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The Squire Law Library at Cambridge: the Historical Development and Current Status of the International Law Collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2017

Lesley Dingle
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Abstract

In this paper Lesley Dingle provides a detailed account of the historical development of the public international law collections at the Squire Law Library in Cambridge. She explains the close involvement of the academic lawyers and the librarians, past and present, in developing an important collection which reflects the significance of the subject at Cambridge's Faculty of Law. Finally, she brings things up-to-date by detailing the extent of the electronic provision which benefits the modern scholar in this discipline.

Keywords

public international lawacademic law libraries
Type
Sources and Methods in International Law
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 78 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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