page_title: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / Library / Collections
caption_attribution_description: English: University of London School of Advanced Study History Day 2019
context_page_description: The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is a member institute of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Founded in 1947, it is a national academic centre of excellence, serving the legal community and universities across the United Kingdom and the world through legal scholarship, facilities, and its comparative law library.
  The mission of the Institute is to be "the focal point of legal research for the United Kingdom and the countries of the British Commonwealth."
  Since 1976, the Institute’s home has been Charles Clore House, located in the heart of Bloomsbury, at 17 Russell Square.
context_section_description: The IALS library holds a collection of over 300,000 legal texts, complemented by over 3,000 current serial titles, reports, and legislative materials.   It has been described as the "jewel in the Institute’s crown", and is a repository library for legal texts published in the United Kingdom.   The library covers five floors of Charles Clore House with the library entrance on the fourth floor.   The library catalogue forms part of a shared catalogue with its fellow School of Advanced Study institutes and that of Senate House Library.
  The Institute library is considered one of the world’s leading comparative research libraries, holding significant material not otherwise available in the United Kingdom.    Jurisdictions covered include countries in, North America,  Latin America, Europe (including the European Union) and the Commonwealth.   The library is particularly strong in Public International Law.  It has a large collection of United States Federal resources and holdings of State primary resources, focused on California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Louisiana. Postgraduate law students of the University of London colleges, including University College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London, and Queen Mary, University of London rely exclusively on the Institute's research holdings for coursework.
caption: The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the Senate House History Day, 2019.
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