Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1994-1998 (Creation)
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9 boxes
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Name of creator
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.
Repository
Archival history
GB 1697 A.RLEP 1994-1998 Sub-fonds of Records of Legal Education Archives 9 boxes Records of Legal Education Project
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.
The records were produced during the conducting of the Project.
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.
The records were appraised and listed by the Co-ordinator of the Records of Legal Education project in 1998.
Further accruals of individual record collection files are expected.
Arranged in series as in Scope and Content.
Open
Copyright declaration form to be completed.
English
Detailed catalogue available at the IALS and on-line at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/archives/rlep.htm
Compiled by Annabel Dodds for the RSLP AIM25 Project. 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. Aug 2000 Archive development Archive finding aids Archive management Archive planning Archive records Cowling , Clare , fl 1994-1998 , archivist Institute of Advanced Legal Studies , Records of Legal Education Project x Records of Legal Education Project Legal education Vocational education
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The records were produced during the conducting of the Project.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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.
System of arrangement
Arranged in series as in Scope and Content.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright declaration form to be completed.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Detailed catalogue available at the IALS and on-line at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/archives/rlep.htm
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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.
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Language(s)
- English