Other Libraries

There is no departmental library in law, the central law library function being fulfilled by the Bodleian Law Library. However most colleges (and all that admit law students on taught courses) have their own working law collections, many of these housed in separate college law libraries. In general college law libraries are open only to members of the college in question, but special arrangements can often be made to use works not available elsewhere.

The Codrington Library of All Souls College generously admits law students from all colleges on the recommendation of their tutors. The Codrington has a sizeable law collection including many periodicals not held in other college law libraries. It also has a lovely reading room.

Oxford is rich in library resources and has numerous libraries in other disciplines (philosophy, politics, economics, history, sociology) with holdings of interest and importance to law students and researchers.  Many of these libraries, together with the Bodleian Library, form the Oxford University Library Services and are available to everyone with a University member’s card and to other researchers on application.

Oxford University libraries homepage
List of Oxford libraries, including college libraries, with access policies
Bodleian Law Library
Codrington library homepage
Criminology & Socio-legal Studies (Social Sciences Library)
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