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The University of Toronto Law Journal
Description
Founded in 1935, this eminent publication is the oldest university law journal in Canada. It publishes the work of internationally respected scholars in law and many related disciplines such as economics, political science, philosophy, sociology and history.
The journal has consistently represented a broad and visionary approach to legal scholarship initially announced by its first editor, W.P.M. Kennedy. Kennedy’s mandate for the publication was to foster the knowledge of comparative laws, “not merely as substantive or adjectival systems, but as expressions of organized human life, of ordered progress, and of social justice.”
The journal's editor is Karen Knop, a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law who specializes in international law. Her book Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law in 2003. She is the editor of Gender and Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Re-Thinking Federalism: Citizens, Markets and Governments in a Changing World (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1995), as well as the author of a number of journal articles and book chapters. Professor Knop’s current projects include a co-edited symposium issue of Law and Contemporary Problems on “The Return of the Private: Private International Law Meets Global Governance.” Professor Knop has served as the rapporteur for the International Law Association's Committee on Feminism and International Law and as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on International Law.
UTLJ online
The University of Toronto Law Journal (UTLJ) is now available online, beginning with the Fall 2007 issue.
The online journal can be found on the University of Toronto Press website at:
http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/120886/
In the online version, the table of contents and abstracts, as well as a few articles, are available for free. Other articles may be purchased individually or as part of a complete issue.
By registering on the site, readers can also sign up to have the table of contents emailed to them when a new issue comes out.
UTLJ Online has all the features that users and librarians look for in an electronic resource. In particular, it offers readers full searching (full text, Boolean, relevancy ranking, and persistent keyword searching), quick searching (single field, single button, automatic recognition of ISSN and DOI), advanced searching (citation text, publication, subjects, or content types), search results (summaries, dimensional navigation, abstracts, citation or tabular results, search within results, filter selected items), parent list navigation, publication metadata, TOC alerting, forward reference linking, and link exports. For librarians, it simplifies access management, linking, and usage reporting with powerful yet easy-to-use administration tools. Support for established and emerging standards such as OpenURL and COUNTER enable seamless integration with existing library systems.
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