Libraries

The documentation archives and libraries of the Institute are conceived essentially as support for research activities.

However, they are accessible, in certain ways, to the public, students and scholars.
In this context, particular mention should be made of the activities supporting the specialist studies carried out by the Documentation and Training Centre on the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe – OSCE. The Centre is the OSCE Depositary Library.
It collects: official documents, negotiating cards, proposals of delegations, reports of meetings of OSCE bodies, Reports on the activities of the Organization since 1970 to the present. A small specialist library (about 300 volumes) is attached.

The library of the ISGI (headquarters) is composed of about 2,000 volumes and includes, in addition to the general sections International Law, International Organization and EU Law, the following specialist sections: Environmental Law (with the sub-section Water Regime); law of the sea; human rights; space law; telecommunications and information technology law.

The Section of International and Comparative Agricultural Law – DAIC – based in Florence in Via de’ Barucci 20, offers the public its library specialized in topics related to agricultural, agri-environmental and agri-food law. The library consists of 154 periodical titles (between those that have ceased and those in progress) and about 13000 volumes. We note the presence of 60 volumes of the sixteenth-eighteenth and about 800 of the nineteenth century, including the series of Florentine “Annals of jurisprudence”, the “Library of the economist”, preparatory work to the codes, the commentaries to the French codes of 1804 and Italian of 1865 by Laurent, Pacifici Mazzoni, Ferrarotti, Boffito etc. ; he also owns the years 1791-1853 of the Journal du Palais. Jurisprudence française; the years 1808-1857 of the Bulletin of Judgments of the Feudal Commissions of the Kingdom of Naples.

Among the valuable collections owned, we note the fund (2100 volumes) bequeathed to the Institute of International and Comparative Agricultural Law by its founder: “Fondo G.G. Bolla”.

The Library of the DAIC Section is open from Monday to Friday, morning (8-13.00) and afternoon (13.30-15.00). Access to the library catalogue is available at: http://polarcnr.area.ge.cnr.it/cataloghi/idaic_fi/index.php?type=Books (The Library is temporarily closed)
Also noteworthy is the library of the former Center for Latin American Legal Studies, with a library of about 2,800 works, including 50 Latin American magazines and CD-Rom of Latin American legislation and jurisprudence. The entire heritage is included in the bibliographic catalogue of the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ (Latin American Studies Centre), available on line at http://www.biblio.uniroma2.it:82/ALEPH.

In the Publications section of the website, several publications of the Institute are available free of charge, including some volumes in full text. Through the site, the Institute also disseminates information of general interest to international scholars, reporting conferences, seminars and other important initiatives in the field, organized both by the ISGI and by Italian and foreign entities with which it maintains relationships of collaboration.