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Archival Sources for Legal Biography at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Elizabeth Dawson
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Abstract

Elizabeth Dawson's article outlines archival sources for legal biography held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, focussing on primary sources of information on individuals, including the Law Society and Bar Examination results. It also summarises additional sources which provide biographical information on legal practitioners and scholars eg. the archives of The Society of Legal Scholars and the Council of Legal Education, IALS institutional archives, The Bar Council, The International Law Association and academic membership associations. The article also provides guidance to researchers on using the IALS Archive, and advice on using related external archival sources.

Keywords

legal biographyarchivesresearch methods
Type
Legal Biography
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 48 - 53
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnote

1 Cocks, R and Cownie, F (2009) A Great and Noble Profession: The History of The Society of Legal Scholars. Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2009Google Scholar.