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The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed, though library users with swipe card access will be able to gain entry. The Law Faculty building will be open from 9am until 5pm during the week (though closed on Saturday 22nd).…

The Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 27 August. We will re-open on Tuesday 28 August at 9am.

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for ICJ Judge James Richard Crawford, Emeritus Whewell Professor of International Law, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Judge Crawford was interviewed at the Peace Palace in The Hague on two consecutive days in May 2018. In addition to transcripts of …

Join us for tours of the Squire Law Library, taking place as part of Open Cambridge 2018. The Squire Law Library maintains one of the largest legal collections in the UK and is an affiliated library of Cambridge University Library. Tour the unique library space, designed by Foster and Partners, and discover the history of the library from its found…

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Law Faculty Open Day on Wednesday 4 July or the University Open Days on Thursday 5 July and Friday 6 July, we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their parents, guardians and teachers can take a self-guided tour and find out more about the library collections, which include over …

The Squire is delighted to announce that all University of Cambridge members now have access, both within the University and from anywhere in the world, to the Financial Times online direct via the FT‘s website, FT.com. The Financial Times is the world's premier newspaper for business and economics. The FT.com can be accessed on campus direct to ht…

The David Williams Building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter weekend from Friday 30 March to Monday 2 April inclusive. The Facility will re-open at 9am on Tuesday 3 April.

Due to electrical testing in the David Williams Building (Faculty of Law) on Saturday 24 March, it is necessary to close the entire facility.  On this date, the Faculty and Squire Law Library will be closed. The facilities will re-open at 9am on Monday 26 March.  Apologies for any inconvenience.

Trial access is now enabled to the full text version of EBSCO Criminal Justice Abstracts on or off campus.  The trial runs until Friday 16th February 2018.  Criminal Justice Abstracts with full text contains more than 560,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for more than 320 f…

The Squire Law Library winter vacation opening hours will be as follows: 1-5 December Monday - Friday: 9am - 9pm Saturday: 9am - 6pm Sunday: Closed 6-20 December Monday - Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 1pm Sunday: Closed 21 December Thursday 21 December: 9am - 5pm 22 December Friday 22 December: 9-12noon 23 December - 1 January The Squi…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce a further entry to the Eminent Scholars Archive: Sir John Laws. Sir John Grant Laws was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2016-17. He was interviewed on 15 June 2017 at the Goodhart Lodge on Trumpington Road. Sir John came to Cambridge …

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that access is now available to the Private International Law (PRIL) ebook module on the Oxford Legal Research Library platform. The module brings together key reference works in private international law and is an valuable resource for practitioners and scholars researching in the field. It contains 18…

The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place from Monday 11th to Saturday 16th September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed, though readers with swipe card access and those researchers with special permission to use the library will be able to gain entry. The Law Faculty building will be open from 9am …

We are pleased to announce our recent electronic subscription to Münchener Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch [BGB]. In the past, the Squire has held the print version.  This major commentary provides scholarly interpretation and analysis of the German Civil Code. The service is available to users on the University network by IP address. Access …

Squire Law Librarian Mr David Wills has been awarded the Life Membership award by the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) at the Association's annual conference dinner which took place at the Principal Manchester hotel on Friday. Life Membership is awarded to current members of BIALL who have had distinguished careers within law l…