicals published between 1918-1981. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Index to Legal Periodicals […]

New Court Reforms in British Columbia

Changes to court rules to improve access to court for British Columbians was announced by Attorney General Geoff Plant on March 30th, 2005, to be effective September 1st, 2005. This includes raising the financial limit for disputes in small claims court from the previous limit of $10,000 to $25,000. News Release Backgrounder

New Electronic Services

The UBC Library has new subscriptions to 3 online resources from Thompson Gale. Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926: http://resources.library.ubc.ca/969/ Provides digital images for all pages of 22,000 American and British legal treatises published between 1800 through 1926. Using full-text searching, researchers can access over 10 million pages from casebooks, local practice manuals, form […]

Upcoming Amendments to the Copyright Act

An announcement regarding upcoming amendments to Copyright legislation is here. Includes links to a backgrounder with highlights of the proposed legislation, a copy of the Joint Statement, and series of frequently asked questions.

National Committee on Accreditation (NCA)

National Committee on Accreditation (NCA) Textbooks Supreme Court of Canada [SCC] Cases

Air India Ruling

The decision to acquit two Sikh men on charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1985 Air India bombing, R. v. Malik and Bagri is available from the Courts of British Columbia website here.