Lesley Dingle

M.A. (Cantab.), LL.B. (Cape Town), CPE (Middlesex), H.D.LIS, H.D.E. (Cape Town)

Email: lmd25@cam.ac.uk

Interests

Oral History (see the Eminent Scholars Archive), History of the Cambridge Law Faculty, Foreign & International Law, UK Constitutional Law.

CV / Biography

• Law Librarian at City, University of London, 1996 - 1997
• Foreign and International Law Librarian, Squire Law Library, University of Cambridge, July 1997 - 2022
• Consultant to USAID Rule of Law Project in Serbia, 2004
• Member of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Advisory Committee, 2008 - 2011
• Chair of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Advisory Committee, 2011
• Member of CUP International Advisory Board, 2012 - 2018
• Member of Kluwer Online Advisory Board, 2014 - 2019
• Chair of Nominations Committee of the International Association of Law Libraries, 2016 - 2019, 2019 - 2021
• International Editorial Board, Journal of Association of Indian Law Libraries, 2020 -
• Inner Temple and BIALL Wallace Breem Memorial Award, 2020

Publications

Articles

• "Colin Conyngham Turpin (1928-2019): An appraisal of his life and legal career" available at SSRN
• ""Conversations with Professor Bill Cornish: Legal History in Context, and Defining Elusive Concepts as Intellectual Property"" (2022) 22 LIM 26 -37
• "Conversations with Michael J. Prichard: the Fun of Legal History and the Triumph Over Administration" (2020) 20 LIM 58 - 66
• "Reflections on the monographs of David Yale QC, FBA" (2020) 12 (1) Unbound: A Review of Legal History and Rare Books
• "Legal Oral Histories in the Cambridge ESA: Some Examples of Researching Personal, Institutional and Social Developments" (2019 ) 19 LIM 192 - 207
• "Judge James Richard Crawford: an appreciation of his perspectives of international law" IALL Blog (25th September 2019) (available at https://iall.org)
• " Perspectives of international law: some examples from conversations with Judge James Richard Crawford" (2019) 19 LIM 14 - 25
• "Conversations with Sir John Hamilton Baker QC: Aspects of Resolving the Legal History of the Common Law" (2018) 18 LIM 10 - 20
• "The Squire Law Library at Cambridge: the Historical Development and Current Status of the International Law Collections" (2017) 17 LIM 78 - 91
• "Conversations with Professor Anthony Terry Hanmer "Tony" Smith: a New Zealander's Journey Through English Academia, and Notions of Criminality in Common Law Jurisdictions" (2017) 17 LIM 24 - 34
• "A Legal Journey through the UN, Academia, and the ICJ: Conversations with Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, JSD, FBA, QC" (2015) 15 LIM 86 -94
• "Legal Biography, Oral History and the Cambridge Eminent Scholars Archive (ESA)" 2014 14 (1) LIM 58 - 68
• "Pioneering the Laws of Commerce: Conversations with Professor Leonard Sedgwick Sealy for the Cambridge ESA" (2013) 13 (4) LIM 278-283
• "Conversations with Emeritus Professor Stroud Francis Charles (Toby) Milsom: A Journey from Heretic to Giant in English Legal History" (2012) 12 (4) LIM 307 - 316
• "A Survey of Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals users, and future development of the Index" (2012) 104 (3) Law Library Journal 427 - 441
• "The Cambridge Way: Conversations with Emeritus Professor John Anthony "Tony" Jolowicz for the Squire Law Library Eminent Scholars Archive" (2011) 11 (4) LIM 251 - 259
• "Justice Paul Desmond Finn: an Australian Dimension to the Cambridge Eminent Scholars Archive" (2011) 19 (2) Australian Law Librarian 92 - 100
• "Thoughts on the History of Law and Governance Down Under" (2011) 17 (1) Unbound: A Review of Legal History and Rare Books
• "Judge Stephen Schwebel: International Jurist Extraordinaire" (2011) 11 (1) LIM 55 - 64
• "A Conversation with Judge Stephen M. Schwebel"" (2010) 7 (1) Transnational Dispute Management
• "Sources of Public International Law" (2009) ( (4) Legal Information Management, 273 - 283
• "A Sensible Radical: Conversations with Professor Sir Bob Hepple, Part 2 - UK and the World" (2009) 9 (4) Legal Information Management, 299 - 307
• "A Sensible Radical: Conversations with Professor Sir Bob Hepple Part I - South Africa" (2009) 9 (2) Legal Information Management, 134 - 140
• "Conversations with Professor Peter Gonville Stein: a Contribution to the Squire Law Library Eminent Scholars Archive, (2008) 8(3) Legal Information Management, 214 - 222"
• "Eminent Scholars Archive at the Squire Law Library and Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2008) 14 (2) Legal History and Rare Books Newsletter of the AALL (with Daniel Bates and Matt Martin)"
• "Conversations with Professor Sir Derek William Bowett: A Contribution to the Squire Law Library Eminent Scholars Archive, (2007) 7(4) Legal Information Management, 277 - 283 (with Daniel Bates)"
• "Conversations with Kurt Lipstein, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law: Some reminiscences over seventy years of the Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law, (2007) 35(1) International Journal of Legal Information 93-133 (with Daniel Bates)"
• "A summary of recent constitutional reform in the United Kingdom (2005) 31 International Journal of Legal Information 71 - 102 (with Bradley Miller)"
• "UK Constitutional Reform (2004) LLRX (with Bradley Miller)"

Book Chapters

• "Guide to Electronic Sources", James Crawford and Martti Koskenniemi (eds) Cambridge Companion to International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 421-437

Book Reviews

• Emerging technologies for academic libraries in the digital age (2009) 9 (4) LIM 316 - 318
• The Library in the Twenty-First Century, 2nd Ed. ( 2008) 8 (2) LIM 151-152
• The Academic Research Library in a Decade of Change, ( 2007) 7 (4) LIM 302 -303
• Subject Librarians: Engaging with the Learning and Teaching Environment, ( 2007) 7 LIM 148
• Developing a Constitution for Europe 2005 (Focus) EIA
• European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Towards a Neighbourhood Strategy 2004, Focus (EIA)