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2025

Professor David Sugarman

Meet the JLS author: The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case

March 2025

Professor David Sugarman, Lancaster University and IALS

Low sunlight at Øksfjorden in Loppa, Troms og Finnmark, Norway, 2022

Rights of indigenous peoples in Europe: introduction and starting points for research

January 2025

Hester Swift, IALS Foreign and International Law Librarian

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Legal Education in Africa and of individual Africans in the UK – records in the IALS Archives

January 2025

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

2024

Should AI replace judges in our courts?

December 2024

By Hazel Stevenson, IALS PhD Student

Black and white photograph of Maurice Bishop (on the right in the foreground) while Prime Minister of Grenada walking at the head of a group of people at a rally

Legal narratives of the invasion of Grenada, 1983

October 2024

Wren Smith, IALS Senior Library Assistant (Serials)

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Legal Education in the Caribbean: records in the IALS Archives

October 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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IALS Legal Research Skills Training Programme

October 2024

Katie Radford, Access Librarian

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Lead, Innovate, Transform: a report from AALL 2024, Chicago

September 2024

Marilyn Clarke, IALS Librarian

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War, Terrorism and the Law: records in the IALS Archives

August 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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From Vikings to Autonomous Ships

July 2024

Hester Swift, IALS Foreign and International Law Librarian

Cover of Iris de Freitas Brazao: Legal Luminary and Trailblazer Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England, 1896-1989

Review: Joanne Collins-Gonsalves, Iris de Freitas Brazao: Legal Luminary and Trailblazer Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England, 1896-1989

June 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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Trans People and the Law: a Long Road to Equality

June 2024

D. Maoz-Michaels, Senior Library Assistant (IALS)

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Making Sure that Climate Legislation has Real-Life Impact

June 2024

Rafael Jimenez Aybar and Franklin De Vrieze, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD).

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Environmental Law: records in the IALS Archives

May 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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The prosecution of Gay’s the Word bookshop – and what happened next

April 2024

Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian

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Refugees: records in the IALS Archives

March 2024

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

2023

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Israel: records in the IALS Archives

December 2023

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

IALS Contribution to History Day 2023

November 2023

IALS Library. Presentation created by Information Resources Team

The display cabinet on the 2nd floor of IALS Library with items selected for the Shakespeare First Folio 400 anniversary.

Shakespeare’s First Folio – 400th anniversary display at IALS

November 2023

David Percik, IALS Information Resources Manager

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Palestine: records in the IALS Archives

November 2023

Clare Cowling, IALS Archivist

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The Importance of Library Legal Research Training for Law Students and Researchers

October 2023

Alice Tyson, IALS Access Librarian

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It is a Long Way to… E-Evidence: EU Reforms in the Collection of Electronic Evidence Part 2 – The Role of Service Providers

March 2023

2022

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On this day 25 December 1647 – Christmas was cancelled

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Demonstrations outside Abortion Clinics – Proportionality of Fixed Buffer Zone Legislation

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Extended Reality and First Responder Training – Law, Policing and Good Guidance

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Digitising The Law Society’s examinations papers in collaboration with Ancestry

March 2022

Fair Dealing week online launch event at IALS

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The Importance of Names in Education

2021

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On this day 16 November 1989 – The Children Act

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Is judicial biography scholarly enough for a PhD?

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Witchcraft in the context of contemporary Human Rights

A photo of the plaque commemorating Eric Irons which is located on the wall of the National Justice Museum in Nottingham.

Eric Irons OBE – UK’s first Black Magistrate

October 2021

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University of London LLM students – set yourself up for success with IALS Library

September 2021

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Killing two birds with one stone: Milieudefensie v RDS, a game changer for climate change and corporate accountability

September 2021

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On this day 28 August 1833 – Abolition of Slavery Act

August 2021

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Electronic Evidence and judicial consideration in India

A photo of the statue of justice that sits atop the Old Bailey in London

On this day….27 July 1967

A close up image of a man of colour in hand cuffs, with both clenched hands placed upon his forehead

Lawyers urged to ‘educate themselves’ over endemic racism in the justice system

July 2021

A black and white photograph of bare feet in chains standing on sand.

Assessing access to legal advice for survivors of modern slavery

A photo of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg

Not So Grand: The Big Brother Watch ECtHR Grand Chamber judgment

The Theory and Practice of Legislation – Special Issue on Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Quality of Legislation

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 (CHIS Act)

The American Revolution and the British (mis)understanding, in one word: SPAC!

On this day …10 May 1922

An empirical study of the gender of counsel before the UK’s highest court

International Women’s Day

Digital Evidence and Computer Reliability on the Parliamentary Agenda in the Wake of the Post Office Horizon Scandal

March 2021

2020

Recommendations for the probity of computer evidence requested by the Ministry of Justice, now published

December 2020

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How parliaments can keep an eye on surveillance technology during COVID-19

From anti-terrorism legislation to COVID emergency laws: Can sunset clauses live up to their promise?

Parliamentary Committees: windows into the world of COVID-19 legislation and its impact

To declare an emergency or not to declare an emergency? That is not the question

Oil painting, ‘Granville Sharp the abolitionist rescuing a slave from the hands of his master’ by James Hayllar, 1864

Slavery and the Legal Profession

September 2020

Discussions at CEELI Institute deal with issues addressed by Council of Europe guidelines on electronic evidence

Dr Colin King, Director of Postgraduate Research.

Academic Careers Q & A: Professor Colin King

July 2020

Post-Legislative Scrutiny in Paris and London

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Five Reasons to do your PhD at IALS

Dr Enrico Albanesi

Academic Careers Q & A: Professor Enrico Albanesi, IALS Associate Research Fellow

May 2020

Emergency sign in red for CORONAVISRUS outbreak

Preparing the roll-back of COVID-19 emergency legislation

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Academic Careers Q & A: Tasneem Kausar, PhD Student

March 2020

Parliaments in Europe conducting Post-Legislative Scrutiny

Four of the books written by Betty Moys

A Look at the Archives: Elizabeth M. Moys -Betty Moys

January 2020

Women at the Bar: the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and the admission of women to the legal profession

Effective Legislation and Post-Legislative Scrutiny

Legal Comments on PM Unsigned Letter to the EU

LLM Success: advice from a recent student

New Publication: ‘Legal Records at Risk: a Strategy for Safeguarding our Legal Heritage’

IALS Transformation Project 2018-2020: Minimum Disruption and The Colour Blue

The Language of Law Reform

Robustness and Reliability in Computer Systems

The Use of Statistics and Software Code

The Use of the Word ‘Robust’ to Describe Software Code

The Increase in the Theft of Keyless Motor Vehicles

William Twining in Conversation with David Sugarman

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) makes Case Papers from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council freely available on BAILII

Stolen Vehicles