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IN TODAY'S POST INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING WILL BE COMMUNICATED:

Human Rights Day 

-     Event @ UJ Library 18 March 2013: Guest speaker Adv George Bizos

            -     Human Rights Day display in the Law Library

            -     Books by Adv Bizos

-        Recent Human Rights books in the Law Library 

Law Library

           -          Legal Databases news:

o   LexisNexis

o   Jutastat

  

Legal Conferences for 2013

UJ Library

          -          New Databases

          -          Wireless Internet Access in the Library

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Human Rights Day Event @ UJ Library: 
On 18 March the veteran Human Rights Lawyer, George Bizos, will deliver an open lecture at 17:30 in the Library Auditorium.

In recognition of Human Rights Day and the contribution of Adv Bizos to the struggle for Human Rights in South Africa, there is a display in the law library:

• Books authored by Adv Bizos available on level 6:

No one to blame? : in pursuit of justice in South Africa
HPD BIZO 

Odyssey to freedom : a memoir 
R7 BIZO

• Read more about Adv Bizos:

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/interviews/bizos.html
• http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/honours/degrees/George_Bizos.pdf
• http://docfilmsa.com/perspective/here-be-dragons/
• http://mg.co.za/tag/george-bizos

• Books in the UJ Law Library on Human Rights:

A glimpse of recent books (all published in 2011 or 2012)
Shelf codes provided:

Law Library

       -          Legal Databases news:

                          LexisNexis 


LexisNexis is currently available only on the Internet, which means that staff and students will be able to access it from any computer with Internet access as well as from home.  Please ensure that you have a valid PIN in order to access the database.

             Jutastat

Jutastat is still available on the Intranet (on campus), but is also (with fewer user licenses and titles) available on the Internet.  It therefore can also be accessed from home with a valid PIN.

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    -       Legal Conferences for 2013

Wanting to plan for the year ahead? Academic Legal Conferences Worldwide for 2013

    

UJ Library

      -          New Databases

UJ Staff and Students now have online access to two extensive resources with South African and International newspapers: Access World News and PressDisplay

o   Access World News

A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe dating back to 1800. This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.

o   PressDisplay

Access current local & international online newspapers including Sowetan, Saturday Star, Die Burger, Sunday times, & many more!!! PressDisplay is the most convenient and complete way to read all your favourite newspapers and magazines on one site. With Library PressDisplay users gain access to publications from within the library, from home and around the world on the day they are published.

      -          Wireless Internet Access in the Library

o   Wireless internet access in the Library

How to set up your laptop for wireless internet access in the library.... 

  

UPDATE 24 October 2012

This week is Open Access week at UJ and is also therefore the theme of this week's blog.

Open Access Week is a global event taking place between October 22 and 28.  The event is now in its 6^th year and strives to promote open access as a new norm in scholarship and research.  This year’s theme is “Set the default to Open Access”. In previous blogs the issue of open access was already addressed (see tags on open access)

IN TODAY'S POST INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING WILL BE COMMUNICATED:

· Open Access Week activities at UJ

· More on Open Access in general

o    Blogs

o    Conferences

o    News

· Open Access in a legal context

o    Articles

o    Journals

· Open Access articles on databases at UJ

o    Academic OneFIle

o    EbscoHost MultiDisciplinary Database

o    ScienceDirect

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Most South African Universities take part in the celebration of Open Access week through a variety of activities.  

• Open Access Week activities at UJ 

Open Access UJ Team

UJ Institutional Repository Services

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 More on Open Access in general

o    Blogs

• Open Access Week
• EIFL Knowledge without Boundaries
• The Guardian blog 

  
  

o    Conferences

• Berlin 10 Open Access Conference: Stellenbosch University, 7 - 8 November 2012

o    News

(As provided on BUALENNA Listserv)

• Celebrate Open Access Week (22-28 October 2012)

http://www.openaccessweek.org/

• Open Access (Peter Suber)

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book)

• California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/california-universities-to-produce-50-open-source-textbooks/

• Open Access Africa 2012

http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-access-africa-2012

• Stevan Harnad: How & why the RCUK Open Access Policy needs to be revised

http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/stevan-harnad-how-why-the-rcuk-open-access-policy-needs-to-be

• Good practices for University Open Access Policies

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open-access_policies

• The LERU Roadmap Towards Open Access

http://www.leru.org/files/publications/LERU_AP8_Open_Access.pdf

• Why Publish in Humanities Directory?

http://www.humanitiesdirectory.com/index.php/humanitiesdirectory/pages/view/authors_why

• International Relations Program to release open-access research

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/international-relations-program-to-release-open-access-research-1.2779187

• Images in the Public Domain

http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/

• Research Intelligence : Unbound Possibilities

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=421432

• “Snippet view” in Google Books is not open access

http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/snippet-view-in-google-books-is-not-open-access/

• Open Access Week Preview 2012

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Open-Access-Week-Preview-85557.asp

• Open Access Videos and other Resources to help you celebrate Open Access Week (21-28 October 2012).

http://www.scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/node/47

• European Commission Open Access Policy Officer to speak at R2RC European Open Access Week Webcast

http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/european-commission-open-access-policy-officer-to-.shtml

• Open Access and the “Fair Dealing” Button

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268511/

• Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers

Is there a Gini co-efficient on Open Access and how Beautiful is That?

http://infokelele.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/is-there-a-gini-co-efficient-on-open-access-and-how-beautiful-is-that/

• List of Open Licensed Cartoons

http://education-copyright.org/list-of-open-licensed-cartoons/

• Royalty-Free Cartoons

http://www.sangrea.net/free-cartoons/

• Free Cartoons for Embedding in Websites/Blogs

http://www.andertoons.com/free-cartoons/

• Response to Criticism of Repository Route to Open Access

http://www.friendofopenaccess.org.uk/index.php/response-to-criticism-of-repository-route-to-oa

• Open Access in UK: Reinventing the Big Deal

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/open-access-in-uk-reinventing-big-deal.html

• A Plea for Open Science in Medicine

http://www.forbes.com/sites/harlankrumholz/2012/10/04/a-plea-for-open-science-in-medicine/

• Public access and development - The impact of public access venues and the benefits of libraries

https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/20918/Global%20Impact%20Study%20brief%201.pdf?sequence=1

• Making Open Access work in the Social Sciences

http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&context=charleston

• Research matters: Students will reap the benefits of new thinking on access to valuable research materials

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/postgraduate-study/research-matters-students-will-reap-the-benefits-of-new-thinking-on-access-to-valuable-research-materials-8167978.html

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o    Open Access in a legal context

Journals

• De Jure (Published by the University of Pretoria)

"De Jure is a general law journal, accredited by the Department of Education.

It publishes original research concerned with the development and dissemination of cutting-edge legal research, both national and international. The scope of the journal is wide and supports legal academics, practitioners and scholars." 

• DOAJ list for law and political science

"DOAJ is the Directory of Open Access Journals, a project which aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The Law section provides basic information on and links to about 155 legal journals from jurisdictions worldwide."

• Duke Law Journal (Open Access)

"The Duke Law Journal is among the few leading legal journals that make the full content of all articles published in the Journal available free"

• Open Access Law journals list compiled by CreativeCommons

"Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools." 

• Oxford journals (open access law journals)

"The Journal of Legal Analysis, founded in 2009, is a fully open access peer-reviewed general journal on all aspects of law, based at Harvard Law School.  Links to other open access journals also provided here."

• Sabinet Open Access Journals list 

"The collection currently comprises 46 South African journals, which may be searched individually, and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles. Of the journals in the collection, 15 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or the IBSS list. New journal titles and issues are added to the collection on an ongoing basis."

Articles (from Google Scholar, but some articles also available on databases UJ subscribes to)

• Download It While It's Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship

LB Solum - Lewis & Clark L. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
Pdf article

"This Article analyzes the shift of legal scholarship from the old world of law reviews to today's
world of peer reviews to tomorrow's world of open access legal blogs. This shift is occurring
in three dimensions. First, legal scholarship is moving from the long form (treatises and ..."

• The economics of open access law publishing 

  J Litman - Lewis & Clark Law Review, 2006 - works.bepress.com
  Pdf article
  
  
  
  Abstract "The conventional model of scholarly publishing uses the copyright system as a
  lever to induce commercial publishers and printers to disseminate the results of scholarly
  research. The role of copyright in the dissemination of scholarly research is in many ways ...
  
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o    Open Access articles (selection) available on UJ databases 

• Academic OneFile

• EbscoHost

• ScienceDirect

UPDATE 28 September 2012

Painting by Mike Adibe
Title: Unity and Diversity
Bishop Smith Catholic High School
Pembroke, Ontario


This week is DIVERSITY week at UJ and is also therefore the theme of this week's blog.

"No culture in South Africa was pristine and no language was unaffected by the melting pot of the country's history, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Heritage Day, calling on South Africans to unite in their diversity to build a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights."

 

IN TODAY'S POST INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING WILL BE COMMUNICATED:

· Fellowship in legal pluralism available at McGill University

 

· Law Library exhibition on diversity 

 

 

 

· New book titles dealing with Diverity in a legal context

 

  

• In the UJ catalogue
• Not in the UJ catalogue

 

 

· News Reports (South African and International) dealing with legal diversity 

 

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Fellowship in legal pluralism available at McGill University

 

McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism Fellow in Residence Programme

The Centre invites applications to the O’Brien Fellows in Residence Program from a diverse pool of applicants such as journalists, activists, academics and practitioners in the field of human rights

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Law Library exhibition on diversity

Come and view our exhibition on legal diversity in the law library to see some of the many interesting books we have in this area of law

 

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New book titles dealing with Diverity in a legal context

• In the UJ catalogue

     Legal traditions of the world : sustainable diversity in law
Glenn, H. Patrick.
Oxford ; Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 2010. RCB GLEN

  The culture of judicial independence : conceptual foundations and practical challenges
Leiden : M. Nijhoff, 2012. RJB SHET

  Marriage and divorce in a multicultural context : multi-tiered marriage and the boundaries of civil 
Cambridge ; Cape Town : Cambridge University Press, 2012. REB NICH 

  Islamic law in Europe? : legal pluralism and its limits in European family laws
Büchler, Andrea.
Farnham : Ashgate, c2011. REB BUCH

        Cultural diversity and the law : state responses from around the world
         Bruxelles : Bruylant, 2010. RKD FOBL

Political participation of minorities : a commentary on international standards and practice
Oxford ; Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 2010. RKD WELL

           Muslim marriage in Western courts : lost in transplantation
         Fournier, Pascale.
         Farnham : Ashgate, c2010. RGES FOUR

 

• Not in the UJ catalogue

 

 

 The UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
A Tale of Fragmentation in International Law

Author(s):  

Toshiyuki Kono (ed.), Steven Van Uytsel (ed.)

International Law
Volume 9
book | published | 1st print
September, 2012 | ISBN 978-9-40000-003-2 | xx + 478 pp. | hardback

 

Ashgate cultural diversity in law series

Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law

Derya Bayir; £65.00 Published January 2013; Hardback; ISBN 978-1-4094-2007-1

 

 

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Legal Reform and Business Contracts in Developing Economies

Julie Paquin, University of Ottawa, Canada; £60.00 » Published December 2012; Hardback; ISBN 978-1-4094-4488-6

 

 

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Judging in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian Legal Traditions

Janos Jany, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary; £65.00 » Published June 2012; Hardback; ISBN 978-1-4094-3716-1

 

 

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News Reports (International and South African) dealing with legal diversity

 

 International

• ABA asked to make diversity every lawyer's responsibility

The National Law Journal-8 hours ago

Is promoting diversity and inclusion within the legal profession an ethical responsibility for all lawyers? At least one advocacy group believes ...

•      Survey To Inventory Legal Profession's Success In Achieving ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

•      Model Rules Could Encourage Lawyers To Make Diversity A ... Sacramento Bee

·        Diversity calls for 'more facilitative' laws

TODAYonline-17 Sep 2012

I read with interest the letter "Law not proxy for morality, but it can shape moral opinion" (Sept 14), particularly the suggestions regarding the

·        Vail Daily column: Diversity jurisdiction in federal court

Vail Daily News-18 Sep 2012

Diversity in law has not a whit to do with peaceful co-existence. Nor does it bear upon racial or ethnic distribution among the judiciary. It has not ...

·        High-tech, science grads favored in visa proposals for immigrants

Washington Times-18 Sep 2012

The diversity lottery, implemented in a 1990 law, doesn't really fit any of those categories, said Madeleine Sumption, senior policy analyst at the ...

·        UT schools receive high rankings for Hispanic enrollment

UT The Daily Texan-18 Sep 2012

The UT schools of business and law have developed a streak for enrolling ... which ranks schools on their diversity practices based on Hispanic ...

·        UK among worst in Europe for employing female judges

The Guardian-10 hours ago

The United Kingdom's record of slowly improving judicial diversity has ... of the average amount of legal aid allocated per case, €3,551, in 2010.

·        The Role of Faculty Hiring in Law School Change

Huffington Post-12 hours ago

Or, for a case of change in culture, a law school might hire faculty members to promote a culture that better sustains racial and ethnic diversity, ...

 

·        Everything's Bigger in Texas — Including the Lack of Diversity in ...

Above the Law-12 Sep 2012

The “2012 Law Firm Diversity Report” found that only 1 percent of the 840 equity partners at the big firms are black and that 13 of those law firms have no ...

·        Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Sees Record ...

The Herald | HeraldOnline.com-12 Sep 2012

WASHINGTON — The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) holds its third annual meeting, Sept. 13, 2012, at the Mandarin Oriental ...

·        Juries more diverse, courtwatchers say

Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette-13 Sep 2012

"We've made progress on diversity," said Steve Beckett, director of the UI College of Law trial advocacy program and an Urbana defense ...

·        Diversity within a company helps workers feel special

USA TODAY-16 Sep 2012

Diversity within a company helps workers feel special ... In the large law firm, they found that a greater number of female supervisors improved ...

·        Diversity Roundup: Study Finds Photo ID Laws Could Stifle Minority ...

National Journal-12 Sep 2012

Study Finds Photo ID Laws Could Stifle Young Minority Turnout: Photo identification laws in several states could adversely affect the turnout of ...

·        Jobs scarce for legal grads

Lawyers Weekly-18 Sep 2012

The high rate of depression among lawyers and a lack of diversity are two of the biggest concerns confronting the legal profession at the ...

·        Canadian universities try to attract more diversity to law schools

Brandon Sun-21 Aug 2012

It's just one example of a number of measures Canadians universities have taken over the years to try to increase diversity in its law school ...

·        Students Defend Diversity and Affordablity at Regents Public ...

The Bottom Line-13 Sep 2012

The negative effect of increased fees on the diversity of the law school students occupied the later half of Petak's speech. “Costs of attending ...

·        Visiting students bring cultural diversity

StateHornet.com-19 Sep 2012

Visiting students bring cultural diversity. The number of ... “I was a full-time student back home and I studied law,” said Kaye. “I'm taking my ...

South African

 

·        Woolworths challenged to test EE law

Independent Online-07 Sep 2012

A court case like that will help and at least give South Africans legal ... the company was committed to transformation, and the spirit of diversity.

• Whites against Woolworths: doth they protest too much? Daily Maverick

·        Marikana persists: Remember the rule of law

Daily Maverick-12 Sep 2012

We must remember that we are a country with a constitution and laws which were crafted with the challenge posed by the diversity of our ...

 

·        Greater collaboration urged as SA moves towards multiparticipant ...

Creamer Media's Engineering News-06 Sep 2012

... hurdles in the sector, says law firm Werksmans Attorneys director Greg Nott. ... Diversity in teams means that a broader problem space is explored, ... whom we agree with and we must work hard as part of a diverse team.

·        A marriage made in hell

Daily Maverick-28 Aug 2012

... a need to recognise the diverse nature of South Africa's families when embarking on policy initiatives, this diversity of family forms is not seen ...

·        Breakaway advocates plan to form non-racial group

Legalbrief (subscription)-17 Sep 2012

Trengove reportedly said they were 'determined to build a non-racial group that ... It will have to be a third way,' Trengove is quoted as saying.

 

Helping hand needed for law students

Published in: Legalbrief Today Date: Fri 14 September 2012 Category: General Issue No: 3121   A students organisation dedicated to protecting human rights, preventing discrimination and promoting social justice and the rule of law, and backed by Juta, the Claude Leon Foundation, Section27, the Open Society Foundation, CALS, Eversheds and Bell Dewar among others, is looking for additional assistance in funding its annual seminar which brings together students from across the country to engage with legal activists, academics, leaders of the Bench, civil society members and others. Students for Law and Social Justice (SLSJ) is a society formed in partnership between students from various SA universities and aims to transform legal education and access to justice. The SLSJ has won the support of Advocate Geoff Budlender, who said it 'provides hope that we will achieve a legal system and a legal profession which are more responsive to the needs of ordinary people', and former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, who praises the students for 'taking a leadership role in advancing constitutionalism among a new generation of aspirant lawyers who did not live under apartheid'. This year's seminar, scheduled for 21-24 September at Habonim Campsite, Onrus, Western Cape, is being organised by students from Stellenbosch, UCT and UWC. It will be held under the theme, Cross-examining our Constitutional Democracy: Does Your Vote Really Count?, and has attracted a number of highly-respected speakers. Among many other subjects, the role of the judiciary in transforming society, the relationship between judicial activism and judicial deference, and the powers of the President contrasted with those of the Constitutional Court, as well as the review of the Constitution will come under the microscope. An impressive list of speakers is headed by such legal luminaries as Chaskalson; Justice Edwin Cameron and Kate O'Regan, of the Constitutional Court; Judge Dennis Davis; Roelf Meyer, chief negotiator for the National Party at the Kempton Park talks; Advocates Budlender, Wim Trengove, Paul Hoffman and Gcina Malindi (President Zuma's personal advocate, who argued 'The Spear' case); Enver Daniels, the Chief State Law Adviser, and various academics. If you are able to assist with funding, wish to attend or require any further information contact Quintin Combrink (seminar co-ordinator) at 072 242 8687 or slsj.seminar2012@gmail.com or qtcombrink@gmail.com .