Lord Woolf launches UK's first human rights library collection at University College London
27 February 2004
University College London (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê) will launch the UK's first Human Rights Law Library collection at a ceremony at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê in the Flaxman Gallery, Main Library, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT on Monday 1st March at 6pm.
The collection is founded in memory of Flt. Lt. Arthur C. Spencer, a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê law graduate (1933-1938) who was killed in action over Germany in 1942. The collection has been generously funded by his friend, Mr Robert Rogers, who studied with him at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, where their friendship was formed.
The collection brings together existing items (monographs, journals and a series of reports and official documents) previously scattered throughout the law collection. Mr Rogers' donation has been invested to provide a regular income to maintain this new collection and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê will match the donation to support its development.
Martin Reid, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê law librarian, says: "As a result of the 1998 Human Rights Act, both domestic and international human rights have become a rapidly developing area of law with a fast-growing literature. We are delighted to receive this gift from Mr Rogers and hope that the new collection will provide a strong basis on which to build and develop a first class collection of human rights material in London."