Archive for the ‘Donations’ Category

05May

Latest donations reach Ethiopia’s Hawassa University and Dilla University

In July 2020, the ILBF was able to ship 51 boxes containing 404 excellent legal texts to Hawassa University and Dilla University in Ethiopia, thanks to a generous donation from Thomson Reuters. Despite the constraints of Covid-19, the Thomson Reuters warehouse team put in a huge effort to make sure the books were packed and […]
23Apr

Declutter and do good!

As coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease gradually across the UK, why not take a little time to tidy your law library bookshelves? By donating your spare legal texts to the ILBF, you can share essential legal knowledge and connect with colleagues across the world.  Access to legal texts and resources is taken for granted in the […]
17Dec

Support the ILBF this festive season with Amazon Smile!

With the festive season fast approaching, many of us will be doing last-minute Christmas shopping! If you are shopping online with Amazon, please do so through the Amazon Smile website and select the International Law Book Facility as your chosen charity. The ILBF will receive 0.5% of all eligible purchases in donations when you shop through smile.amazon.co.uk. The […]
18Nov

University of Surrey and University of Law Guildford collaborate in support of the ILBF

The School of Law at the University of Surrey is joining together with the Guildford Campus of the University of Law to support the ILBF. The student-led initiative will be co-ordinated by Katy Peters (Director of Employability for the School of Law at the University of Surrey) and Helen Carter (Programme and Student Lead for the […]
25Aug

Professor Hugh Thirlway’s legacy lives on in the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

The ILBF receives donations of law texts from across the legal profession—everything from single volumes from students, to complete sets of law reports from retiring judges, and scores of practitioner texts from law firms, chambers, courts, and legal publishers. We value every single donation. It is however very rare for an entire library of books, […]
12Dec

ILBF ships 400 books to Iraq

The ILBF has been working with the British Embassy in Iraq and the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council to arrange the shipment of legal textbooks from a number of donor organisations, to support legal education in Iraq, particularly for universities whose collections were destroyed by Da’esh. The first shipment arrived in November 2019. The ILBF is […]