Archive for the ‘Recipients’ 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 […]
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, […]
10Mar

ILBF and ROLE UK partner to send books to the MoJ Library in Niger State

The ILBF recently worked with ROLE UK to deliver 90 boxes of books to the Ministry of Justice in Niger State, Nigeria, which arrived in January 2020. ROLE UK supports sustainable partnerships between the UK legal sector and governments, lawyers, professional bodies and organisations in developing countries, to help strengthen the rule of law and […]
16Feb

Global collaboration delivers ILBF shipment to lawyers in the DRC

This shipment was the result of a truly global collaboration, with contributions across the legal sector playing a vital role to help secure essential legal texts and resources for the Central Kasaï Bar Association in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Nigel Roberts at LexisNexis US first connected Jacqueline Scott of the Union Internationale des […]
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 […]
19Aug

The ILBF is ready for your vacation donations!

While many UK courts are in recess, and with the summer weather in retreat, it’s a perfect opportunity to take stock of your law library bookshelves. By donating your spare legal texts to the ILBF, you can share essential legal knowledge and connect with judicial colleagues across the world.   Access to legal texts and resources […]