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Law Reference

Essential Sources of Canadian Law / Les références essentielles en droit canadien

edited by John Eaton & Denis Le May

Publisher
Irwin Law Inc.
Initial publish date
May 2009
Category
Reference
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552211649
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $29.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552213070
    Publish Date
    May 2009
    List Price
    $29.95

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Following the premise that legal research should begin with secondary sources, John Eaton and Denis Le May have compiled a bibliographic reference to the most authoritative secondary sources in French and English. The book is arranged according to topic, with 105 topics cross-referred between French and English, and includes both civil and common law sources. This unique work will be applicable throughout the entire country — geographically, linguistically, and juridically. Each topic includes a short descriptor, orienting the reader to the nature of the topic and to its jurisdictional fundamentals as it is often important to know which entities are the ultimate creators of the statutes, regulations, and jurisprudence associated with the topic. Each of these topic descriptors is provided in English and in French. This work will be of interest to a wide range of potential users, including Canadian legal researchers, scholars, librarians, and students. It will also serve as a valuable tool for those less familiar with Canadian legal resources and who need assistance in determining where to look for sources on their topic of interest. Self-represented litigants, public libraries, and non-Canadian legal researchers are just a few examples of groups who could put this work to good use.

About the authors

John Eaton, LL.B. (Toronto), M.L.S. (Maryland) is the Law Librarian and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba where he teaches advanced legal research. He is past president of Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association Canadienne des bibliotheques de droit.

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Denis Le May is the former law librarian at Université Laval, and the author of many books and articles. He has written a definitive French treatise on legal research, as well as the chapter on Quebec research in Douglass T. MacEllvan’s Legal Research Handbook. He is the author of The Civil Code of Québec in Chart Form which was published by Irwin Law in 2006 which is based on his Le code civil du Québec en tableaux synoptiques, (Wilson & Lafleur,1992). He is past president of Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association Canadienne des bibliotheques de droit.

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