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The Archive of the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools consists of agenda, minutes and papers of the Committee, 1974-2000; papers of the Chairman, Professor William Twining, and Secretary of the CHULS Working Party on Four Year Degrees, 1978-1980; papers of the Convenor, Professor William Twining, of the CHULS Working Party on Implications for Law as a Discipline of the Leverhulme Report and the Circular Letter from the Chairman of the University Grants Committee, Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, 1983-1984; correspondence and papers of Professor Graham John Zellick, CHULS Chairman, 1988-1990; file on CHULS' participation in the Law Society's Academic Consultative Committee, 1990.

Papers of Ruth Deech, Principal, St Anne's College Oxford and a member of the Inquiry team, relating to the Committee of Inquiry into Equal Opportunities at the Inns of Court School of Law, chaired by Dame Jocelyn Barrow (Barrow Inquiry), 1989-1994. The records do not comprise the official papers of the Inquiry, which are held elsewhere, and do not form a complete set, but they do include the bulk of the material. Most secondary source material collected during the Inquiry, such as information comparing the BVC with other jurisdictions, is not included in the papers but is listed in the Final Report of the Committee. The records consist of terms of reference and background to Inquiry, 1993-1994; direct observations of teaching and assessment, 1993; background information collected by the Inquiry, 1992-1993; information on admissions policy and procedures, 1991-1994; student questionnaire, 1993; information on assessment and review, 1990-1993; information on course content, 1990-1992; documents relating to staff training, 1992-1993; documents relating to student welfare, 1989-1994; collection and analysis of teaching materials, such as course outlines, practical training exercises, instructors' teaching packs, ICSL manuals, and printed material, 1990-1993; consideration of complaints of individual students, 1993; Interim Report of the Committee of Inquiry, 1993; CLE/ICSL response to the Interim Report, [1993]; Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry, 1994.

Historical files, 1934-1995, of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), comprising compilations of events of interest in the history of the Institute, including background papers to its establishment, opening ceremonies, policy statements and press cuttings. The papers include a report of the Legal Education Committee, 1934; letters to Lord Macmillan about the Institute from David Hughes Parry, Director of the Institute, and K Howard Drake, Secretary of the Institute, 1934-1952; press cuttings about the Institute, 1934-1986; policy statements of the Institute, 1948-1955, including a statement of development policy, 1950, a legal research policy, 1954, and a joint IALS and School of Oriental and African Studies memorandum of agreement on Library policy, 1951; working papers, such as guest lists, speeches, press cuttings, correspondence and agenda, relating to the opening ceremony of the IALS, 1948; first IALS Prospectus, 1948; second IALS Annual Report, 1948-1949; records relating to the opening of the Nuffield Library, 1950; papers relating to the opening of Charles Clore House [Russell Square], 1976-1979; papers relating to the visit of HRH the Princess Anne, Chancellor, 1986; Academic Secretary's papers relating to the academic future of IALS, 1990-1995, including a proposal to create a Chair of Legal Education at the Institute, 1992; Academic Secretary's papers relating to the publications of IALS histories, 1995, comprising W A Steiner's draft history of IALS, and Mrs Barbara Steiner's reminiscences of early days at IALS; Academic Secretary's collection of obituaries, press cuttings and papers on Muriel Anderson, 1991, Norman Anderson, 1994, and Erwin Griswold, 1995.