Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

🦋 BANK HOLIDAY OPENING HOURS 🦋

IALS Library opening hours will be open on Monday 25th May, from 10:00 - 20:30.

📖 Current library card holders only. No library staff will be available on these days.

📖 The library will reopen at 09:00 on Tuesday 26th May.

📚Share your favourite authors and their books.

At the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library, we are taking this opportunity to learn more about our members' reading interests. As part of a new initiative, we are beginning to develop a legal fiction collection and we would greatly value your input!

👉 Recommend a book https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/UnSgA9CVKZ

📋The IALS Library Reader Satisfaction Survey for 2026 is now open to all our library members. Have your say and make a difference. The survey is running through April and May. Past suggestions we've implemented include,

✅ A dedicated, multi-faith quiet space located on the ground floor.
✅ Sound proof carrels for private calls and meetings.
✅ Lockers located on the 2nd floor opposite our Admissions desk.
✅ Improved accessibility information.

👉 Reader satisfaction survey: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/mseTGyWfLY

📝NEW BLOG POST!

Read Dr Toni Lester's post on the "Colonial Legacies of Intellectual Property" conference, held in January at the IALS. Dr Lester is a governing board member of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property and former Visiting Scholar to IALS.

Read the full post here at 👇

🔗 https://ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/ials-2026-colonial-legacies-intellectual-property-conference-great-success

Join us tonight at the IALS for 'In Media Lex: Authority and the Mechanization of Judgment in the 19th Century', with Xavier Nueno (EPFL)

📅 10/03/2026
🕒 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
📍 IALS Conference Room

All welcome - this event is free to attend but booking is required 👇

Xavier Nueno, In Media Lex: Authority and the Mechanization of Judgment in the 19th Century

📚The IALS Annual Review for 2025 is now available to download or read online.

Available here 👇

https://ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/news/ials-annual-review-2025-now-available

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⭐ Call for Papers: Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums - Glasgow and Belfast Workshops ⭐

We are delighted to share the first two CFPs for the Four Nations Law and the Humanities programme. This initiative supports UK based early career scholars working at any intersection of Law and the Humanities, including research connecting law with history, philosophy, literature, art, performance, linguistics, cultural and media studies, creative practice, and other humanistically informed approaches.

Between May and July 2026, the programme will host a series of workshops across the UK, each featuring invited senior commentators and a dedicated networking framework.

📍 Workshop 1 - University of Glasgow
🗓 21 May 2026
📅 Deadline: 13 March 2026
➡️ Download the Glasgow CFP

https://ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/CfP%20LHub%20Four%20Nations%20Law%20and%20Humanities%20Glasgow%20Workshop.pdf

📍 Workshop 2 - Queen’s University Belfast
🗓 25 June 2026
📅 Deadline: 13 March 2026
➡️ Download the Belfast CFP

https://ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/CfP%20LHub%20Four%20Nations%20Law%20and%20Humanities%20Belfast%20Workshop.pdf

🔗 More information about the programme is available

https://ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhub/four-nations-law-humanities-forums

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🔔For February 14th, a new blog post in our series 'From the Stacks', blog posts by the IALS Library Graduate Trainees.

"The History of Loving: Delving into US Anti-Miscegenation Law", takes a look into the historical precedents surrounding Loving v. Virginia (1967) — the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down laws banning in*******al marriage.

👉 Read it here at : https://ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/history-loving-delving-us-anti-miscegenation-law



(image: Richard and Mildred Loving 1967 by UPI. Attribution: United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Struggling to find or access library resources? Worried about your OSCOLA citations? IALS librarians are here to help! Booking is now open for one-to-one advice appointments: https://buff.ly/3W7CkwH

Season's Greetings from all at IALS!🎄

We will be closing for the Christmas break at 17:00 on Tuesday 23rd December, and reopening at 9:00 on Monday 5th January.

Wishing you a peaceful break and we look forward to welcoming you back in 2026!