Street Art at the Construction Site

As I walk past the building site every day, I usually try to sneak a peek through the gaps in the fence to see what is happening to the building site. For a long time it seemed as if nothing was happening except a lot of mud.  But we now have a likely completion date of February 2016, as I walk past I can see that the interior of the library is being worked on and there are concrete footings being poured. Progress is definitely being made.

Today I was amused to come across this piece of street art on the otherwise surprisingly pristine hoardings around the site.

The text reads ” There are things you do because they feel right & they make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the reason we are all here: to love each other and to eat each other’s cooking & say it was good.”   I like that!!!

This is street art is from the hoarding that covers the wrought iron gateway to the faculty.

Faculty Research Assistant Job Available at the Library

Job Title:        Faculty Research Assistant (Library RA Pool)

Status:            Casual

Hours:            Up to 8 hours maximum per week during the school year

Salary:            $15/hr

Reports to:     Faculty Services Librarian

Job Description:

• On demand research assistance to faculty on short term research projects
• Research will require working with secondary legal materials, primary legal materials as well as non-legal materials to be conducted using print and online resources, in consultation with the Faculty Services Librarian
• RAs will work directly with faculty to work out the scope of the research and to communicate the results of their research. Legal analysis of the product of research may be required. RAs may also be asked to help format scholarship to ready it for publication.

Qualifications:

• Superior ability to communicate effectively in writing; attention to detail; strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Superior research skills, including knowledge of online databases and print materials. Students who have prior legal research experience or have completed the Advanced Legal Research and Writing course will be preferred.
• Ability to effectively interact with faculty; tact, initiative, good judgement and patience.
• Demonstrated judgment to handle confidential matters.

Desired Class Level(s): 2L, 3L/4L, LLM, SJD

How to apply:

Please submit cover letter, résumé, undergraduate transcripts and graduate transcripts to Sooin Kim at sooin.kim@utoronto.ca.

Requested Documents:

• Résumé
• Cover Letter
• Unofficial Transcripts

Applications Accepted Until: Monday, September 29, 2014

Online Legal Research DatabaseTraining Registration – U of T Law Students Only

Quicklaw/LexisNexis and WestlawNext Canada are both comprehensive online legal research databases. Both contain primary legal material (cases and legislation) as well as legal commentary or secondary material (texts, encyclopedias, journal articles and other commentary). Both are valuable resources to which all law students have free access. One way to maximize the value of these resources to your research is to become familiar with the use and navigation of these huge databases. To that end, the library has organized lunchtime training sessions in both databases for law students.

Please register for these sessions using the links below.

• Quicklaw Training: October 10      12:30-2:00

  http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/quicklaw-training-tickets-13135499633

• QuickLaw Training: September 26^th 12:30-2:00

  http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/quicklaw-training-tickets-13135437447

• WestlawNext Training: October 17^th 12:30-2:00

  http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/westlawnext-training-tickets-13135254901

• WestlawNext Training: October 3^rd   12:30-2:00

  http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/westlawnext-training-tickets-8590346959

Recent Table of Contents – August 2014

• The Advocate’s Quarterly – Volume 43 no. 1 (July 2014)
• Canadian Intellectual Property Review/Revue canadienne de propriété intellectuelle – Volume 30 no. 1 (June 2014)
• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale – Volume 56 no. 4 (July 2014)
• Canadian Journal of Law & Society/Revue canadienne droit et société – Volume 29 no. 2 (2014)
• Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques – Volume 40 no. 2 (June 2014)
• Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscal canadienne – Volume 62 no. 2 (2014)
• Estates Trusts & Pensions Journal – Volume 33 no. 4 (August 2014)
• The Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy– Volume 15 no. 2 (2014)
• Intellectual Property Journal/Revue de propriété intellectuelle– Volume 26 no. 2 (July 2014)
• Ottawa Law Review/Revue de droit d’Ottawa– Volume 44 no. 2 (2012/2013)
• Saskatchewan Law Review – Volume 77 no. 2 (2014)
• University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review/Revue de droit de l’Université de Toronto – Volume 72 no. 2 (Spring 2014)

Recent Table of Contents – June-July 2014

• Alberta Law Review– Volume 51 no. 3 (March 2014)
• Canadian Business Law Journal – Volume 55 no. 2 (June 2014)
• Canadian Criminal Law Review/Revue canadienne de droit pénal – Volume 18 no. 2 (June 2014)
• Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice/Revue canadienne de droit administratif et de pratique – Volume 27 no. 2 (June 2014)
• Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada – Volume 57 no. 2 (June 2014)
• The Criminal Law Quarterly – Volume 61 no. 1 (June 2014)
• Estates Trusts & Pensions Journal– Volume 33 no. 3 (May 2014)
• Health Law Review – Volume 21 no. 2 (2013)
• Health Law Review – Volume 21 no. 3 (2013)
• McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy/Revue international de droit et politique du développement durable de McGill– Volume 10 no. 1 (2014)
• McGill Law Journal/Revue de droit de McGill – Volume 59 no. 3 (March 2014)
• The Philanthropist /La philanthrope – Volume 26 no. 1 (2014)
• Queen’s Law Journal– Volume 39 no. 2 (Spring 2014)
• Relations industrielles/Industrial relations– Volume 69 no. 2 (Spring 2014)