IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1697 A.RLEP
Held at: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Title: Records of Legal Education Project Archive
Date(s): 1994-1998
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 9 boxes
Name of creator(s): Records of Legal Education Project
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Records of Legal Education Project (RLEP), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, ran from October 1994 to May 1998. It was based at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), and its brief was to: investigate records of legal education housed in selected institutions, primarily in the Greater London area, and report on their availability, accessibility and significance; create a Guide to Records of Legal Education and Law Schools to enable researchers to trace the location of documents of relevance; publish and disseminate its findings to assist researchers in law, the humanities and the social sciences; exceptionally, collect, maintain and make available for research records of legal education where the creating/controlling agency was unable to make any alternative archival provision. This material was placed in a Records of Legal Education Archives located in the IALS Library. Research was concentrated on institutions and records in the Greater London area, since this is a) where the highest proportion of legal education material was to be found; b) where the project was physically located. The project's resources were too limited to go further afield. The project was co-ordinated by Clare Cowling, an Archivist employed on a part-time basis, under the direction of an Advisory Committee comprising Jules Winterton, the IALS Librarian, Avrom Sherr, Woolf Professor of Legal Education at IALS, David Sugarman, Professor of Law at the University of Lancaster and William Twining, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London until 1998. The Project was based in the IALS Library and was granted use of its facilities.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The Archive of the Records of Legal Education Project comprise the entire administrative and research archive of the Co-ordinator, and consist of administrative records, 1994-1998; correspondence files, 1994-1998; progress reports, 1994-1998; background papers on legal education, 1994-1998; papers relating to the Guide to Records of Legal Education and Law Schools, 1994-1998; records relating to the publicising of the Project and its findings, 1994-1998; Records of Legal Education Archives, policy files, 1994-1998; Records of Legal Education Archives, individual record collection files, 1994-1998.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in series as in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright declaration form to be completed.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue available at the IALS and on-line at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/archives/rlep.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
The records were appraised and listed by the Co-ordinator of the Records of Legal Education project in 1998.
Accruals:
Further accruals of individual record collection files are expected.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were produced during the conducting of the Project.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Annabel Dodds for the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2000