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OBserving Law – the IALS Open Book Service for Law is part of the School of Advanced Study’s Humanities Digital Library open access book publishing initiative. Our open access books are free to read online and download in PDF format for anyone in the world to use.
The IALS library collection holds numerous publications for legal research.
Latest Posts
Recommendations for the probity of computer evidence requested by the Ministry of Justice, now published
By Stephen Mason, Barrister and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. In August 2020, Alex Chalk MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, invited Paul Marshall, Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers,...
Unlocking Law. A Quick Look at the IALS OBserving Law Open Book Service
In the second of our series Digital-IALS, Steve Whittle takes a look at OBserving Law, the IALS digital book service. There seems no better time for OBserving Law, the IALS Open Book Service for Law, to continue its work for the UK legal research communities in making...
New Publication: ‘Legal Records at Risk: a Strategy for Safeguarding our Legal Heritage’
The three-year Legal Records at Risk project, based at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, commenced in September 2015 to: Broaden the concept of "legal" records from their traditional definition as court records or deeds to the...
William Twining in conversation with David Sugarman
Date: 21st May 2019 Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Professor William Twining discussed his intellectual memoir, Jurist in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2019), in...
The increase in the theft of keyless motor vehicles
By Stephen Mason, Barrister and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. There has been an increase in the number of motor vehicles stolen recently, as reported by the BBC on 28 March 2019: ‘Car theft rise prompts keyless...