New Books – Summer 2026

Read on for a summary of new and noteworthy additions to our print collection over the last few months:

Intervening in Canadian Courts / Claire Kane Boychuk
Practice Collection; KF 8895 B69 2025

Intervening in Canadian Courts is a procedural guide for practitioners, offering the first national, comparative perspective on third-party intervention before the various levels of court in Canada. This text combines theoretical foundations with step-by-step guidance, making it an excellent resource for practitioners needing a deep understanding of interventions across all provinces and territories, on critical thematic issues such as discrimination, reconciliation, government interveners, labour interventions, and public interest intervention in criminal proceedings. Where competing interpretations of a procedural rule arise, readers of this book can review how courts in other provinces or territories have approached the same principle.

Canada & The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Thomas Isaac and Grace Wu
Practice Collection; KF 8210 .C5 I885 2025

This text offers a commentary on Canada’s relationship with the UNDRIP. It traces this relationship from the UN’s development of the UNDRIP, through Canada’s evolution of its position on the UNDRIP over time, to Canada’s current and ongoing efforts to implement the UNDRIP’s standards.

The book seeks to provide practitioners, scholars, and others who operate in the field of Aboriginal law with guidance on Canada’s constitutional framework for Indigenous rights, the UNDRIP, and how these regimes interact with each other, including the uncertainties that remain in this rapidly developing area of Aboriginal law.

The law of police accountability in Canada / Jason Tree
Practice Collection ; KF 4695 T74 2025

The Law of Police Accountability in Canada offers an overview of police accountability in Canada, examining the law governing police conduct and the mechanisms available to hold police officers accountable across Canadian jurisdictions.

This practical resource aims to help lawyers, police agencies, oversight bodies and community stakeholders understand the varied and complex police accountability mechanisms in Canada across criminal law, tort law and administrative law.

The legal compliance handbook to artificial intelligence / Imran Ahmad
Practice Collection; KF 390.5 .C6 A76 2026

The Legal Compliance Handbook to Artificial Intelligence translates the complex technical realities of machine learning, generative AI, and automated decision-making into actionable governance frameworks, diligence questions, and drafting approaches that withstand regulatory scrutiny and litigation. This handbook surveys the evolving legal landscapes of Canada, the United States, and the European Union, and provides practical checklists and sample language that practitioners can adapt to their own transactions.

Litigating family violence : a practitioner’s handbook / Ashish Joshi
Practice Collection; KF 9322 J67 2026

Published by the ABA Litigation Section, Litigating Family Violence: A Practitioner’s Handbook provides practical, trauma-informed, and legally rigorous guidance for navigating high-stakes family violence cases, equipping practitioners with strategies for addressing coercive control, presenting and challenging evidence, and centering child safety, credibility, and the best interests of children in litigation.

Visual literacy for lawyers : a guide to enhancing your contracts and practice / Olga V. Mack, Linsey Kristina Krolik, and Tessa Manuello
Reference Collection; K 120 M33 2026

Visual Literacy for Lawyers demonstrates how visual communication can strengthen legal analysis, advocacy, and client understanding. This guide uses practical examples and step-by-step guidance to show lawyers how to integrate visuals into everyday practice to communicate more clearly. What sets this book apart is its practicality. Across its pages, readers will find clear, side-by-side demonstrations of how dense legal text and structurally complex agreements can be transformed through visual and structural clarity.

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