New Book Display – Law and Technology

With new innovations in technology, and changes in how we access information, it is important to be aware of what new problems and solutions are out there. The Law Library can help keep you up-to-date with new texts, online materials, newsletters, and current awareness resources. Displayed here is a collection of current texts and resources to help keep you informed, as well as a few past publications showing the importance and evolution of technology.

  • Digital evidence : a practitioner’s handbook by Gerald Chan
  • Sookman: Computer, internet and electronic commerce law
  • Yearbook of law, computers and technology.  
  • Computer, Internet and electronic Commerce Terms
  • Doing business on-line : advising clients on the legal issues
  • Companies Online – A Live System Demonstration
  • Computer Law, George Takach
  • Cyberlibel : Information Warfare in the 21st Century? David Potts
  • Courts, Litigants, and the Digital Age — 2 ed. : Law, Ethics, and Practice, Karen Eltis

Also be sure to check out the resources behind the Member’s portal including access to these recently updated journals on HeinOnline:

  • John Marshall Journal of Information Technology and Privacy Law
  • European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL)
  • Berkeley Technology Law Journal

Keep up to date with these Publications and Events
Law Society of Manitoba Communique including articles on Cyber Scams and Practice Management Software
ABA Techshow

New Library Resources

The Library has recently added the following new Continuing Professional Development resources to our collection.

  • Companies Online – A Live System Demonstration
  • Drafting Wills 101
  • Estate Administration 101
  • 2018 Hot Topics in Real Estate
  • Evidence “Rules” Every Family Law Lawyers Needs to Know
  • All About Bail Applications
  • The Bills of Exchange Act
  • 2019 Hot Topics in Real Estate

Click here to browse our entire collection of CPD material

Library Closure

The Great Library will be closed on Monday, February 17th for Louis Riel Day.

Louis Riel Day

Normal hours will resume on Tuesday, Februrary 18th.

After hours access is available for lawyers by showing their Fast Track card and signing in at the security desk at the Kennedy Street staff entrance. After hours access is 4:30 – 10:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on weekends and statutory holidays.

Latest Law Journal Issues

New issues of the following journals are now available through WestlawNext Canada. If you would like to read any of these articles, or if you are interested in any other publications we offer, please contact us for assistance at library@lawsociety.mb.ca.

University of Toronto Law Journal, Winter 2020

  • Unity in the Eye of the Beholder? Reasons for Decision in Theory and Practice in the Ontario Works Program, Jennifer Raso
  • Corrective Justice, Coherence, and Kantian Right, Andrew Fell
  • Nothing to Hide, but Something to Lose, Ignacio N Cofone
  • Alan Brudner, The Owl and the Rooster: Hegel’s Transformative Political Science (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), Thom Brooks, Durham Law School

Education & Law Journal, January 2020

  • Religion in Canadian Public Schools: Constitutionalized Anomalies, Diana Ginn, Javier García Oliva, Edward R. Lewis
  • Educator Malpractice: A Tort Whose Time Has Come?, David C. Young
  • Classroom Assessment, Court Cases, and Parental Demands from a Political Systems Perspective: It’s Black Outside the Box, Darryl Hunter, Paul Clarke
  • Graduate Students and Striking Employees: Two Roles, One Disciplinary Process, Emily Finnie
  • No Harm, No Foul in Sex Education: Can Statutory Protections Insulate Actors from Liability?, Lisa Bush
  • Reconciling Judicial Review, Parmbir Gill
  • Courts Miss an Opportunity to Rule on the Privacy Rights of Students Who Join Gay–Straight Alliances, Emily Lewsen

Intellectual Property Journal, December, 2019

  • From Start-Up to Scale-Up Innovation, Giuseppina (Pina) D’Agostino
  • Conflicted Regulation, the Public Interest and Canadian Patent Agency– Patent Agent Regulation at a Crossroads (Part I), Wissam Aoun
  • Having Enough: From Sufficiency to Non-Domination in International IP Law, Dr. Johan Rochel
  • Is the Sky Falling for the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Industry? A Case Study on the Impact of Canadian Copyright Law Reform on the Commercialization of Legal Technology Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Cameron McMaster

Canadian Journal of Law and Technology, December, 2019

  • Hiring Algorithms in the Canadian Private Sector: Examining the Promise of Greater Workplace Equality, Connor Bildfell
  • Technology, the Changing Nature of Disputes, and the Future of Equitable Principles in Canadian Contract Law, Conrad Flaczyk
  • Subverting Democracy to Save Democracy: Canada’s Extra-Constitutional Approaches to Battling “Fake News”, Michael Karanicolas
  • Flying under the Radar: Two Decades of DNA Testing at IRCC, Ida Ngueng Feze, Gabriel Marrocco, Miriam Pinkesz, Jacqueline Lacey, Yann Joly
  • Privacy Law Issues in Public Blockchains: An Analysis of Blockchain, PIPEDA, the GDPR, and Proposals for Compliance, Noah Walters
  • Developing a Privacy Code of Practice for Connected and Automated Vehicles,  Rajen Akalu
  • Ethical Hacking by Alana Maurushat (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2019), Laura Ellyson

 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, December, 2019 

  • Funding Environmental Projects with Regulatory Prosecutions: Transparency and Accountability in Creative Environmental Sentencing, Shaun Fluker, Janice Paskey, Fiona L. Balaton
  • The Prairie Resilience: Myth or Reality?, Adebayo Majekolagbe
  • Canadian Public Trust Doctrine at Common Law: Requirements and Effectiveness, Vladislav Mukhomedzyanov

Manitoba Law Library will close at 11am on June 25 for a private event.
Staff will be available by email for research and reference questions.