Just published – Volume 39, Issues 1 and 2 of the Manitoba Law Journal. The theme of this volume is “The Great Transition in Legal Education”. It’s filled with interviews with notable Manitoba legal luminaries, such as former Court of Appeal Justice Charles Huband, former dean of the Manitoba Law School Jack London, Justice Freda Steel and retired University of Manitoba law school librarian John Eaton.
With the high cost of subscription caselaw databases, we’re always looking for authoritative free sources. The Free Law Project is a California non-profit public benefit corporation whose mission is to “provide free, public, and permanent access to primary legal materials on the Internet”. Working with PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) they have collected every free order and opinion available on PACER and published them on an easy-to-use site called CourtListener.
PACER is similar to our Court Registry. It hosts case file documents and docket information for all district, bankruptcy and appellate courts. While it’s not free, it is very reasonably priced. If you’re looking for document information for a U.S. decision, we have an account with PACER and can help you find it.
CourtListener and Google Scholar should be of benefit to those firms who can’t justify subscribing to a U.S. database.
(Hat tip to The Washington Post’s The Volokh Conspiracy column.)
Since I’ve been in law libraries, the legal publishing field has gotten smaller and smaller. Now there’s a new contender – vLex Canada . Shaunna Mireau posted about it on Slaw.ca.
Just in case you haven’t been watching, Maritime Law Book is now Compass and Compass introduced vLex Canada. There are some interesting and useful delighters with vLex Canada Open.
Check it out for yourself.
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