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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Academic Support, Library

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
26-Jul-2024	Opinion Writing and Case Preparation Manual 4th to 8th editions (2016-2024) Edited Book OUP textbook: sections on EU Legal Documentation, Human Rights Documentation, Words and Phrases.
20-Mar-2024	Seized Books! Explore what happened after the prosecution was dropped Articles Blog to accompany Senate House Library's online exhibition, 'Seized Books!', marking the fortieth anniversary of the Customs and Excise raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop in Bloomsbury.
18-May-2023	The European Union Databases User Group (EUDUG) Articles (2023) 23 LIM 21 Co-author Frederico Rocha, University of Cardiff
06-Nov-2019	Researching customary international law Articles (2019) 3 LIM 169
29-Jun-2017	The international law collections of the IALS library Articles (2017) 17 LIM 75
15-Jun-2016	The BIALL-IALS foreign and international law courses Articles (2016) 16 LIM 116
31-Aug-2014	Opinion Writing and Case Preparation, 3rd ed. Edited Book OUP textbook: sections on EU Legal Documentation, Human Rights Documentation, Words and Phrases.
01-Jun-2012	Using the web to suport legal research and teaching Conference papers Presented with Gerry Power  at the Annual ICT and Legal Education Seminar, UCL.
01-Jan-2012	Opinion Writing and Case Preparation, 2nd Ed. OUP textbook: sections on EU Legal Documents, Human Rights Documentation, and (part of) Researching Words and Phrases.
01-Jan-2011	Product Review - ILR on Justis, Articles Swift, Hester, (2011) Product review: ILR on Justis. LIM 11(2), pp.146-148 ISSN 1472-6696
01-Jan-2009	Opening up the UK's foreign and international law collections: the FLARE Initiative, the FLAG Foreign Law Guide and the FLARE Index to Treaties Articles Clinch, Peter and Swift, Hester (2009) Opening up the UK's foreign and international law collections: the FLARE Initiative, the FLAG Foreign Law Guide and the FLARE Index to Treaties LIM 9(4),pp.262-266 ISSN 1472-6696
01-Jan-2009	US Legal Information Articles Swift, Hester, (2009) US legal information LIM 9(4), 267-272 ISSN 1472-6696

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
EU Databases User Group (EUDUG)	EUDUG is a network for librarians involved with EU work. I help to organise and run training/networking events for members.
British and Irish Association of Law Librarian (BIALL)	Professional association for law librarians. I am an ordinary member and an occasional speaker at BIALL events.

Collaborations:

Name	Type	Activity	Start date	End date
Duty and Dissent: the Great War and British Voices of Resistance	Gave a talk at Senate House Library about the emergence of intergovernmental peacekeeping organisations, part of a series of talks organised by SHL to accompany the exhibition	Talk	15-Apr-2015	15-Jul-2015
Collaborating with specialist librarians from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and SOAS,	Putting on periodic one-day seminars at which we each give a presentation (March 2009, November 2011, February 2015)	Training other law librarians from around the UK in foreign and international legal research	03-Mar-2009

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
07-Mar-2015	The Foreign, International and Comparative Law Research Collections at IALS Library  Presentation at IALS training day for UK law PhD researchers.
18-Feb-2015	BIALL-IALS Foreign and International Law Workshop Training for other law librarians on researching US law.
10-Dec-2014	IALS Global Law Library: making the most of our electronic resources Presentation at IALS training day for UK law PhD researchers, 'How to get a PhD in Law:'
01-Mar-2014	The Foreign, International and Comparative Law Research Collections at IALS Library Presentation at IALS training day for UK law PhD researchers, 'How to get a PhD in Law:'
16-Mar-2013	The Foreign, International and Comparative Law Research Collections at IALS Library At one-day workshop, 'How to get a PhD in Law: What legal research skills will I need? Literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research and comparative legal research'.
06-Feb-2013	Developing National Online Legal Research Tools at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies  Talk given at Manchester University on 6 Feb. 2013, Sheffield University on 17 March 2013 and Portsmouth University on 17 April 2013.
30-Nov-2012	IALS Global Law Library: making the most of our electronic resources  Presentation at one of the IALS national training days for law PhD students (How to get a PhD in Law: Meeting the challenges of the early years)
01-Jan-2011	British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) foreign and international law seminar Presentation entitled "Sources of US law" at BIALL one-day seminar, held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 16 November 2011.
01-Jan-2010	City Legal Information Group: US legal information seminar Presentation entitled "United States Legal System and Sources" to the members of the City Legal Information Group, 14 May 2010.
01-Jan-2009	BIALL Foreign and International Law Seminar Gave a presentation entitled "Sources of US law" at this seminar, held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 3 March 2009.
01-Jan-2009	BIALL Foreign and International Law Seminar Organised this one-day event in cooperation with a BIALL committee member.
01-Jan-2009	British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 40th annual study conference (2009) Was one of three speakers at a session entitled "Opening up the UK’s Foreign and International Law Collections: the FLARE Initiative and Index to Treaties, and the FLAG Foreign Law Guide" in June 2009. The other speakers were Lesley Dingle from the University of Cambridge and Peter Clinch from Cardiff University.
01-Jan-2008	City Legal Information Group (CLIG) European Union information seminar Gave a presentation entitled "European Union Legislation" at a CLIG seminar, held at the Law Society Library in November 2008.
01-Jan-2007	BIALL Treaties Seminar Presentation entitled "Free sources of treaty information on the internet", at a half-day seminar held by the British and Irish Assoc. of Law Librarians (BIALL) at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 5 March 2007.

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