Sharon Wang, LLB (SWUPL, China), LLM (McGill), MLIS (McGill)
Assistant Librarian, Reference

 

Sharon Wang joined the Law Library in 2006 as a Reference Librarian.

Prior to joining Osgoode, she worked at McGill University Government Document Department as a reference assistant (2005-2006), spent one summer at the Library of Parliament working for a digital preservation project, and held various part-time positions at McGill Law Library. .

Research interests

Foreign, comparative, and international legal research methodology, international intellectual property, digital copyright, Chinese law and legal research.

Publications

• Book Review: the Idea of Authorship in Copyright, in Canadian Law Library Review (2008), vol. 33, p.462.
• Review of Halsbury's Laws of Canada-Access to information and privacy, in Canadian Law Library Review (2007), vol. 32, no. 2, p.84-85.
• “From Law Student to Law Librarian: Here I Am!” in Canadian Law Library Review (2006), vol. 31, no. 2, p. 72-75.
• "International Copyright and Developing Countries: the impact of the TRIPs Agreement", LLM thesis, Comparative Law Institution, Faculty of Law, McGill University.

Conference Presentations

• "How can technology enrich the experience of law students searching information globally?", presented at the International Association of Law Schools Conference: Learning from Each Other- enriching the law school curriculum in an interrelated world, Soochow University, China, October 17-19, 2007.

Courses

• Legal Research and Writing for International Graduate Students (Fall 2008)