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The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Sir John Hamilton Baker, Emeritus Downing Professor of the Laws of England, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Baker was interviewed in the Squire Law Library on three occasions between February and March 2017, and in addition to transcrip…

For the first time, the Squire Law Library will be opening on Sundays during this Easter Term. On these days the opening hours will be from 11am until 5pm starting this Sunday (30th April) and continuing until, and including, Sunday (11th June). This is a pilot initiative to assess how useful these extended hours are during the revision and examina…

The Faculty of Law has once again been placed first amongst UK law schools in the latest table published by the Complete University Guide. The table, compiled by Mayfield University Consultants, ranks universities based on the quality factors considered most important to students. It uses data from a broad range of sources including the Higher Educ…

The Faculty building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter Bank Holiday from Friday, 14 April to Monday 17 April inclusive. The building will re-open on Tuesday 18 April at 9am.

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that it has taken out a twelve month trial subscription to Bloomsbury Professional Online. The service includes access to practitioner ebooks on family law, banking and finance law, charities, criminal negligence, company and commercial law, employment law, environmental law, insolvency law, local gover…

The Squire Library is pleased to announce the recent purchase of the Hart ebook Collection which is now available on the Bloomsbury Collections site. Coverage includes an archive and monograph ebook Collections from 2014-2017. As part of a co-publishing deal, some titles are also available from Beck Publishing and NOMOS Publishing in Germany. All o…

It is with great sorrow that those of us at the Squire Law Library who knew him, learnt of the death of Sir Elihu Lauterpacht on Wednesday. Sir Eli was a good friend of the Squire, who over the years played an important role in its development, particularly in the field of International Law. Eli was generous and warm-hearted, attracting many friend…

The Squire Library has recently taken a subscription to Manupatra. This is a leading service for Indian Law. Content includes Cases Supreme Court cases from 1950 onwards; High Court judgments of all States (dates vary); Judgments from Tribunals and Commissions (dates vary); Selected judgments from the High Courts, Federal Court and Privy Council f…

We are pleased to announce that the Squire Library now subscribes to the Brill International Law ebooks package. This service provides access to 207 books published between 2014 and 2017. Further 2017 titles will become available when published. The Brill International Law Collections are now accessible by searching for individual titles through iD…

Due to essential maintenance work to the mains water feed to the Sidgwick Site which is taking place this Saturday (7 January), the Faculty of Law and the Squire Law Library will need to be closed on that day. The building opens again for normal hours on Monday 9 January.

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed from Friday 23 December at 12.30pm for the Christmas and New Year break. The Faculty and Library will re-open at 9am on Tuesday 3 January 2017.

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Emeritus Professor Cheryl Saunders has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Saunders was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2005-06. She was visiting the Faculty to attend the recent 2016 Public Law Con…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that a further entry for Professor A. T. H. "Tony" Smith has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Smith was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2015-16. He is currently Professor of Law at Victoria University in Wellingto…

The building of the Faculty of Law has become the David Williams Building. To commemorate the naming of the building in honour of the late Professor Sir David Williams a plaque was unveiled by Lady Williams at a ceremony on 15th October. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, presided at the ceremony, which was attended by members of the Will…

The Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 29 August. We will re-open on Tuesday 30 August at 9am.