LAW Graduate Law (LLM) Resources

This guide is intended to provide relevant information to graduate and post-graduate law programs, including resources from the Law 703 Library Sessions.

Information About the LLM Guide

This guide is designed to make available information on library resources to graduate law students, including in-class library sessions for Law 703 as well as remind you of where to go for legal and interdisciplinary research assistance. Should you need any further assistance with your research please don't hesistate to call or e-mail me.

Finding Books

To find a book or journal in the library use the Library Search link below. If you have an specific title or author select "Advanced Search" to use the specific field (author, title or journal title).

Library Search Box

Government of Canada Publications (formerly E-Collection)
A collection of Government of Canada electronic publications.

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Formerly Depository Services Program, the Government of Canada Publications (formerly E-collection) includes over 120,000 freely accessible titles. Currently, about 500-600 titles are added every month. These publications are produced by departments and agencies across the Government of Canada.

Canadian Electronic Library
- Access to: Books on Subscription, Public Documents, and Irwin Law Collection. Best viewed with Google Chrome
Canadian Electronic Library offers full-text ebooks and public documents from Canadian scholarly and independent publishers covering a wide range of disciplines. Content was previously available on the ebrary/ProQuest platform is now available exclusively on the desLibris platform.
Ebook central
- Access to subscribed content only. Personal account must be created to access some features
Ebooks are offered from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools, such as Bookshelf. Titles from the former ebrary Academic Complete collection are included.
OECD iLibrary

The OECD iLibrary, the new platform giving seamless and comprehensive access to statistical data, books, journals and working papers, is now available. It replaces SourceOECD... OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998.

Canadian Encyclopedic Digest
Electronic access available through WestlawNext Canada. Available in print in the Reference area at KE 173 .C54.

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In print, start with the Key volume, which includes a Research Guide and Index.
Halsbury's laws of Canada
Electronic access available through Lexis Advance Quicklaw (law students only). Available in print in the Special Collections room at KF385 .ZA2 H35.

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Over 20 practice areas.

Faculty of Law

Specific information about the LLM program can be found through the Graduate Studies portion of the Faculty of Law's website.

Copies of University of Calgary graduate theses from the Faculty of Law can be found through the library catalogue.

U of C Libraries

You will find the Bennett Jones Law Library website to be useful for your general legal research needs. Other libraries may be useful for your interdisciplinary research.