Visitor requests

Visitors to the Squire Law Library

Academic visitors

Academic visitors can request access just to the Squire Law Library rather than to the Faculty. Under these circumstances no bench fee is payable. Applications should be made in advance to the Squire Law Librarian, Mr David Wills via the Library’s email address: squire@law.cam.ac.uk

Visitors should indicate the dates of their stay.

Academic visitors to the Squire Law Library are also required to apply for a Library Card. Cards are issued by the Reader Registration Office at the main University Library in Cambridge. Details concerning the procedure to apply for a Library Card can be found on the University Library’s webpage.

With regard to these arrangements for academic visitors to the Library, it is not possible to allocate specific desk space in the library and access to the Senior Common Room is not permitted.

Please be aware that the Faculty can only accommodate a limited number of academic visitors at any one time and applications may therefore be denied on the grounds of capacity – in such cases, applicants will be contacted and alternative dates sought.

PhD visitors

Requests to visit the Squire Law Library can be made by research students working at PhD level. Applications for access to the Library’s resources should be made in writing to the Squire Law Librarian (squire@law.cam.ac.uk). Applications from research students to visit the library should include details of the dates of the proposed visit and should also be supported by a letter from the student’s PhD supervisor at the student’s home university.

Research students at PhD level are also required to apply for a Library Card. Cards are issued by the Reader Registration Office at the main University Library. The Library Card entitles visitors to use the University Library as well as, by arrangement, some other libraries at the University of Cambridge including the Squire Law Library. Details concerning the procedure to apply for a Library Card can be found on the University Library’s webpage.

Visiting PhD students to the Squire Law Library need to be entirely self-sufficient in terms of their research activity and also regarding their financial and accommodation arrangements while in Cambridge. It should also be noted that academic staff at the Faculty of Law are not in a position to provide supervisions to, and are not obliged to meet with, visiting students and researchers who are permitted to use the Squire Law Library.

The library can only accommodate a certain number of visiting PhD researchers at any one time due to capacity levels especially during busy periods of the year.

Other visitors to the Library

Taught Masters students, and undergraduate students at other UK universities, wishing to use the Squire Law Library during vacation periods only are required to contact the Squire Law Librarian for permission to use the Library and then, if permission is granted, to apply for a University Library card following the University Library procedure.

Sixth form students are encouraged to make use of the University Library having first registered there to be a reader. If a sixth form student wishes to consult law-related material they should enquire with the Squire by emailing their request to: squire@law.cam.ac.uk

All other visitors who wish to visit the Squire Law Library may write to the Squire Law Librarian (squire@law.cam.ac.uk) to request access. It should be noted that it may not always be possible to grant permission to use the Library.