[{"titre":"Revised First Edition of the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide Now Available","url":"https://www.callacbd.ca/CALL-Blog/13521958","pubDate":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:55:55 +0100","description":"A revised first edition of the Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) Citation Guide/Guide canadien de la référence juridique en accès libre (RJAL) is now available.  The guide’s editors have incorporated reader feedback and corrections into a revised edition. Some of the changes include moving the general rules to their own section and revising rules on citing regularly updated books, regulations, administrative decisions, and generative AI for greater clarity and increased consistency across the guide. Additions to the guide include guidance on creating a bibliography/table of authorities and on citing reports, dissertations, municipal by-laws, court materials, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit - Crown Treaties, amongst other sources. A more detailed list is in the guide’s introduction. Since the publication of the guide in June 2024, the editors have led multiple online training sessions and conference workshops. We are now working on training materials that reflect the revised edition. The francophone editors continue to work on the French version of the guide, with the aim to publish it in 2026. Once the French version is published, we will be able to better focus our efforts to have the courts, tribunals, and the government adopt the guide and to add the guide to citation management tools. Reaction to the guide has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact, the guide was a recipient of a Clawbie for Best Legal Papers, Reports, or eBooks of 2024 and the CALL/ACBD Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing . The guide’s editors remain committed to feedback and encourage users to get in touch at coal.rjal@ubc.ca","id":3241524,"source":"Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit CALL/ACBD Blog"},{"pubDate":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:55:46 +0100","titre":"Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization Committee Events on Truth and Reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples","url":"https://www.callacbd.ca/CALL-Blog/11129241","source":"Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit CALL/ACBD Blog","id":3241451,"description":"September 30 has been a significant date in Canada since 2013, when Phyllis Webstad from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation shared her story of attending St. Joseph’s Residential School in Williams Lake, BC, for the first time in 1973. As a youngster , she proudly wore her shiny new orange shirt, only to have it taken from her by the school. Since then, Orange Shirt Day has been a national movement in Canada where people across the country wear orange in honour of Phyllis and other residential school survivors, so that we both recognize and raise awareness of the history and legacies of the Canadian residential school system. This year’s Orange Shirt Day, September 30, 2021, is also the inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. As part of its mandate, the Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization Committee (DIDC) of CALL/ACBD is committed to fostering awareness and acumen in respect of issues of diversity, inclusion, and decolonization within all sectors of law librarianship and related professions. Truth and Reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples is a national movement that is not only limited to one day, but is an ongoing effort so that Indigenous Peoples and their rights are recognized, understood and respected by all . In this spirit, the DIDC, as part of CALL/ACBD, would like to highlight a couple of upcoming opportunities available to all of us to bring together our colleagues in order to honour survivors, their families and communities, and to sadly remember those who didn’t make it home: On Thursday, September 30 , the University of Windsor Law Library will be hosting WAAYDANAA | Now is the Time . The event will be held virtually and is free. Registration is required . Nadine Hoffman, in coordination with the Academic SIG and the DIDC, is planning a related event on strategies for aspects of Indigenous research to help us better understand legal research in relation to Indigenous Peoples. Stay tuned – format and details to"},{"pubDate":"Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:11:35 +0200","url":"https://hdl.handle.net/1866/46747","titre":"La surreprésentation carcérale des Inuit au Québec : regards et expertises inuit","source":"Faculté de droit Travaux récents","id":3217997,"description":"dc.contributor.author: Gagnon-Barbin, Léonie dc.date.issued: 2026-10 dc.description.abstract: La présente recherche examine la manière dont des experts inuit comprennent et expliquent la surreprésentation carcérale marquée des Inuit au Québec. Elle s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux argumentaires qu’ils construisent, aux savoirs qu’ils mobilisent ainsi qu’aux variations de leurs perspectives selon leurs parcours et leurs positions professionnelles. Sept experts inuit provenant des milieux communautaire, politique, judiciaire, académique et correctionnel ont été rencontrés dans le cadre d’entretiens qualitatifs semi-directifs. L’analyse des entretiens fait ressortir deux grands registres explicatifs. Le premier situe la surreprésentation dans les transformations liées au colonialisme et dans les réalités sociales, familiales et communautaires contemporaines du Nunavik qui leur sont associées. Le second porte sur le fonctionnement des institutions policières, judiciaires et correctionnelles et sur leur rôle dans les trajectoires de judiciarisation et d’incarcération des Inuit. Les experts mobilisent également des conceptions, des pratiques et des savoirs inuit pour mettre en évidence certaines limites des prises en charge institutionnelles. Les résultats montrent qu’une spécificité inuit ressort clairement des argumentaires des experts, sans que celle-ci repose principalement sur une comparaison avec les autres nations autochtones. Malgré la diversité de leurs parcours, les experts proposent des explications largement convergentes et développent une vision d’ensemble de la surreprésentation, dans laquelle les dimensions historiques, sociales et institutionnelles sont étroitement liées. Enfin, leur expertise se construit à partir d’expériences professionnelles, personnelles, familiales et communautaires étroitement imbriquées, ce qui invite à repenser les frontières de l’expertise.; This research examines how Inuit experts understand and explain the marked overrepresentation of Inuit in Quebec’s correctional system. More specifically, it focuses on the arguments they construct, the knowledge they draw on, and variations in their perspectives according to their trajectories and professional positions. Seven Inuit experts from community, political, judicial, academic, and correctional fields participated in qualitative semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the interviews reveals two main explanatory registers. The first situates overrepresentation within the transformations associated with colonialism and the contemporary social, family, and community realities of Nunavik that are linked to them. The second focuses on the functioning of police, judicial, and correctional institutions and their role in Inuit trajectories of criminal justice involvement and incarceration. The experts also draw on Inuit conceptions, practices, and knowledge to highlight certain limitations of institutional responses. The findings show that a distinct Inuit specificity clearly emerges from the experts’ arguments, without relying primarily on comparisons with other Indigenous peoples. Despite the diversity of their trajectories, the experts offer largely convergent explanations and develop an overarching view of overrepresentation in which historical, social, and institutional dimensions are closely interconnected. Finally, their expertise is built from closely intertwined professional, personal, family, and community experiences, inviting a reconsideration of the boundaries of expertise. dc.type: Thèse ou mémoire / Thesis or Dissertation etd.degree.discipline:"},{"id":3184111,"description":"Preoccupation with the ongoing armed conflict in Iran has diverted attention from the grim aftermath of Iran’s nation-wide protests that began on 28 December 2025, during which tens of thousands of protestors were killed, arrested, or disappeared. Lawyers were prevented from reaching their detained clients. Lawyers themselves were among those detained simply for trying to do their jobs. Protestors are now being tried without legal representation before courts that lack any semblance of independence or impartiality. Frequent executions are now being carried out following hasty and grossly unfair proceedings. Dissidents who flee Iran may be subjected to transnational repression in . . . [more] The post Iranian Lawyers Under Attack in Iran and Abroad appeared first on Slaw","source":"Slaw","pubDate":"Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:38 +0200","url":"https://www.slaw.ca/2026/09/28/iranian-lawyers-under-attack-in-iran-and-abroad/","titre":"Iranian Lawyers Under Attack in Iran and Abroad"}]