Archive for the ‘Volunteers’ Category

05Sep

Grand summary: ILBF law undergraduate essay competition 2025 

In May 2025, we announced the winner of our law undergraduate essay competition 2025.   With the ILBF celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and reflecting on past achievements in support of the rule of law and access to justice worldwide, this year’s essay competition asked entrants to look to the future and consider the question:   ‘What will […]

Posted by Holly Nankivell in 20 Anniversary, Competition, Partners, Rule of Law, Trustees, Volunteers

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23Jan

Supporting Ukraine

Over 700 law books have now arrived at the West Ukrainian National University in Ternopil. This is part of an important initiative by the European Law Institute led by Fryderyk Zoll, Professor at Jagiellonian University and Osnabrück University to contribute to a new European Law Library at the West Ukrainian National University. The purpose of […]

Posted by Holly Nankivell in 20 Anniversary, Recipients, Shipping News, Volunteers

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19Dec

2024 in review

2024 has been a very busy year! We have shipped 595 boxes of books to 21 organisations in 15 countries and on four continents. Throughout the year we have had fantastic support from our partners, as well as law firms, barristers’ chambers, in-house lawyers, the courts, law students, legal publishers and law librarians. Huge thanks […]

Posted by Barbora Kozusnikova in 20 Anniversary, Awards, Donations, Recipients, Shipping News, Trustees, Volunteers

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03Jan

2023 in review

In 2023 we shipped 600 boxes of books to 19 organisations in 12 countries – that’s about 5,500 books. We worked with law students, lawyers, in-house legal teams, publishers and law librarians to sort and pack valuable legal textbooks. University of Surrey law students Jodie-Lee Boyle and Elaf Hamid made a considerable impact as shipping […]

Posted by Katrina Crossley in Annual Report, Recipients, Shipping News, Trustees, Volunteers

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12Apr

Bolivia: Attorney General’s office

The ILBF’s first ever shipment to Bolivia succeeded because of an exceptional collaboration with multiple partners. Sea freight is generally more economical and arguably less carbon emitting than air freight, but it is not without its challenges, especially when the ultimate destination is land-locked like Bolivia. The ILBF was delighted to receive an application for […]

Posted by Barbora Kozusnikova in Donations, Recipients, Shipping News, Volunteers

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12May

Nottingham University JLAP introduce their law library

The students at the University of Nottingham JLAP group made a film about their law library and what it means to them. In the film, they also interview Tony Simmonds, Senior Research Librarian.   The law students, led by Belinda Ke Lim, made the film for the recent training event for law librarians in Sierra Leone, […]

Posted by Mikaela Kritikou in Films, Volunteers

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