Collection KFL - LAW: King's College London faculty records

Key Information

Reference code

KFL

Title

LAW: King's College London faculty records

Date(s)

  • 1964-1993 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

19 boxes

Scope and content

The collection of the King's College London School of Law comprises correspondence, minutes and papers, 1964-1993; notably including correspondence relating to Defence Legal Studies at King's, 1966 (ref: KFL/FS1); correspondence relating to prizes, sponsorships and scholarships, 1966-1992 (ref: 1995/KFL); correspondence, minutes and papers relating to regulations, course content and schedules and the staff-student liaison committee, 1968-1985 (ref: KFL/FS1-5); general correspondence and accounts of The Human Rights Trust, 1968-1985 (ref: 1992/KFL); papers concerning the teaching of human rights in schools and especially Council of Europe recommendations on the subject, 1970-1986 (ref: 1992/KFL); correspondence concerning the Chair and Centre for European Law, 1972-1976 (ref: KFL/FS2); papers, proceedings and seminar materials on the rights of prisoners and the protection of religious liberty, 1975-1987 (ref: 1992/KFL); correspondence relating to European Economic Community grants directed towards the teaching of human rights, 1977-1981 (ref: 1992/KFL); academic staff files, 1964-1993 (ref: 1995/KFL/FPA).

System of arrangement

Mostly boxed in order of accession.

General Information

Name of creator

(1991-2012)

Biographical history

Law has been taught at King's since it opened formerly in 1831, and originally came under the Senior Department and then the Department of General Literature and Science. Under the Faculty of Arts from 1893, it was known as the Division of Laws and Economics. The Faculty of Laws was founded in association with the London School of Economics in 1909, and became known as the School of Law in 1991. It is a single department school, but is comprised of various research centres and groups, including the British Institute of Human Rights, set up in 1971, the Centre of European Law, founded in 1974, the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, created in 1978, and the Centre of British Constitutional Law and History, established in 1988.

Custodial history

British Institute of Human Rights, 1991, or otherwise the School of Law.

Conditions governing access

Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.

Files containing personal data are closed for 80 years and sensitive personal data for 100 years from the date of the most recent document in the file.

Where open, access is subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

A brief hand-list is available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›

Related materials

King's College London Law Student Records (Ref: KCLCA KFL/FP, KFL/FP(W), KFL/FPPG, KFLLS/FP, KFLE/FPPG, KFLE/FPPG, KFLCP/FP); Centre of Medical Law and Ethics Records (Ref: KCLCA 1996/KFLE, 1998/KFLE), and Student Records (Ref: KCLCA KFLE/FPPG, KFLE/FP); King's Secretarial series (Ref: KAS/AC2); papers of Professor John James Park (Ref: KCLCA K/PP76); papers of Anthony Dowdall Hughes (Ref: KCLCA K/PP28); papers of Professor Ronald Harry Graveson (Ref: KCLCA K/PP39); papers of Professor Ernst Joseph Cohn (Ref: KCLCA K/PP60).

Related descriptions

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Source: King's College Calendars. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

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