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Canadian Open Access Legal Citation (COAL) Guide

July 9, 2025

The COAL Guide is an open access legal citation guide for anyone who cites legal materials. This award-winning guide was originally published in June 2024 and incorporates feedback contributed by reviewers from Canadian courts, law firms, law journals, law societies, and law schools. An updated version of the guide that includes expansions based on user feedback was published in July 2025 and a French version is coming soon. Explore the COAL Guide on CanLII for writing, editing, or teaching.

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The Law Library Blog provides up-to-date information regarding services, events, resources, and news relevant to the Law Library at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver.

Light Reads @ the Law Library

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Irwin Law e-Books

UBC Library has access to many Irwin Law titles online, including the “Essentials of Canadian Law” series. Includes: a good overview of the law in a broad range of subject areas including criminal law, torts, contracts, environmental law, evidence, trusts and constitutional law Revised August 9, 2016

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Allard School of Law Faculty Publication Titles in 2015

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History of the Law Library: 1945-2015

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The Law Library Staff is Here to Help!

The Law Library staff is here to help!

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Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

UBC Library now has a subscription to Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics provides comprehensive coverage of law and economics, including: criminal law, regulation, property law, contract law, tort law, labor and employment law, antitrust law, procedural law, and the production of legal rules. Each theme or volume is overseen […]

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Pay for Print

UBC Library has transitioned from the use of special purpose copy cards, to a one card system. Faculty, students, and staff who wish to make photocopies or print documents from the library will use their UBCcard. The Pay for Print service requires an activated UBCcard account. You can do this at the http://payforprint.ubc.ca link labeled […]

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Printing from Laptops

Did you know that you can send print jobs from your laptops? You can print from your own PCs / Macbooks laptops, via the UBCSecure wireless network, to our library printers. For information to set this up, see Pay for Print for Students, Faculty, and Staff. Notes: the laptop must be connected to the “UBCSecure” wireless […]

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Citation Guide

As a companion to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (McGill Guide) which is only available in print at UBC Library, we have created an online Legal Citation Guide. There is a link to this guide from the Law Library homepage, directly under the heading “Research Resources.” The McGill Guide focuses on the citation […]

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Browse new books in the Law Library Learning Commons

Most circulating new books received by the Law Library will be placed temporarily on the New Books shelf in the Learning Commons on Level 2 (main level of the Law Library). Feel free to browse and check them out! A list of these new books, which also includes new books shelved in the Reference Room, […]

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