LAW Water Law
This guide is intended to help researchers locate cases, legislation, commentary and databases on Water Law and can be used as a resource for Law 583.
Law Library
You will find the Bennett Jones Law Library website to be useful for your general legal research needs.
General Legal Databases
A list of suggested keyword terms for your database searches is found in the "Where to Start" tab of this guide. These resources can also be found under Legal Databases on the Bennett Jones Law Library's website.
Online Resources specifically useful for legal research include:
- CanLII This link opens in a new windowCanLII, is a non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to provide Open Access, freely accessible primary legal material, including court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowContains the full text of numerous legal journals and monographs, U.S. government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, world trials and more.
- Lexis+ Canada This link opens in a new window
- Available to Faculty of Law students only
- Password access only
Content includes Canadian, US, UK, international and foreign legal materials, and Practical Guidance. - Westlaw Edge (UofC Law School only) This link opens in a new windowFaculty of Law students and faculty may obtain an individual password.Westlaw Edge is a full text and indexing database that provides access to a variety of law and finding tools. It includes Canadian statutes and regulations, reported decisions from Canadian courts and tribunals, Canadian law journals and law reviews. Westlaw includes nearly 15,000 databases covering most US primary and secondary legal materials and legal research tools. It also includes over 700 full text law reviews and has legal material from the UK, Australia and the EU.
- Westlaw Canada This link opens in a new window
- Access to subscribed content only
Platform for database products published by Thomas Reuters Canada. Includes primary sources, commentary, court documents, forms and precedents, and finding tools. Full text source for Canadian law resources. Includes the Canadian Abridgement Digests and Canadian Encyclopedic Digest; cases (reported and unreported), commentary, legislations, journal articles covering the areas of general law, family law and criminal law.
Finding Legislation
- Alberta King's PrinterProvincial government website that contains an alphabetical listing of statutes. Also includes Alberta Gazette.Official source of Alberta government laws and publications since 1906.
- Canadian Legislation - AlbertaFind resources and best practices for searching Alberta legislation including statues, regulations and bills.
- Statutes of AlbertaThe Provincial Statutes of Canada library in HeinOnline contains the Annual and Revised Statutes of Alberta from 1906 to present.
- Alberta Law CollectionAll of the Statutes up to 1990, Legislative Assembly Bills, Debates and Journals, the Alberta Gazette and the Ordinances of the Northwest Territories prior to the birth of Alberta.
- KP source professional This link opens in a new windowKP Source Professional is a fully searchable database of the current text of Alberta's statutes and regulations, Registrar's Periodical, and Spring and Fall Sitting legislation. It also includes Rules of Court and Practice Notes, the Alberta Gazette (1996 to present) and Orders-in-Council (1967 to present), as well as a variety of other legislative related publications.
- LEGISinfoFrom the Library of Parliament, "This tool provides electronic access to a wide range of information about individual bills, such as:
- the text of the bill at various stages;
- government press releases and backgrounders (for government bills);
- legislative summaries from the Parliamentary Research
- important speeches at second reading;
- votes; and
- coming into force data." - Legal DatabasesA list of legal databases available at the University of Calgary.
- Revised statutes of Canada This link opens in a new windowThis database includes over 48,000 pages of Canadian statutory law, covering all six revisions from the official printed volumes. These volumes are organized by edition and year. The Revised Statutes of Canada set is the consolidation of the Statutes of Canada incorporating amendments and acts that have been added since the last revision.
Finding Case Law
Depending on your research, you will need to find cases. The Bennett Jones Law Library's Legal Databases, Canadian Cases and Decisions, and Foreign Cases and Decisions pages will assist you generally. The Courts page is divided by jurisdiction. Some places to search for cases include:
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