CALL/ACBD Free Webinar - The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide

The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide

Canada’s new – and free – legal citation guide, the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide, was recently published in June 2024 and is available on CanLII at 2024 CanLIIDocs 830.  Hear from several of its creators and learn more about the COAL Guide, including why the guide was created, the benefits of the guide, the details of some of its citation rules, and the reasoning behind some of the many decisions that were made in the process of creating these rules.

Speakers:

• James Bachmann is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide and is also the Instruction Librarian at the University of British Columbia and an honorary lecturer at UBC's Allard School of Law, where he's the coordinator of the first year legal research and writing program and teaches both first year legal research and writing and upper year legal research courses.
• Ann Marie Melvie is the Librarian at the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, having served in this position since 2001. She is a co-compiler of the Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan, prepared in 2015, and she is a Managing Editor of the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide. Ann Marie is a Past President of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.
• Michelle Terriss is a Managing Editor of the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide. She practiced law in Alberta before becoming the Law Librarian at Thompson Rivers University, where she teaches Advanced Legal Research and Writing.

Note: Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link.

*This webinar is free for all attendees!