Nahum Gelber Law Library

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Or see the Gelber Library page for information https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/law
Thank you,
Ana Rogers-Butterworth
Liaison Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library

À chaque mois, le texte intégral d’ouvrages juridiques clés est régulièrement ajouté à l’Espace CAIJ.
En tant que membre du CAIJ, vous pouvez y consulter ce mois-ci :
• Travail Plus : le travail et vos droits, 11e éd. : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/wilson-et-lafleur-livres/176/
• Volume 519 - Développements récents en droit des affaires (2022) : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/developpements-recents/519/
• Volume 520 - Colloque national sur l’action collective (2022) : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/developpements-recents/520/
• Volume 521 - Développements récents en matière de propriété intellectuelle et en droit du divertissement (2022) : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/developpements-recents/521/
• Volume 522 - Développements récents en enquêtes internes et réglementaires (2022) : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/developpements-recents/522/
• Volume 523 - Développements récents en droit des Autochtones (2022) : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/developpements-recents/523/
• Volume 524 - Développements récents en droit de la santé (2022) : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/developpements-recents/524
• Les parutions des cinq dernières années de la R***e Gestion HEC : https://edoctrine.caij.qc.ca/revue%20gestion%20hec%20montr%C3%A9al/R***es/R***es

Join us at the Nahum Gelber Library On October 19th, 1-2pm for Lexis Advance Quicklaw training with a Lexis representative.

À chaque mois, le texte intégral d’ouvrages juridiques clés est régulièrement ajouté à l’Espace CAIJ.
En tant que membre du CAIJ, vous pouvez y consulter ce mois-ci :
• Code civil du Québec annoté Baudouin Renaud (2022)
La deuxième mise à jour de la version numérique est maintenant en ligne.
• Code de procédure civile Québec (Alter Ego 2022)
La réputation de cet ouvrage associant jurisprudence et doctrine pertinente à chaque article du Code de procédure civile n’est plus à faire.
• Traité de droit de la sécurité nationale : États-Unis d’Amérique/Canada
Ce traité sur la sécurité nationale en Amérique du Nord explore en profondeur des concepts liés à la géopolitique, au droit criminel, à la surveillance et au renseignement, au contrôle des exportations commerciales et à la corruption.

Pour tous les détails : https://bit.ly/3UBQxQ5

Ever come across an abbreviation in a citation that you just can’t figure out? Luckily we have some very comprehensive abbreviation guides on our Law Reference LibGuide page https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/c.php?g=358153&p=2418370

Guides: Reference sources: Legal abbreviations Legal abbreviations sources, legal dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, citations styles, and more

Check out this blog post with some very interesting stats on Law School Journals:

Visualizing the Landscape of Canadian Law School Journals - Slaw In my role at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, I help facilitate both the creation and dissemination of scholarly knowledge through law journals. As a result, I have developed many questions and curiosities surrounding scholarly publishing practices. While the larger ones require empirical research,....

End of an era...

Daniel Boyer retiring after twenty-four years at the Nahum Gelber Law Library With sincere gratitude, the Faculty of Law is bidding farewell to Mtre Daniel Boyer, Ad. E., who is retiring from his role as Wainwright librarian and head law librarian. His last day will be 14 April 2022. Daniel Boyer joined McGill University as Wainwright librarian in 1998, and has served three t...

As we enter the last month of the winter semester, many of you are frantically finishing (or starting!) your term papers. This includes the so often overlooked until the last minute: citations. If you haven’t been using a citation manager then it’s time to start, these tools help keep you on track throughout your research so you aren’t left 12 hours to deadline with a beautifully written paper and a jumbled mess of citations. You have a few options of which software to use that you can read about on our citations LibGuide https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/citation/home
The little known fact which may influence your choice of software, is that Zotero actually includes the McGill 9th Edition Cite Guide in their style repository. This can definitely save you some time but comes with a big caveat that you still need to double check the automated citations. Zotero will get you started but legal citations often require a bit more creativity than a software can provide.

Guides: Citation guides: Home Guides: Citation guides: Home

Sometimes I get a research question that I think is going to take me 5 minutes and it ends up taking closer to 5 hours! Last week I got a question from someone looking for Canadian Prime Minister’s speeches, and not from 100 years ago, they were specifically looking for speeches given by Stephen Harper. I also know (and now you do too) that the full content of every speech given by the current Prime Minister can be found on their website (https://pm.gc.ca). So surely we have immaculate preservation of Prime Ministerial speeches from 2006-2015? Well, preserved maybe, but not so accessible. A search for former PM speeches will lead to a lot of dead ends and broken links. This is when I turn to my #1 research Frenemy, The Wayback Machine. If you don’t know about it, go check it out (https://archive.org/web/) it’s a web archiving tool and you can find some very funny 90’s websites archived there. It also turns out to sometimes be helpful for research. Like when you need a PM speech from 2011, so you search https://pm.gc.ca in the Wayback Machine, select your date and find a copy of the 2011 Prime Minister's website with full speech content included.

Prime Minister of Canada - Premier ministre du Canada Right Honourable Justin Trudeau - Le très honorable Justin Trudeau

Many McGill Law students are excited about the prospect of writing an independent term paper in lieu of a regular class. However, this can be confusing if you have never written a term paper before. We’ve gotten a few questions lately asking for a “term essay template” or a “proposal template” that the library might have on hand for students to follow. Well, the answer is no, we do not have a standardized template for term essays at McGill. Ultimately, the guidelines you should follow will be provided by your supervisor, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get an idea of what a term essay (or proposal) might look like before you commit yourself to the process.
A quick google search will bring up templates offered by other law schools, such as this sample proposal from York University:https://www.york.ac.uk/media/cahr/phd/Research%20Proposal.pdf
Or this guide from Monash University https://www.monash.edu/law/research/graduate-research/preparing-research-proposal
We also have some great books that cover paper writing for Law School, here’s just a few:
https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1257314133
https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/978545878
https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/619908274
But the bottom line is ask your supervisor! These resources will give you an idea of what will be expected of you, but your supervisor has final say.

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