New Books – Spring 2025

Here’s a selection of new and noteworthy additions to our print collection over the last few months:

The Modern Lawyer : ethics and technology in an evolving world / Megan Zavieh.
Stacks 1st Floor; KF 300 Z38 2021

Published by the American Bar Association, this text contains guidelines on topics from ethics to office management, changes in payment technologies, managing client expectations, and gaining competence in new practice areas. It contains a plethora of helpful information and aims to prepare legal professionals for lawyering in today’s world and tomorrow’s.

The people’s champion : trial by jury / Michael Johnston
Practice Collection -2nd Floor; KF 8972 J65 2024

The People’s Champion: Trial by Jury provides information about all aspects of trial by jury, spanning more than 30 chapters. This book includes a brief history, as well as information on elections, eligibility, pre-trial motions, jury selection issues, constitutional considerations, opening and closing addresses, deliberations, jury nullification, mistrials, and even sentencing following a jury’s verdict.

Trusts in Common-Law Canada / Dennis Pavlich
Practice Collection -2nd Floor; KF 730 P39 2024

Written for both novices and veterans, this book introduces readers to the foundations of trust law and provides an up-to-date exposition and analysis of the legislation and case law that have shaped the Canadian trust landscape. New in the 4th edition:

• Expanded description of the conceptualized constructive trust as a recent contribution of Canadian courts
• Unique explanation of the doctrinal dynamics of the trust, as seen through the lens of the common law and equity courts, respectively
• Balanced consideration of the role of trusts and examples of use in commercial, social and cultural undertakings, including polyamorous relationships
• Adaptations by provinces of the Uniform Trustee Act
• Attention to the selection, presentation and discussion of cases that contain differentiated, standard clauses in trust settlements
• An improved, informed account of vested and contingent equitable future interests and their place in trust law, including the role of the rule against perpetuities in various provinces
• Improvements in detailing the significance of tax considerations in explaining the use of the Canadian trust.

Professor Sankoff’s guide to Canadian animal protection law / Peter Sankoff
Practice Collection -2nd Floor ; KF 3841 S26 2024

In this new text, Professor Sankoff conducts an in-depth review of the federal law governing animal protection, focusing particularly on the Criminal Code’s animal cruelty provisions and the federal regulations governing the transport and slaughter of animals. Throughout, Professor Sankoff explains how the laws (especially the Health of Animals Act and the Safe Food for Canadians Act) have been applied, and analyzes shortcomings in their interpretation. He provides useful insight for those tasked with prosecuting, defending or adjudging on these offences. Whether you want to learn more about Canada’s animal protection laws, or better understand the nuances of the animal welfare landscape, this book is an essential resource.

Contracts for the family law client / Robert M. Halpern
Practice Collection -2nd Floor; KF 505 .ZA2 C662 2024

Contracts for the Family Law Client begins by discussing the law of contract in Canada generally, then enumerating the different types of family law contracts. The book further explores the topics of negotiation, mediation, arbitration and the various alternative dispute resolution contracts used to lead parties to “Coming Together” and “Coming Apart” agreements. It also examines the practical considerations when seeking to enforce or challenge a contract, including advice about the Family Responsibility Office, the Family Law Rules, bifurcation in set aside cases, and limitation periods. Also included are helpful precedents, practice tips, appendices and sample documents.

For the encouragement of learning : the origins of Canadian copyright law / Myra Tawfik
Stacks -1st Floor; KF 2995 T39 2023

For the Encouragement of Learning addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada’s earliest copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright’s normative purpose.

Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the mass production of educational material. The book reveals that copyright laws were integral features of British North American education policy and highlights the important roles played by teachers, education reformers, and politicians in the emergence and development of the laws. It also explains how policy-makers began to consider the relationship between copyright and cultural identity formation once British interference into domestic copyright affairs increased, and as Canadian Confederation neared. Using methodologies at the intersection of legal history and book history, For the Encouragement of Learning embeds the legal framework of copyright within the history of Canada’s book and print culture.

*Descriptions taken or summarized from: publisher websites, table of contents and book prefaces.