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The International Law Collections of the IALS Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2017

Hester Swift
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Abstract

This article concerns the international law collections at the library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London. It is based on a talk given by Hester Swift at the training day entitled ‘Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in International Law’ which was held at IALS on 25 November 2016.

Keywords

public international lawacademic law libraries
Type
Sources and Methods in International Law
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 75 - 77
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 A digitised version of the prospectus is available on the IALS website: <http://ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/IALS_1948-1.pdf>.

2 Steiner, Willi, ‘A Note on the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies’, in Rider, Barry (ed.), Law at the Centre: the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at Fifty (Kluwer Law, 1999) 1–2 Google Scholar; Moys, Elizabeth, ‘The Library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London’, (1956) 49 L.Libr.J. 23, 25Google Scholar.

3 Newell, Jill, ‘The Public International Law Collection in the Library of the IALS’ (1995) 26 Law Librarian 13, 14Google Scholar.

4 Ibid, 13.

5 Moys, Elizabeth, ‘The Library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London’, (1956) 49 Law Library Journal 23, 26Google Scholar.

6 Evidence of state practice may be found in diplomatic correspondence, legal opinions, parliamentary statements and elsewhere. For an introduction to the concept of state practice, see M. Wood, ‘State Practice’, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law.

7 <https://www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm>.

8 Further information about IGO material is available in our United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union research guides: see <http://libguides.ials.sas.ac.uk/international>.

9 The Nuremberg documents were later published under the title Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945–1 October 1946 (Nuremberg, Germany : [s.n.], 1947–1949).

10 DDR-Justiz und NS-Verbrechen : Sammlung Ostdeutscher Strafurteile wegen Nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen, ed. Demps, Laurenz (University Press Amsterdam, 2002–2010)Google Scholar; and Justiz und NS-Verbrechen : Sammlung Deutscher Strafurteile wegen Nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen (University Press Amsterdam, 1968–81)Google Scholar.

11 <http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/search~S6/>.

12 <http://libguides.ials.sas.ac.uk/publicinternationallaw>.