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We are a national resource for legal researchers supporting and facilitating research students at universities across the UK and in the University of London.

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Join over 100 students and researchers studying alongside internationally renowned academics and visiting fellows.

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Be a part of a legal research hub to foster and conduct research in areas related to legal education and legal skills.

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Access a library with over 300,000 legal texts, online databases and focused legal research projects.

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IALS is active in a number of partnerships with other libraries and organisations in the UK and overseas.

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Events

2nd October 2018

Juvenile Justice and the Directive on Childrens' Rights

3rd October 2018

Foundations of the Common Law 1215-1914: Launch of the Online Library

4th October 2018

Private Enforcement Tools in European Capital Markets - The Example...

10th October 2018

Administrative Justice: New Socio-Legal Studies

12th October 2018

The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform

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News

28th August 2018

IALS Transformation Project 2018-2020

24th August 2018

Library annual stock moving and preparations for new session Fri 14th Sept - Mon 1st Oct 2018

15th August 2018

Professor Carl Stychin, gender identity legal expert, to join IALS

Videos

20th March 2018

Reading Human Rights Morally: (Un)Certainty and Restlessness at the European Court of Human Rights

Dr Natasa Mavronicola, Special Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; Senior Lecturer, Birmingham Law

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Did you know?

The Library takes to the road each year, visiting law schools around the country to highlight its collections and services. Request an IALS Library road show at your law school.
The Bluebook explains how to cite the law of more than 40 different foreign jurisdictions.
OBserving Law - the IALS Open Book Service for Law is being developed as part of the School of Advanced Study's Humanities Digital Library open access book publishing initiative.