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Leading Research Facilitation in Law

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

22nd January 2020

IALS Lunchtime Seminar: The Public/Private Divide in the Law of...

23rd January 2020

IALS PhD Masterclass: Presentational Skills and Advocacy Masterclass

31st January 2020

IALS Legal History Seminar: ‘Predatory marriage and the law: Durham...

5th February 2020

ILPC Workshop - Human-Data Interaction, the Internet of Things,...

10th February 2020

IALS Lunchtime Seminar: 'AI Theory of Justice'

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News

17th December 2019

Request an IALS Library roadshow at your law school

16th December 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS - IALS/Society of Legal Scholars: The Bribery Act: 10 Years On

10th December 2019

IALS Senior Associate Research Fellow Professor Emeritus David Sugarman FRHistS has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the American Society for Legal History (ASLH)

6th December 2019

Applications are now being invited for Visiting Research Fellowships at the IALS

Videos

10th October 2019

LPC Evening Seminar: To Blockchain or not to Blockchain: Implications for Data Protection Law

Dr John Sheridan (Digital Director, The National Archives)
Professor Christopher Millard (Head of Cloud Legal Project, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London)

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Courses

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 IALS Student Law Review (ISLRev) is an online open access peer-reviewed law journal edited by IALS research students. Submit an article.
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.