Scope of the Collections UK Materials Middle Temple Library holds about 150,000 volumes mainly covering English Law, including legislation, case law, textbooks, manuals for students, loose-leaf publications, journals and legal databases. It also specialises in several subject areas such as accountancy, banking, commercial law and arbitration, financial services, competition law, employment, insurance, professional negligence, shipping, social services and trades union law. Enquiry Service

Specialist staff are on hand to help library users in person, on the telephone, by fax or by email. The library is open weekdays and some Saturdays. The library catalogue is available via the internet.

Law Reports

Includes: The Law Reports, the Weekly Law Reports, All England Law Reports and many subject areas, both in hard copy and on-line.

Government Publications

Includes: Statutes and Acts from 1235, secondary legislation and an extensive range of Bills, Parliamentary Papers and journals as well as subscribing to several specialist on-line services.

On-line Services

The library subscribes to all of the major legal databases and some specialist subject ones.

Ecclesiastical Collection

Includes: textbooks, Church Assembly and General Synod Measures, legal pamphlets and a unique collection of (mostly) unpublished Consistory Court Reports from 1891.

Rare Books Collection

Comprises: many early legal texts and manuscripts but also subjects befitting its place from the 15^th to the 19^th centuries for gentlemen to complete their university studies. These vary from theology and religion to topography and travel and also an extensive collection of literature. Famous past members include Sir Walter Raleigh, Martin Frobisher, Richard Hakluyt, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding, John Evelyn, Elias Ashmole, Inigo Jones and William Makepeace Thackeray.

European Union Collection

Covers: treaties, secondary legislation, journals, textbooks, digests, case law and databases. Legislation and case law from the Member States is also collected, including material in English from the new middle and eastern European Member States. Although now part of UK law, the collection also includes an extensive collection of Human Rights case law and material.

American Collection

Contains: extensive range of case law and legislation as well as journals and practitioners' texts for all major subject areas. The collection includes material from the 1600s

Capital Punishment Collection

This is our fledgling collection founded in 2005. It is a growing collection of historical material, textbooks, reports and personal accounts from countries around the world that still retain the death penalty, but the largest part covers the United States. Much of the material has been donated by Amicus and Amnesty International and also by interested individuals.

Middle Temple Library

Please note that Middle Temple Library is a private library for use by members of the four Inns of Court. However, we welcome enquiries under special circumstances from non-members and researchers by appointment.