The processes of law can be almost like figuring out a new language with little but a book written completely in a dialect you don’t understand, or charting a course to a new fantastic place with no road map; it’s rife with hiccups, missteps, retractions, and maybe just a few little moments of pure, unadulterated fear. And when it comes to codification, the same story goes.

When it comes to Anglo-American processes of law, it may seem like a bundle better left untampered with, but the truth is that the entire backbone of the modern tradition of British law comes down to understanding the importance of modernizing the legal codes and processes, because if the rules don’t change with the people, then what good are the laws?

Ever been locked out of your home?

Imagine, it’s 9 pm on a Friday night. The taxi drops you off just outside your home. You are exhausted and can’t wait to flop on the couch. As you reach your front door you fumble around trying to find your keys. You look everywhere through your bag and pat-down yourself from head to toe to see if they are in a different pocket.

Your mind starts racing wondering where you left your keys. Are they at work? Did you leave them at the bar when you were having some after work drinks with mates?

It’s a typical day. It’s 8:30am and you’re rising from bed, running to start the coffee machine and then settling in for a good day’s work—right at your very own home office.

From 2000 to 2010, at-home workers were one of the biggest growing sectors in the U.S., with a 69% increase in just ten years. Don’t think that’s a lot? It’s the difference between 9.2 million and 13.4 million in just a small amount of time. That’s a whole lot of IKEA office stations being put together by helpless boyfriends and friendly neighbors with a tool kit.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is Canada’s largest union with over 600,000 members dispersed in hundreds of locals across the country. Yet despite CUPE’s contributions to the labour movement in Canada over the last 50 years it has not been the subject of much academic research; indeed there is no systematic institutional history of the union which covers its entire history either at a national or local level. The absence of literature on CUPE and other unions is all the more alarming when one considers the overwhelming ignorance of the general public with regards to the history of unions, what they stand for and how they operate. This study aims to correct this omission in some small part.

Today, social media is a term that everyone knows. Even the most remote areas of the world have at least heard of Facebook and Twitter, and are probably using them on a regular basis. But it wasn’t always that way. Social media, in its present form, has been around a relatively short term and even though you probably can’t imagine living without it now, except for the last few decades, everyone did.

But it wasn’t always that way. Social media, in its present form, has been around a relatively short term and even though you probably can’t imagine living without it now, except for the last few decades, everyone did.

Of course, how you define social media can determine where you actually start the history of the medium.