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Opening Hours
We will close for the Christmas vacation on Friday 20 December at 2pm and reopen on Monday 6 January at 9am. The opening hours of all four Inns of Court over the Christmas vacation can be viewed on our website. We wish everyone a happy holiday and see you in 2025.
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Our Famous Mini-Book Decorations are Back for 2024!
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The legal profession’s must have Christmas tree decorations are available NOW! Pick one up from the Library or, if you are based outside of London, we can post one to you (just get in touch with us).
The Library elves have been busy making new titles and editions including:
- White Book 2024
- Archbold 2025
- Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2025
- Family Court Practice 2024
- Tolley's Yellow & Orange Tax Handbooks 2024-25
- Halsbury's Law of England
- and more...
We also welcome suggestions for titles and editions.
Tag us in your photos of your books on your trees! Links to our social media accounts can be found at the bottom of this Newsletter.
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In September, we also published a short article in Counsel magazine's Bar Student Guide 2024 with 10 quick yet essential tips for conducting efficient, detailed legal research (with a bonus 5 tips on using databases!).
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‘First (might I chuse) I would be bound to wipe, / Where he discharged last his Glister-pipe’: Waste paper, bookbinding, and the literary imagination in early modern England.
This short article uses some of the unseen treasures in the Library's collection of rare books and manuscripts to investigate how the pages that were torn from books or thrown aside at the print shop were reshaped, recycled, and reused in the bindings of other books, in the early modern period. What function did this serve? And how did the writers of the time respond to the recycling of the works of both their predecessors and contemporaries? |
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Using AI Safely in Legal Research
In September, our Assistant Librarian published a short article in Counsel magazine on the potential benefits, pitfalls, and issues encounted when using Generative AI tools in legal research. 'Using AI Safely in Legal Research' explores some of the main risks that individuals may encounter when employing something like ChatGPT, Copilot, or a legal publisher's own GenAI tool, in your research, and the best ways you can minimise these possibilities.
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Environmental Law: Regulation and the Right to Protest
For this lecture in the Social Context of the Law series, we put together an online, interactive reading list of free and paid-for resources that were cited in, or that augment, the speakers' discussion of of climate protest and regulation. It features links to current and/or influential case law and legislation, articles, reports, books, and podcasts, lots of which are available to look at in the Library.
To catch up on the lecture itself, you can watch the recording on YouTube.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC SKILLS DAY
In November, the Librarian attended the Bibliographical Skills Workshop. This will further inform how we approach, assess, and display our own collection of early printed books. Learn more. |
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STUDENT INDUCTION
On 10 September the Library organised a Whodunnit-style induction for new students. Students had to follow clues around the Library to try and work out what had happened to the unconscious librarian.
Read more. |
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The Inner Temple Book Prize 2025 has now launched. It is a triennial competition with two Prizes for 'outstanding authorship': a Main Author prize and a New Author prize. See the Inn's website for more information.
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The Inner Temple Library and Archives organised a stall at History Day, which was first held as a way for “libraries to present what they do to a wider audience, with the aim of helping researchers realise what is available and how to conduct research.” Read more. |
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HISTORY SOCIETY LECTURE: THE WINDING STAIR
Louise Guyat (Archives Volunteer) provides a summary of the talk, which was held both in-person and online. To hear in more detail about this fascinating feud, a recording of the lecture is also available. |
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