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IALS Library is one of the world's leading comparative law research libraries. This guide covers our foreign, comparative and international law holdings only, but IALS also has excellent collections covering all parts of the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies, a large jurisprudence collection and more. For an overview of the entire collection, and the library's Collection and Retention Policy, see Finding IALS Collections and Resources.
What do we have?
Library Search (the online catalogue) lists our holdings, from the oldest printed treatises to the latest e-books and e-journals.
To find all printed material for a particular jurisdiction, look up the jurisdictional classmark here, then use Advanced Search to search by classmark.
For an overview of our holdings for a particular area of the world, for comparative law, or for international law, use the tabs above.
Finding your way
For maps of the reading rooms and an overview of classmarks, see Classmarks and the Location of Resources in the Library. There are also lists of our collections and their locations on the walls by the library stairs and lift.
Online resources
IALS Library subscribes to a large number of databases and thousands of individual e-journals and e-books. For databases, see our Law Databases page; for individual e-journals, e-books and online journal articles, see Library Search.
