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Struggling to cite your sources using OSCOLA? Join our training sessions and we'll explain how to cite everything from legislation to websites. Book here: buff.ly/ccOnUCN

Note: For citing dreams, we'd suggest you follow guidance on personal communications on p.43 of the OSCOLA manual 😉
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Feeling confused? Join us for our legal research training sessions to help you get to grips with the library, finding resources, and using databases. See the full schedule and book a place: buff.ly/O25yFnZ
October 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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From Monday 29th September, we will return to our term time opening hours. See full details of our opening hours here: ials.sas.ac.uk/library-term...
September 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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LHub has published a number of calls for 2025/26, including for visiting academics at different career levels, visiting artists, networks, and more.

Details, deadlines and application forms are here at: ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhu...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Our now! Our latest issue of Amicus Curiae, series 2, vol 6, issue 3. Edited by Pablo Cortés, Professor of Civil Justice, University of Leicester with a special section on ESG regulation, guest-edited by Dr Navajyoti Samanta.

Read it here:

journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/index
July 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A reminder that our summer opening hours start from today! 🌞 From now until September, we'll be closing earlier on weekdays and Saturdays, and we are closed on Sundays.
June 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Join us here at the IALS on 10th June 2025 for the next event in the LHub Seminar Series, 'Digitising Exclusion: Identity, Citizenship and RightsLogged'.

Speaker: Dr Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf, @ihr.bsky.social‬ , School of Advanced Study, University of london

ials.sas.ac.uk/events/dr-ev...
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June 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Join us at ‪@ials.bsky.social‬ on 30 May 2025 at 1:30pm for 'What is an arrest? A performance-as-research legal history workshop'.

Organised by, Dr Jonah Miller, @kingscollege.bsky.social‬ and Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke @sheffielduni.bsky.social‬

Booking recommended

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May 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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New date added! 📅 One more chance to Get Dissertation Ready with our afternoon of training sessions on finding sources, referencing with OSCOLA, and formatting with Word. Held online via Zoom on 29th May at 1pm. Book your place now: buff.ly/kCCQ56q
May 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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How are we doing? Let us know what you think and help us to improve our services by taking part in the IALS library annual reader satisfaction survey. All named entries will be automatically entered into a £50 prize draw! 👉 buff.ly/8IHm7dg
April 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Not long until the Easter weekend! Here are our opening times over the bank holiday period for your calendar 🐰🐣
April 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Registration is now open for the Humanities Summits 2025! Join a vital discussion about the future of the humanities with colleagues from across the UK. Manchester 15 May, and London 22 May. Free to all but booking is essential. Register now: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Starting to panic about your dissertation? Don't worry! Get Dissertation Ready with our training session on finding sources, referencing with OSCOLA, and formatting with Word. First session on Fri 7th March, book your place now: https://buff.ly/3CNsQ35
February 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Read the latest blog post in our series 'A Look at the Archives'. This month IALS archivist Clare Cowling looks at our records on legal education in Africa and of individual Africans in the UK.

Read it here at: https://buff.ly/3CdcoJf

#archives #africa #legaleducation
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January 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Need help with your research? Booking is now open for one-to-one advice appointments with an IALS librarian: https://buff.ly/3W7CkwH
January 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Read the latest blog post by @ials_law FIL Librarian Hester Swift, on the rights of indigenous peoples in Europe. Read it here at: https://buff.ly/3OWCHpF

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January 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Check out our brand new Library of Things, equipped with a range of items to help you adapt the library spaces to your needs. Find out more: https://buff.ly/3ZKCQTx
December 9, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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LHub, a new hub of Law and the Humanities at the @ials_law, is up and running, with a digital box for collaborative initiatives, events, and openness to creativity. Join the mailing list and get involved!

Mailing list: https://buff.ly/4g83sTO

LHub: https://buff.ly/4fJL1EZ
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December 2, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Do Lawyers like Shakespeare?
Are modern law schools still a place to speak and to hear both sides of every point of view? Prof Gary Watt takes us back to Shakespeare’s schoolroom and invites Shakespeare into the modern school of law on 2 December at 6pm, 15 minutes. All welcome!
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November 28, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Shakespeare’s grammar school gave the future poet a remarkable education in the rhetorical arts of performance and debate. It was in effect an excellent law school. Join us at Russell Square on 2 December at 6pm 👇
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November 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Say what? Come join @ials_law LHub and discover on 2nd December 👇
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November 26, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Got 15 minutes? Let Professor Gary Watt say more in a popup talk organised by @ials_law LHub. 👇

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November 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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We're very happily a bee library.
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November 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Interested in sustainability in Universities? The UoL Sustainability Team need you! Take part in the SOS-UK Sustainability Skills Annual Survey, There's also a chance of winning prize of £500. Open to all students. Take the survey here 👇

https://buff.ly/3UDsG3Y
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November 7, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Interested in research skills training? 📖 Read our new blog post by IALS Access Librarian Katie Radford on research skills training. Read it here at: https://buff.ly/3BTNMVg

Our training is open to all IALS library academic members.

#training
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October 21, 2024 at 2:30 PM