FLARE is a collaboration between the major libraries collecting law in the United Kingdom: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (Chair), Bodleian Law Library, Squire Law Library, British Library, and School of Oriental and African Studies. It is working to improve the coverage and accessibility of foreign legal materials at the national level and to raise expertise in their use.

The work by FLARE is currently focused on improving national coverage of the law of the transition states of central and Eastern Europe and building a distributed national collection of official gazettes.

Origins of Flare Group - FLAG project

Current projects include:

Agree collection development policies that will improve coverage of European and central European law as a national resource

Produce a series of Research Guides to the law of foreign jurisdictions

Hold training courses on the law of the transition states

Publish a Union List of holdings of European Legal Gazettes in major research libraries

Sconul Focus article: Formation of a distributed national collection of foreign official gazettes

Help legal researchers find foreign law

FLAG Foreign Law Guide

The FLARE Group has also given firm support and warm encouragement to the development of the
Flare Index to Treaties.