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Law Library at Allard Hall
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Highlighted Collections
- Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (COAL-RJAL Editorial Group)
- CanLII BooksCanLII's open access legal commentary texts.
- ElgarOnlineIncludes scholarly research monographs, research handbooks, companions, dictionaries, encyclopedia & journals across Law, Business, Economics & the Social Sciences. Browse available law titles.
- Bloomsbury Law Collections (Hart)Books sourced from Hart Publishing and Verlag C.H. Beck on academic study of law as well as to its development and practical implementation.
- Irwin Law's E-Library via vLex GlobalAccess to many Irwin Law titles online, including the "Essentials of Canadian Law" series. These books provide 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.
- Lexis ResourcesProvides full-text access to resources on a wide variety of legal topics.
- Oxford ReferenceBrings together Oxford University Press’s dictionaries, companions and encyclopedias. Can refine browse by subject: law.
- ProViewThomson Reuters Proview provides electronic access to looseleaf titles on a wide variety of legal topics
- University Press Scholarship OnlineSelect titles are available from the following university presses: Oxford University, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Hong Kong, MIT, Stanford University & Yale. Browse available law titles.
Other Collections
- Canada CommonsCanadian Documents Collection includes research papers, reports, studies, policy papers & briefs, discussion papers, numbered series, working papers, political party platforms, evidence reviews, systematic reviews, economic evaluations and environmental scans.
- CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Journals indexed | e-Books - Early English Books Online (EEBO) > Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales & British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
- Government of Canada Publications (depository collection)Internet publications provided by the Canadian government's Depository Services Program. Includes titles from Statistics Canada, Dept. of Finance, Industry Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the NAFTA Secretariat, the Geological Survey of Canada, Library of Parliament, and the Translation Bureau.
- Legal Classics Library (via HeinOnline e-Books)Contains more than 1,200 works throughout legal history. Includes rare items, this collection focuses on constitutional law, political science, and other classic topics.
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926Provides digital images for all pages of 22,000 American and British legal treatises published between 1800 through 1926. With full-text searching capabilities, provides access to over 10 million pages from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.