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48-751: The Inner Temple Library is a private law library in London , England, serving barristers , judges, and students on the Bar Professional Training Course . Its parent body is the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple , one of the four Inns of Court . Its law collections cover the legal systems of the British Isles ( England and Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland , the Republic of Ireland ,

96-780: A department of the Cambridge University Library; and the Slade-Baker collection of correspondence accumulated by the Slade-Baker firm of solicitors in Bewdley which is in Birmingham University Library . The largest law libraries in the world are found in the United States . The world's largest law library is the Law Library of Congress , which holds over 2.9 million volumes. The world's largest academic law library

144-773: A depository library under the Program. Most law libraries are members of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). As of 2010, the association has over 5,000 member libraries. Another important association for law libraries is the Special Libraries Association . Every accredited American law school is required by the American Bar Association to have a law library meeting certain minimum specifications with respect to quantity and quality of materials available. Some law school libraries are kept in

192-619: A full set of United States Reports , one or both of the unofficial U.S. Supreme Court reporters , the West National Reporter System , the West American Digest System , official reporters from various states, the Federal Register , volumes of American Jurisprudence , bound volumes containing issues of prominent law reviews from around the country, federal and state statutes and regulations (such as

240-418: A law library. Public law libraries are available in many states, often in the local courthouses . Certain larger law firms maintain a private library for their own attorneys, but many firms in college towns and larger cities with universities simply dispatch their attorneys to local law schools to do legal research. A typical law library holds a large number of works not seen in other libraries, including

288-576: A number of smaller lecture/seminar rooms. Each year, it arranges workshops and lectures for academics and practitioners. Two annual conferences hosted by the IALS are the W. G. Hart Workshop and the Hamlyn Lectures series. The institute maintains exchange programmes with foreign legal institutions. A partnership with the Beijing Arbitration Commission , established in 2012, seeks to promote

336-615: A public law library. While New York public access law libraries have remained relatively small, the LA Law Library in Los Angeles County is currently second in size behind the Law Library of Congress among U.S. public law libraries, with a collection at just under 1 million volumes, not including digital resources. Public law libraries are available, and in some cases are required, to offer law library and legal research services to

384-554: A section of the university library devoted to law. In the United States, law school libraries may be subject to accreditation review by the American Bar Association Standards of Legal Education . Law libraries may be found in courts (e.g. judge's chambers ), legislatures (e.g. the Law Library of Congress ), prison libraries , government departments, private law firms , and barristers' chambers . Outside of

432-685: A variety of relevant topics. Courses include the Sir William Dale Centre Course in Legislative Drafting and the Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration. In 2013, the peer-reviewed IALS Student Law Review was founded, offering both Master's and Ph.D. students the opportunity to publish original research and manage a scholarly journal. The institute has one main lecture theatre complemented by

480-509: Is a member institute of the School of Advanced Study , University of London . Founded in 1947, it is a national academic centre of excellence, serving the legal community and universities across the United Kingdom and the world through legal scholarship, facilities, and its comparative law library. The mission of the institute is to be "the focal point of legal research for the United Kingdom and

528-528: Is in the style of the eighteenth century. The library itself occupies the second floor, with private rooms of the benchers below and an auditorium and meeting rooms above. The history of the Library is discussed in some detail in the introduction to J. Conway Davies's Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple ( Oxford , 1972). The Library is open to all members of

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576-496: Is the United States Environmental Protection Agency , which runs a National Library Network providing access to specialized material to agency researchers and the general public. The United States Supreme Court Building houses one of the most extensive federal public law libraries in the world, rivaled by the Law Library of Congress . Strictly speaking, neither the U.S. Supreme Court Library nor

624-644: Is the library of Harvard Law School , which holds over 2 million volumes. By way of contrast, the largest law library in the United Kingdom is the Bodleian Law Library with a collection of over 550,000 volumes. Broadly speaking, there are three categories of law libraries in the United States: academic, public, and private. Every law school accredited by the American Bar Association houses

672-503: The British Library and BAILII have led to increased web presence for legal research, with IALS hosting BAILII and supporting its role in providing free access to full text British and Irish legal materials. The Concordat with the British Library is a collaboration to map existing holdings in foreign legal materials in both libraries and collate information to form a national collection of foreign official gazettes. Recently

720-589: The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man ) and also Commonwealth countries . There are, in addition, extensive non-law collections covering such subjects as history, topography , biography and heraldry , and an important collection of legal and historical manuscripts. The Library is first mentioned in 1440, then in the Inn’s records in 1506. The Library refused to accept John Selden 's manuscripts in 1654, most likely because

768-468: The Law Library of Congress is a public access law library; both, however, are government libraries funded by taxpayers, and accountable to the U.S. Supreme Court or to the U.S. Congress respectively. The Law Library of Congress does serve the public through various means, e.g. websites, social media services, and a physically accessible library. New York and California are examples of states that have statutes requiring all their counties to maintain

816-604: The School of Advanced Study , the institute offers a number of fellowships for legal research to both national and international legal academics and practitioners. Fellows give lectures in their field of expertise during their tenure. There are over 70 Ph.D. / M.Phil. students studying at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, in addition to postgraduate law students registered for LL.M. and M.A. degrees. The LL.M. in Drafting Legislation, Regulation, and Policy, which

864-706: The United Kingdom is the Bodleian Law Library with a collection of over 550,000 volumes. Outside of England, the largest law library in the Commonwealth of Nations is Osgoode Hall Law School 's at York University in Canada, with more than 500,000 print volumes. The earliest common law law libraries were founded in the late 15th century in London and include Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn . Special collections of legal literature in university and research libraries in England include

912-529: The United States Code and Code of Federal Regulations ), and a variety of treatises , encyclopedias, looseleaf services , and practice guides. Large law libraries may contain many additional materials covering topics such as: legal education , research , and writing ; the history of the American legal system and profession; the history behind certain high-profile cases; techniques of oral argument; and

960-478: The University of London colleges, including University College London , London School of Economics and Political Science , King's College London , and Queen Mary, University of London rely exclusively on the institute's research holdings for coursework. Since the late 1990s, IALS has participated in collaborative and standalone digital projects resulting in a number of searchable databases publicly available via

1008-467: The "jewel in the Institute’s crown", and is a repository library for legal texts published in the United Kingdom. The library covers five floors of Charles Clore House with the library entrance on the fourth floor. The library catalogue forms part of a shared catalogue with its fellow School of Advanced Study institutes and that of Senate House Library . The institute library is considered one of

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1056-565: The AALL and specifically the Academic Law Libraries special interest section. In addition to providing library services, many "dual degree" (J.D. / M.L.I.S.) law librarians teach legal research to law students. Public law libraries in the United States exist in many states and in federal jurisdictions, such as federal agencies ; many courthouses also have a law library. Public law libraries are publicly funded but may or may not be open to

1104-510: The Government Law Libraries special interest section. Public law librarians who have written books about providing legal research services to the public and managing public law libraries include Anthony Aycock, Roy Balleste, Joel Fishman, Paul D. Healey, Ellyssa Kroski, Laurie Selwyn, and Virginia Tucker. Some law firms and corporate legal departments maintain in-house libraries, the size and content of which vary depending on

1152-639: The Library, entitled "The Electric Light as Applied to the Lighting of the Inner Temple Law Library". The building was destroyed during the Second World War: several thousand volumes of printed books (but none of the manuscripts) were lost. The destroyed books were mostly replaced, either by gift or purchase, over the next 30 years or so. The present building was completed in 1958 to the design of T.W. Sutcliffe, with alterations made in 2019-2022, and

1200-650: The Queen Mother , overstayed and her official schedule had to be abandoned. In 1994, the IALS became a member of the School of Advanced Study . A five-year refurbishment of Charles Clore House is currently underway, the first phase of which was completed in September 2012, incorporating a larger café and improved lecture facilities on the ground floor. The IALS library holds a collection of over 300,000 legal texts, complemented by over 3,000 current serial titles, reports, and legislative materials. It has been described as

1248-585: The Sir William Dale Centre, and Woolf Chair of Legal Education at the fore. Areas of research conducted by the institute include legislative drafting, human rights, international financial regulation, and transnational taxation law. Notable recent works by Institute faculty includes Thornton's Legislative Drafting, Fifth Edition , by Professor Helen Xanthaki, and Foundations and Future of Financial Regulation and European Comparative Company Law by Professor Mads Andenas . Through its association with

1296-566: The United States, the largest and most extensive law libraries are those found in countries that follow the English common law which spread throughout the world with the expansion of the British Empire . These countries include but are not limited to Australia , Canada , India , and New Zealand . Law libraries in these countries can be found in law schools, courts, government, private law firms, and barristers chambers. The largest law library in

1344-794: The Viner collection at the Bodleian Library , University of Oxford (the personal library of Charles Viner , bequeathed to the Radcliffe Library in 1756); a collection of English legal manuscripts at Cambridge University Library ; the Smuts collection on Commonwealth law, the Maitland collection on legal history, and the Clark, Roby and Buckland collections relating to Roman law , all in the Squire Law Library,

1392-628: The advancement of knowledge of the law in the most general terms." On 11 June 1948, the institute was officially opened by the Lord Chancellor , William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt . The first director was Professor Sir David Hughes Parry , a distinguished Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics and for many years Vice-Chancellor of the University of London . The Librarian, K. Howard Drake also acted as administrative secretary for

1440-479: The countries of the British Commonwealth ." Since 1976, the institute's home has been Charles Clore House, located in the heart of Bloomsbury , at 17 Russell Square . The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies was established in 1947 in response to recommendations made in 1932 by Lord Atkin that the United Kingdom needed an institution "which would be a headquarters for academic research and would promote

1488-435: The faculty. The ABA further sets forth additional requirements, including the requirement that the law library have a full-time director who holds a law degree and a degree in library or information science or equivalent with extensive experience in librarianship. The ABA also requires that the library have sufficient staff and facilities to attend to the needs of the institution. Many academic law librarians participate in

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1536-924: The four Inns of Court. The Library is not open to the public, though non-members may be admitted, upon written application to the Librarian, to consult material not available elsewhere. 51°30′47″N 0°06′34″W  /  51.5131°N 0.1095°W  / 51.5131; -0.1095 Law library A law library may contain print, computer assisted legal research , and microform collections of laws in force, session laws , superseded laws , foreign and international law , and other research resources, e.g. continuing legal education resources and legal encyclopedias (e.g. Corpus Juris Secundum among others), legal treatises , and legal history . A law library may also have law librarians who help legal researchers navigate law library collections and who teach legal research . Some law libraries serve scholars from around

1584-412: The institute claims is "prized by governments around the world as the flagship degree in the subject," trains lawyers from across the common law world in the art of statutory drafting, law reform, and the legislative process. The programme emphasizes a "blend of academic and practitioner concerns in [an] area of critical constitutional importance." During the summer term, short courses are available on

1632-406: The institute was running out of space and were given permission to extend into the basement and ground floor 26 Russell Square . Here it remained until 1976, when the institute moved into No. 17 Russell Square , part of the newly built Charles Clore House designed by Sir Denys Lasdun . At the official opening on 1 April 1976, the then Chancellor of the University of London , Queen Elizabeth,

1680-470: The institute. Housed at 25 Russell Square , the institute occupied all floors of the building, the ground and first floors reserved for the library with rooms on the second and third converted into offices or study/seminar rooms. The library held 11,000 books in its first year, a substantial number donated by Dr. Charles Huberich. An internal telephone system connected all the rooms with a hand book lift installed to move books from floor to floor. By 1949,

1728-463: The legal community consisting of legislators and other public officials, judges, and lawyers and to the general public, students, and to self-represented litigants. These public law libraries may be affiliated state or local courts. Some academic law libraries provide public access as well, especially in public universities . Many public law librarians are members of the American Association of Law Libraries professional association, and specifically in

1776-617: The legislative history of important federal and state statutes. Smaller law libraries usually hold, at a minimum, one unofficial Supreme Court reporter, selected West national reporters and digests specific to the state in which the library is located, the United States Code, a few state-specific reporters and statutory compilations (if they exist for a particular state), and several state-specific treatises and practice guides. Most academic law library websites also contain legal research guidelines on numerous legal topics that are available to

1824-450: The library became a charter member of LLCM-Digital, a US-based consortium of libraries dedicated to the preservation of legal documentation for dissemination via a searchable online database. The institute actively promotes research by its own academic staff and students in conjunction with its role as a national legal research centre. Research centres at the institute contribute to legal research via externally funded projects or study, with

1872-504: The other hand, some university law libraries retain extensive historical collections going back to the earliest English reports. Many law libraries also participate in the Federal Depository Library Program which provides access to government information and documents to the public at no cost. This is particularly true of law school libraries as the library at any accredited law school is automatically eligible to become

1920-471: The practice area and needs of the organization. These libraries would rarely, if ever, be available to individuals outside the organization, although in some locales law firm librarians have informal lending agreements between firms. Private law libraries often participate in the AALL's Private Law Librarians & Information Professionals Special Interest Section. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ( IALS )

1968-506: The public. In recent years, the advent of online legal research outlets such as FindLaw , Westlaw , LexisNexis , Bloomberg Law , and HeinOnline (or in Canada, CanLII ) has reduced the need for some types of printed volumes like reporters and statutory compilations. A number of law libraries have therefore reduced the availability of printed works that can easily be found on the Internet, and have increased their own Internet availability. On

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2016-451: The public. U.S. federal agencies have libraries and librarians who serve the legal research and other research needs of their employees and contractors, but these libraries are not open to the general public without an appointment. The Law Librarians' Society of Washington D.C. has a Special Interest Section, Federal Law Librarians. Some state and federal agencies maintain law libraries focusing on their regulatory areas. One prominent example

2064-422: The same building as the general library, but many are either in the law school's building, or in a separate facility altogether. As of 2015, the American Bar Association has propounded rules requiring each law school's law library to include among its holdings the following "core collection": The ABA also requires a library's collection to meet the academic needs of the students and research and teaching needs of

2112-609: The size of the collection would have necessitated a new building, but it has been described as "the greatest loss which the Library of the Inner Temple ever sustained". In 1707 the Inner Temple was offered the Petyt Manuscripts ( William Petyt had been Keeper of the Records in the Tower , and a well-known writer of constitutional law) and a sum of £150 to build a new Library, which was completed in 1709 and consisted of three rooms. A Librarian

2160-456: The website. These include FLAG (Foreign Law Guides), FIT (Flare Index to Treaties), and Eagle-I, which builds upon the original Jisc funded Intute : Law project (formerly SOSIG Law). The IALS library has partnered with other libraries and organisations in promotions and projects to highlight legal research. The library concentrates on printed and digital resources, often as lead developer for web-based initiatives. Ongoing collaborations with

2208-733: The world's leading comparative research libraries, holding significant material not otherwise available in the United Kingdom . Jurisdictions covered include countries in, North America , Latin America , Europe (including the European Union ) and the Commonwealth . The library is particularly strong in Public International Law . It has a large collection of United States Federal resources and holdings of State primary resources , focused on California , New York , Pennsylvania , Texas , and Louisiana . Postgraduate law students of

2256-497: The world, e.g. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London and the New York City Bar Association Law Library. Law libraries in the United States are usually classified as a type of special library because of their focus on providing specialized resources, as well as their specialized and limited user base. Most law schools around the world have a law library, or in some universities , at least

2304-475: Was appointed immediately, and the practice continues to this day. The library building before World War II was a Gothic building built in 1827-8 by Sir Robert Smirke , contained about 60,000 volumes. Modifications were made in 1867, 1872, and 1882 which extended the Library to eight rooms In 1886, J.E.L. Pickering, Librarian, read a paper at the Library Association monthly meeting on a 5-month trial at

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