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Irwin Law e-Books

May 30th, 2012 by Elim | Comments Off

UBC Library has access to many Irwin Law titles online, including the “Essentials of Canadian Law” series.

Includes: 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
To find a particular Irwin Law e-Book on the library catalogue, click on keyword (use AND, OR, NOT, or a “phrase”) and use search terms such as the following examples:
- constitutional and monahan
- “irwin law” and contracts

These titles can now be downloaded to computers & other devices including the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and Sony Reader – for more information, click here. iPad & iPhone users should have ebrary installed before downloading an entire document as an e-book.

List of “Essentials of Canadian Law” e-Books (along with a select few other Irwin Law titles) (list updated February 12, 2012)

Link	Title	Author	Year of Publication
Link	The ABCs of Law School: A Practical Guide to Success without Sacrifice	Ali, Ramsay	2002
Link	Adding Feminism to Law: The Contributions of Justice Claire L’Heureux-Dubé	Sheey, Elizabeth	2004
Link	Administrative Law	Mullan, David	2001
Link	Advocacy and Taxation in Canada	Chodikoff, David W.	2004
Link	Alternative Dispute Resolution: Skills, Science, and the Law	Pirie, Andrew	2000
Link	Animals and the Law	Bisgould, Leslie	2011
Link	The Annotated Ontario Mental Health Statutes, Fourth Edition	Schneider, Richard D.	2007
Link	Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society	Azmi, Shaheen; Foster, Lorne & Jacobs, Lesley	2012
Link	Bank and Customer Law in Canada	Ogilvie, M.H.	2007
Link	Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law	Wood, Roderick	2009
Link	The British Manual of International Air Carriage	Holding, John D.	2009
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 1 No. 2	Various	2004
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 2 No. 2	Various	2005
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 3 No. 1	Various	2006
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 3 No. 2	Various	2006
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 4 No. 1	Various	2007
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 4 No. 2	Various	2008
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 5 No. 1	Various	2008
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 5 No. 2	Various	2009
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 6 No. 1	Various	2010
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 6 No. 2	Various	2010
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 7 No. 1	Various	2011
Link	The Canadian Class Action Review Volume 7 No. 2	Various	2011
Link	Canadian Family Law, 4th Edition	Payne, Julien D.	2011
Link	Canadian Family Law, Second Edition	Payne, Julien D.	2006
Link	Canadian Family Law, Third Edition	Payne, Julien D.	2008
Link	Canadian Law and Private Investigations	Groot, Norman	2001
Link	Canadian Libel and Slander Actions	Potts, David A.	2004
Link	Canadian Manual of International Air Carriage	Holding, John	2005
Link	Canadian Telecommunications Law	Howell, Robert	2011
Link	The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Fourth Edition	Sharpe, Robert J.	2009
Link	The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Third Edition	Sharpe, Robert J.	2005
Link	Child Support Guidelines in Canada, 2012	Payne, Julien D. & Payne, Marilyn A.	2012
Link	Child Support Guidelines in Canada, 2009	Payne, Julien D.	2009
Link	Children and the Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Bala	Anand, Sanjeev	2011
Link	Civil Actions for Uncivilized Acts	Larocque, Francois	2010
Link	The Civil Code of Quebec in Chart Form	Le May, Denis	2006
Link	Civil Litigation	Sossin, Lorne	2010
Link	The Colour of Justice: Policing Race in Canada	Tanovich, David M.	2006
Link	Commissions of Inquiry: Praise or Reappraise?	Manson, Allan	2003
Link	The Companies We Keep: Corporate Governance for a Democratic Society	Hutchinson, Allan C.	2005
Link	Competition Policy and Intellectual Property	Boyer, Marcel	2009
Link	Computer Law, Second Edition	Takach, George	2003
Link	The Conduct of Public Inquiries: Law, Policy and Practice	Ratushny, Ed	2009
Link	Conflict of Laws	Pitel, Stephen G.A	2010
Link	Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada	Faraday, Fay	2012
Link	Constitutional Law, Third Edition	Monahan, Patrick J.	2006
Link	Copyright Law	Vaver, David	2000
Link	Counsel for the Defence: The Bernard Cohn Memorial Lectures in Criminal Law	Greenspan, Edward L.	2005
Link	Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age : Law, Ethics and Practice	Eltis, Karen	2012
Link	Criminal Law, Fifth Edition	Roach, Kent	2012
Link	Criminal Law, Fourth Edition	Roach, Kent	2009
Link	Criminal Procedure	Coughlan, Stephen	2008
Link	Criminal Procedure, Second Edition	Coughlan, Steve	2012
Link	Cyberlibel	Potts, David	2011
Link	A Cruel Arithmetic: Inside the Case Against Polygamy	Jones, Craig	2012
Link	Detention and Arrest	Coughlan, Steve	2010
Link	Environmental Law, Second Edition	Benidickson, Jamie	2002
Link	Environmental Law, Third Edition	Benidickson, Jamie	2008
Link	Essential Sources of Canadian Law / Les références essentielles en droit canadien	Eaton, John	2009
Link	Ethics and Canadian Criminal Law	Proulx, Michel	2001
Link	Ethos, Pathos, and Logos: The Best of The Advocates’ Society Journal 1982-2004	Stockwood, David	2005
Link	Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach	Gold, Alan D.	2003
Link	Expert Evidence in Criminal Law, The Scientific Approach, Second Edition	Gold, Alan D.	2010
Link	Family Law	Fodden, Simon	1999
Link	Forensic Investigations and Miscarriages of Justice	Sangha, Bibi	2010
Link	Franchise Law	Zaid, Frank	2005
Link	From ‘Radical Extremism’ to ‘Balanced Copyright’	Geist, Michael	2010
Link	Fundamental Justice	Stewart, Hamish	2012
Link	Getting Away With Murder: The Canadian Criminal Justice System	Paciocco, David	1999
Link	The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law	Fitzgerald, Oonagh	2006
Link	Guide to the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act	Perun, Halyna	2005
Link	Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada	Downie, Jocelyn	2007
Link	The Human Rights of Anti-Terrorism	LaViolette, Nicole	2008
Link	Immigration Law	Galloway, Donald	1997
Link	In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law	Geist, Michael	2005
Link	In Whom We Trust: A Forum on Fiduciary Relationships	Law Commission of Canada	2002
Link	Income Tax Law	Krishna, Vern	1997
Link	Income Tax Law, 2nd ed.	Krishna, Vern	2012
Link	Individual Employment Law	England, Geoffrey	2000
Link	Individual Employment Law, Second Edition	England, Geoffrey	2008
Link	Insurance Law	Boivin, Denis	2004
Link	Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks	Vaver, David	1997
Link	Intellectual Property Law, Second Edition	Vaver, David	2011
Link	International and Transnational Criminal Law	Currie, Robert J.	2010
Link	International Human Rights Law	Freeman, Mark	2004
Link	International Trade Law	Johnson, Jon R.	1998
Link	Joint Ventures: Legal and Business Perspectives	Reiter, Barry J	1999
Link	Jury Selection in Criminal Trials: Skills, Science and the Law	Tanovich, David M.	1997
Link	Labour and Employment Law in the Federal Public Service	Rootham, Christopher	2007
Link	The Law of Contracts	McCamus, John	2005
Link	The Law of Equitable Remedies	Berryman, Jeffrey	2000
Link	The Law of Evidence, 6th Edition	Paciocco, David	2011
Link	The Law of Evidence, Fifth Edition	Paciocco, David M.	2008
Link	The Law of Evidence, Fourth Edition	Paciocco, David	2005
Link	The Law of Evidence, Revised Fifth Edition	Paciocco, David M	2010
Link	The Law of Large-Scale Claims: Product Liability, Mass Torts, and Complex Litigation in Canada	Cassels, Jamie	2005
Link	The Law of Partnerships and Corporations, Second Edition	van Duzer, J. Anthony	2003
Link	The Law of Partnerships and Corporations, Third Edition	van Duzer, J. Anthony	2009
Link	The Law of Sentencing	Manson, Allan	2001
Link	The Law of Torts, Fourth Edition	Osborne, Philip H.	2011
Link	The Law of Torts, Second Edition	Osborne, Philip	2003
Link	The Law of Torts, Third Edition	Osborne, Philip H.	2007
Link	The Law of Trusts, Second Edition	Gillese, Eileen E.	2005
Link	The Law School Book: Succeeding at Law School, Second Edition	Hutchinson, Allan C.	2000
Link	The Law School Book, Third Edition	Hutchinson, Allan C.	2009
Link	The Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2001: Constitutional and Administrative Law	Hutchinson, Allan C.	2002
Link	The Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2002: Real Property Law, Conquering the Complexities	Law Society of Upper Canada	2003
Link	The Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2003: The Law of Evidence	Law Society of Upper Canada	2004
Link	The Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2005: The Modern Law of Damages	Law Society of Upper Canada	2006
Link	The Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2006: Family Law	Law Society of Upper Canada	2007
Link	Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2007: Employment Law	Law Society of Upper Canada	2007
Link	Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures 2008: Personal Injury Law	Law Society of Upper Canada	2009
Link	Law Society Special Lectures 2004: Corporate and Commercial Law	Law Society of Upper Canada	2005
Link	Law Society Special Lectures 2010: A Medical-Legal Approach to Estate Planning and Decision Making for Older Clients	Law Society of Upper Canada	2011
Link	The Laws of Government, Second Edition	Forcese, Craig	2011
Link	The Laws of Government: The Legal Foundations of Canadian Democracy	Forces, Craig	2005
Link	Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Second Edition	Hutchinson, Allan C.	2006
Link	Legal Research and Writing, Second Edition	Tjaden, Ted	2004
Link	Legal Research and Writing, Third Edition	Tjaden, Ted	2010
Link	Litigating Conspiracy: An Analysis of Competition Class Actions	Pitel, Stephen G.A.	2006
Link	Making Equality Rights Real: Securing Substantive Equality under the Charter	Faraday, Fay	2006
Link	Managing a Legal and Ethical Social Work Practice	Samuels, Marilyn	2003
Link	Maritime Law	Gold, Edgar	2004
Link	Media Law, Second Edition	Martin, Robert	2003
Link	Mental Disorder and the Law: A Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals	Bloom, Hy	2006
Link	Mental Health Courts: Decriminalizing the Mentally Ill	Schneider, Richard D.	2007
Link	Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Changes of Corporate Control, Second Edition	Nicholls, Christopher C.	2012
Link	Mergers, Aquisitions, and Other Changes of Corporate Control	Nicholls, Christopher C.	2007
Link	Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime	Hubbard, Robert	2004
Link	Métis-Crown Relations: Rights, Identity, Jurisdiction, and Governance	Wilson, Frederica	2008
Link	National Security Law: Canadian Practice in International Perspective	Forcese, Craig	2007
Link	Ontario Public Service Employment and Labour Law	Hadwen, Timothy	2005
Link	Pension Law	Kaplan, Ari	2006
Link	Personal Property Security Law, Second Edition	Cuming, Ronald C.C.; Walsh, Catherine & Wood, Roderick J.	2012
Link	Personal Property Security Law	Cuming, Ronald C.C.	2005
Link	Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context	Tucker, Eric; Muir, James & Ziff, Bruce	2012
Link	Public International Law	Currie, John H.	2001
Link	Public International Law, Second Edition	Currie, John H.	2008
Link	Refugee Law	Jones, Martin	2007
Link	Religious Institutions and the Law in Canada	Ogilvie, M.H.	2010
Link	Religious Institutions and the Law in Canada, Second Edition	Ogilvie, M.H.	2003
Link	Remedies: The Law of Damages	Cassels, Jamie	2000
Link	Remedies: The Law of Damages, Second Edition	Cassels, Jamie	2008
Link	Representing Victims of Sexual and Spousal Abuse	DesRosiers, Nathalie	2002
Link	Securities Law	MacIntosh, Jeffrey G.	2002
Link	Speaking Freely: Expression and the Law in the Commonwealth	Martin, Robert	1999
Link	Statutory Interpretation, Second Edition	Sullivan, Ruth	2007
Link	The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue	Roach, Kent	2001
Link	Tax Avoidance in Canada After Canada Trustco and Mathew	Duff, David G.	2007
Link	Taxation and Valuation of Technology: Theory, Practice, and the Law	Horvath, James L.	2008
Link	Theory of Class Actions	Jones, Craig	2003
Link	Tough Choices: Living and Dying in the Twenty-First Century	McTeer, Maureen	1999
Link	Trauma, Trials, and Transformation: Guiding Sexual Assault Victims through the Legal System and Beyond	Daylen, Judith	2006
Link	Understanding Section 8: Search, Seizure, and the Canadian Constitution	Boucher, Susanne	2005
Link	US Manual of International Air Carriage	Holding, John D.	2009
Link	Using International Law in Canadian Courts	van Ert, Gibran	2008
Link	What’s Next for Canada? Securities Regulation After the Reference	Anand, Anita	2012
Link	Why Good Lawyers Matter	Blaikie, David L.	2012
Link	Wigmore on Alcohol	Wigmore, James G.	2011
Link	Youth Criminal Justice Law	Bala, Nicholas	2002
Link	Youth Criminal Justice Law, Second Edition	Bala, Nicholas	2009

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New Books at the Law Library – May 28, 2012

May 28th, 2012 by Elim | Comments Off

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K230.H43 .A647 2012
Thom Brooks, ed., Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K486 .C73 2012a
Tom Garbett, ed., Creative Law: Selected Papers from the University of British Columbia’s 16th Annual Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Graduate Students’ Conference ([Vancouver: Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia], 2012).
Online access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/41159

LAW LIBRARY level 3: 243.A4198 U5 2012
Marsha A. Freeman, Christine Chinkin & Beate Rudolf, eds., The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: A Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KZ1250 .R44 2012
Margaret A. Young, ed., Regime Interaction in International Law: Facing Fragmentation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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New Books at the Law Library – May 22, 2012

May 22nd, 2012 by Elim | Comments Off

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K236 .B47 2012
Paul Schiff Berman, Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K3165 .C576 2012
Tom Ginsburg, Comparative Constitutional Design (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K3240 .K47 2012
Alison Kesby, The Right to Have Rights: Citizenship, Humanity, and International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K3240 .M353 2012
Jody Heymann & Adèle Cassola, eds., Making Equal Rights Real: Taking Effective Action to Overcome Global Challenges (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K3260.3 .T64 2012
John Tobin, The Right to Health in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K3274 .W55 2012
Daniel Wilsher, Immigration Detention. Law, History, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K3830 .E96 2011
Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds., Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: 725 .D78 2012
Mark A. Drumbl, Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K5015.4 .S775 2011
R.A. Duff et al., eds., The Structures of the Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KD3989 .L49 2012
Peter Leyland, The Constitution of the United Kingdom: A Contextual Analysis, 2d ed. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KD7876 .G76 2012
Hyman Gross, Crime and Punishment; A Concise Moral Critique (Oxford:: Oxford University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KD7964 .P83 2011
Homicide Review Advisory Group, Public Opinion and the Penalty for Murder: Report of the Homicide Review Advisory Group on the Mandatory Sentence of Life Imprisonment for Murder (Hook: Waterside Press, 2011).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE427.A76 R48 2012
François Tanguay-Renaud & James Stribopoulos, eds., Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law (Oxford: Hart Pub., 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: 79 .H86 2012
Dan Hunter, Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Intellectual Property (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KJE2449 .G38 2011
Alexandra Gatto, Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights: Obligations under EU Law and International Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KJE6497 .A956 2012
Pınar Akman, The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economic Approaches (Oxford: Hart, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KK5470 .H69 2011
Hŏ, Wan-jung, Togil t’ongil kwa Yŏnbang Hŏnpŏp Chaep’anso ŭi yŏkhwal
(Sŏul: Hŏnpŏp Chap’anso, 2011).
(서울 : 헌법 재판소, 2011).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KZ6368 .O55 2011
Keiichiro Okimoto, The Distinction and Relationship between Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello (Oxford: Hart, 2011).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KZ6405.M47 .M85 2012
hristine Bakker & Mirko Sossai, eds., Multilevel Regulation of Military and Security Contractors: The Interplay Between International, European and Domestic Norms (Oxford: Hart Pub., 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KZ7180 .A92 2012
Payam Akhavan, Reducing Genocide to Law. Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KZ7312 .O43 2012
Héctor Olásolo, Essays on International Criminal Justice (Oxford: Hart Pub., 2012).

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