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Foundations of Law

This guide provides basic, fundamental materials and information for the study of law

Legal Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

How-to Videos on CED & Halsbury's
Queen's University guide to using legal encyclopedias

The Canadian encyclopedic digest : a complete statement of the federal laws of Canada and the provincial laws of Ontario as derived from the cases and statutes.(also available online in Westlaw)
Call Number: Law Library Primary Sources KEO 142 C36 2013
Halsbury's Laws of Canada (also available online via Lexis Advance Quicklaw)
Call Number: Law Library Primary Sources KE 180 H35
Black's law dictionary (also available online in Westlaw)
Call Number: Law Library Reference Collection KF 156 B53 2014

Publication Date: 2014
Oxford Dictionary of Law
The philosophy of law: an encyclopedia
The new Oxford companion to law
The Oxford companion to American law
Encyclopedia of the European Union
Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Development