Even though these reports are not current they are still relevant for legal researcher. Law Reform Commission reports generally focus on a specific area of the law. They provide a comprehensive outline of the state of the law with respect to key issues and then analyse the law in that context. These reports also provide recommendations on how the law could be improved or reformed.

An advanced search for Ontario Law Reform Commission in the “Creator” field will retrieve over 100 reports on a wide variety of subjects. Subject searching of the Internet Archive is awkward. Instead, to locate Law Reform Commission reports from Ontario and other jurisdictions go to the British Columbia Law Institute’s Law Reform Database and search by keyword.  You can then return to the Internet Archive and search for a specific title.

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How to make the best use of Summon when searching for journal articles.

• Use Summon when searching for interdisciplinary as well as legal material
• Use the advanced search features to combine or limit search terms using AND/OR.
• Use field searching to search by title, subject, author, publisher, publication title, language, notes.
• Refine your search by format, from an extensive list of subject headings, by language, by date and by library location to narrow it down to the most appropriate materials.
• Use the [fulltext] link when on campus or when signed in with my.access while off campus for one click access to the full text of an article
• Read the Digital Rights information, to ensure you are complying with copyright restrictions
• Remember that resources that are only available on Westlaw or Lexis will not be indexed in Summon

Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature including articles, theses, books, abstracts in all subject areas as well as (mainly US court opinions)

• Use the advanced search features to combine  or limit search terms and to search by author, publication or date
• Material located via Google Scholar is not indexed by subject and there is no controlled vocabulary so is not easy to limit  a search to material covering a specific subject
• Use Google Scholar to find out how many times and when an article has been cited in other scholarly literature from all disciplines – this is often more comprehensive for legal articles than any other source
• Set up your preferences so that you can access the full text of articles available through U of T. Go to Google Scholar and click on the link entitled “Scholar Preferences” at the right of the Search box. Scroll down to the “Library Links” section and search for Toronto in the “Find Library” search box. Select the “Get it!” link for the U of T.   Then, when you do your searches, you will see the U of T “Get It!” link on the left hand side of the search result.  While on campus you should be taken directly to the full text of the document.  If you are off campus, you may have to login with your UTORid.

• The Advocates’ Quarterly, (v. 38, no. 3 & 4, 2011)
• Alberta Law Review, (v. 49, no. 1, 2011)
• Canadian Business Law Journal, (v. 51, no. 3, 2011)
• Canadian Intellectual Property Review, (v. 27, No. 1, 2011)
• Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, (v. 16, no. 1, 2011)
• Canadian Law Library Review,  (v. 36, no.3, 2011)
• The Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, (v. 12, no. 12, 2011)
• Industrial Relations/Relations Industrielles, (v. 66, no. 3, 2011)
• McGill Law Journal, (v. 56, no. 4, 2011)
• Refuge, (v. 27, no. 1, 2011)
• UBC Law Review, (v. 44, no. 2, 2011)

Recent Law Journal Contents: June 2011

• The Advocate’s Quarterly (v. 38, no. 2, May 2011)
• Appeal: Review of Current Law and Law Reform (CA) (v. 6, 2011)
• Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice  (v. 24, June 2011)
• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice  (v. 53, no 3, July 2011)
• Canadian Journal of Family (v. 26, 2010)
• Education and Law Journal (Volume 20, 2010)
• Health Law Review (v. 19, no. 2, 2011)
• Intellectual Property Journal
  • v. 23, no. 2, 2010
  • v. 23, no. 3, 2011
• Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law
• Ottawa Law Review  (v.41, 2011)
• Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues (v. 30, March 2011)

Recent Law Journal Contents: May 2011

• Alberta Law Review (v. 48, no. 3 2011)
• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (v. 53, no. 2, 2011)
• Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (v. 23, no. 1, 2011)
• Canadian Tax Journal (v. 23, no. 1, 2011)
• Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal (v. 30, no. 3, 2011)
• Journal of Law and Equality   (v. 7, no. 1, 2010)
• McGill Law Journal (v. 56, no. 2, 2011)
• Saskatchewan Law Review (v.74, no., 1, 2011)
• UBC Law Review
  • v. 43 (2011)
  • v. 44 (2011, Special Issue)
• University of Toronto Law Journal (v. 44, Special Issue, 2011 )