Civil Law Research Seminar

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Civil Law Research Seminar

• By Sharon Wang
• February 1, 2007

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• Civil law as law vs. civil law as a legal
  tradition
• Quebec Civil Law
• French Civil Law

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Types of Information

• Primary
• Statutes
• Regulations
• Official commentaries (ministre de la Justice)
• Cases (?)
• Seondary
• Books
• Journal Articles / Commentaries
• News etc.

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Information Sources

• Library Catalogue
• Literature Indices
• Databases
• Web sites

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Quebec Civil Law Primary Sources

• Quicklaw
• CanLii Statues and Regulations of Quebec
• Revised / Annual Statues and regulations of
  Quebec (English francais)
• Bills in the Assembly

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Quebec Cases

• Printed Case Reports Digests
• Quebec appeal cases
• Recueil de droit de la famille
• use law reports, digests, etc. Quebec
  (Province) as subject
• Annotated Civil Code
• Code civil du Quebec annote / Renaud Baudouin
• CanLii
• AZIMUT/SOQUIJ
• Quicklaw

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Secondary Materials -- Books
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Search for Books

• Other related subject terms (from LCSH)
• Conditions (Law) / declaration of intention /
  duress (Law) / / nullity etc. (NT)
• --international unification / --interpretation
  and construction (Subd)
• civil law systems / civil procedure / Roman law
• Browse KF 385 section in the Library
• Search catalogues from other libraries
• Worldcat

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Quebec civil law--journal articles

• ICLL Quicklaw / eCarswell
• Quicklaw filter by topic

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French Civil Law--Statues Decrees

• In Print
• French law consitution and selective
  legislation / Henry P. de Vries, Nina M. Galston
  el al.
• The French Civil Code / translated by John H.
  Crabb
• Legifrance.gouv.fr
• official gazette 1990-
• statutes and decrees 1978-

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French Civil Law--Cases

• The role of cases in civil law tradition
• No comprehensive reporting service
• trend some cases reports (commercial/ free
  web) emerged with English translation

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French Civil Law--Books

• browse the KJV 444 section in the library

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French civil law--Journal articles

• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (1985-)
• search terms
• language (?)
• LegalTrac

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French Law Research Guide

• Foreign Law current sources of codes and
  legislation in jurisdictions of the world /
  Thomas H. Reynolds Arturo A. Flores
• LLRX French Law Guide
• Globlex Research French Law
• Globlex French Law On the Internet
• WorldLii France