LibGuides: Women & Gender Studies: Legal Info Resources

Legal information resources for WGST

Hi! This page highlights some of the legal information resources you may find useful in WGST. Please also see our main LibGuide for Legal Resources here.

The CanLII database will often be your first (and possibly last) stop for Canadian legal cases, legislation, and commentary. Best of all - it is FREE!

Pay special attention to the 3 different search boxes in CanLII and plan your search accordingly.
Need help searching in CanLII? Not sure which box to use? No problem! See their help page.

SEARCHING FOR LEGAL INFO

How to find legal cases by name: This excellent LibGuide from SFU teaches you how to read a legal citation and provides an example of searching in CanLII by case name (please note that we do not have subscriptions to some of the other resources SFU highlights). It also explains "noting up" a case so you can see similar cases.

Finding legal cases by topic: This one teaches you how to search in CanLII using keyword searches for different topics. Again, we do not have access to all of the resources they do. To see if we have a particular database other than CanLII, go to the A to Z listing.

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HeinOnline
HeinOnline Canada is a fully-searchable, image-based government document and legal research database with a focus on the Canadian context. Also includes many U.S. resources.
Maclean's Magazine Archive [via EBSCOhost]
Full-text access to Maclean's from 1905 to 2015 featuring cover-to-cover scans of the originally published content. Includes popular news coverage of Canadian legal cases and legislation.

WorldLII (legal information institute) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility. This database includes content from following Legal Information Institutes: AustLII; BAILII; CanLII; HKLII; LII (Cornell); and PacLII.

Be sure to take a look at Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library's legal resources LibGuides.

Looking for Treaty Information? See UBC's LibGuide!

BearPaw Full-Length Legal Education Videos - "We produce and distribute free multimedia resources about the law for Indigenous People, made by Indigenous People, in Alberta."