Episode 1

Conversations with Kurt Lipstein #2: Second World War to the 1960s

Some reminiscences over seventy years of the Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. At the time of these interviews, conducted in the Squire Law Library in April and May 2005, Professor Lipstein was 96 years old and had been associated, in various capacities, with the Library and the Faculty of Law at Cambridge University for over seventy years. The transcripts of these interviews and a commentary was published in the International Journal of Legal Information in 2007 (35(1) International Journal of Legal Information 93-133 (Spring 2007)). The interviewer is Lesley Dingle.

These interviews were recorded and the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings:


- First Interview (14 April 2005): Up to the War;

- Second Interview (20 April 2005): Second World War to the 1960s;

- Third Interview (10 May 2005): After the War;

- Fourth Interview (18 May 2005): Professor Lipstein's Research.


For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/

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