TWINING, Professor William L (b 1934) Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1697 A.TWIN
Held at	: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/archives ›
Full title	: TWINING, Professor William L (b 1934) Papers
Date(s)	: 1961-2006
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of Records of Legal Education Archives View parent record
Extent	: 28 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Twining | William Lawrence | b 1934 | Professor of Jurisprudence
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Lawrence Twining (b 1934) has had a long and distinguished career in law teaching and has been involved in many projects relating to legal education. He was educated at Charterhouse School, Brasenose College, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. He has been Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Khartoum (1958-1961), Senior Lecturer in Law at University College, Dar-es-Salaam (1961-1965), Professor of Jurisprudence at the Queen's University, Belfast (1965-1972) and Professor of Law at the University of Warwick (1972-1982). From 1983-1996 he was the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. Other activities have included membership of the Committee on Legal Education in Northern Ireland (1972-1974), presidency of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (1978-1979) and of the UK Society for Legal and Social Philosophy (1980-1983), chairmanship of the Bentham Committee (1982-) and of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (1983-1993).

Publications: How to do things with rules with David Miers (1976); editor of Law publishing and legal information: small jurisdictions of the British Isles with Jennifer Uglow (1981); Theories of evidence: Bentham and Wigmore (c1985); editor of Legal theory and common law (1986); editor of Essays on Kelsen with Richard Tur (1986); editor of Learning lawyers' skills with Neil Gold and Karl Mackie (1989); editor of Access to legal education and the legal profession with Rajeev Dhavan and Neil Kibble (1989); Rethinking evidence: exploratory essays (1990); editor of Issues of self-determination (1991); Analysis of evidence: how to do things with facts with Terence Anderson (1991); editor of Evidence and proof with Alex Stein (1992); joint editor of Legal Records in the Commonwealth with Emma Varnden Quick (Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1994); Blackstone's tower: the English law school (1994); Law in context: enlarging a discipline (1997); edited the Law in Context series and the Jurists' series.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to Prof Twining's work for specific professional bodies and to research projects, predominantly focussed on the areas of the history of legal education and the teaching of legal education.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

There was no discernible original order across the successive deposits of material. Therefore, in order to give an overview of career and research interests and to support future accruals, the material has been sorted into three broad series relating to general academic career (TWIN/01), organisations and boards on which Prof Twining sat (TWIN/02); and research work (TWIN/03). Third party articles and publications deposited have been retained as (TWIN/04). Within these series, the material has been sorted chronologically in order to give a sense of chronological development.

Conditions governing access:

Open for research.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright declaration form to be completed.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available at the IALS and on-line at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/archives/twin.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first deposit of records was received from Professor Twining 1995 and 1997 as part of the Records of Legal Education project. These papers related the Law in Context series, Laws In London project and the review of the University of London LLM course, as well as papers relating to the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, the Society of Public Teachers of the Law (later SLS) and of the Commonwealth Legal Records Project. In March 2013, a second deposit of records was made via Professor Fiona Cownie who sorted, appraised and identified the material, prior to its transfer to IALS.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Material deposited by Prof Twining between 1995 and 1997 which was accumulated and created by him as an officer of a specific organisation or group was catalogued as part of the relevant collections: papers of W L Twining as Convenor of the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools working party on implications for law as a discipline of the Leverhulme Report, 1983-1984 (Ref: A.CHULS 3); papers of Twining as an officer of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, 1977-1994 (Ref: A.CLEA 2); papers of Twining as an officer of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, 1965-1985 (Ref: A.SPTL); administrative papers of Twining as Supervisor of the Commonwealth Legal Records Project (Ref: A.CLRP).

Some of Professor Twining's papers relating to law teaching in Dar-es-Salaam will be found in Rhodes House Library (ref: MSS Afr s 1825 811 (115)). The Eagle Star Centre, Cheltenham, England, hold some editorial papers of Twining. The official papers of the University of London's 1992-1993 LLM Review are held at the University of London Archives.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: British Library on-line public access catalogue 1997; UK National Register of Archives. Compiled by Annabel Dodds for RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Original description Aug 2000; revised May 2016 following subsequent cataloguing project completed in 2015.