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Law libraries in London

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies| 
Major legal research library. Available to all LSE postgraduates and staff.

King's College|
University College London|
SOAS|
Queen Mary College|

More details on Using other libraries|.

Finding books in other libraries

COPAC| - find books located in the major UK university research libraries.

Interlending and Document Delivery (IDD|)  for books and journal articles that you cannot get to easily yourself.
Select "Requests and inter-lending" on the Library Catalogue.

Law books

Library Catalogue

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Arrangement of the collections

  • Course Collection (ground floor) - multiple copies of essential course texts. Many of the current editions of legal textbooks will be in the Course Collection.
  • First floor - law books and law reports (shelved by jurisdiction followed by subject) and law journals shelved alphabetically.  
  • English Law  (classmarks beginning KD) - statutes, statutory instruments, general law reports and digests are at the start of the KD sequence in that order.
  • Useful classmarks for law include:
Subject Classmark
Companies, Bankruptcy, Regulation, Monopolies KD2040 to KD2220
Comparative law K540 to K5570
Conflict of laws K7051 to K7690
Courts, procedure, evidence (UK) KD6850 to KD7640
Criminal law/procedure (UK) KD7850 to KD8464
European comparative law KJC
European human rights KJC
EC law KJE
International Court of Justice JX1971.6
International law & International Relations JX/JZ/KZ
Jurisprudence K237 to K487
Labour law (UK) KD3001 to KD3177
Law Reports (UK, general) KD190 to KD300
Law of the sea JX4408 to JX4449
Law of the United Kingdom KD125 to KD8464
Law of war JX4505 to JX5397
Revenue/Taxation (UK) KD5320 to KD5694
Treaties JX120 to JX1195
UK legislation KD125 to KD180
United Nations JX 1976-7
United States KF

Full list of the classmarks used for law, see Library of Congress classmarks|
To see what the Library aims to collect, please see our Collection Development Policy for Law|.

E-books

Access e-books with your username and password.

Law e-books collections: 

Westlaw UK| - Select 'Commentary' for all titles including the White Book (Civil Procedure) and Archbold.

Oxford Scholarship Online| - OUP titles

MyiLibrary| - Selection of titles from reading lists

British Tax Library| - Commentary, legislation and case law from 1875.

HeinOnline|'s Legal Classics collection of over 1,200 works.

Intelex Past Masters| - Classic texts e.g. Hegel, Kant

KluwerArbitration.com| - Books, journals and documents for international commercial arbitration.

SourceOECD| - All OECD publications since 1998.


Related subjects

Subject guides|, for example

Accounting and Finance
Bioscience & Health|
Economics
European Union|
Government|
Sociology
Government and Intergovernmental Publications Collection|