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The Central Law Library is an autonomous body constituted under the Development Committee Act of 1956. The Board is headed by a Judge of the Supreme Court of Nepal. The Board members comprises with the Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice, Registrar, the Supreme Court, Deputy Attorney General, Attorney General's Office, Dean, Law Faculty- Tribhuvan University, Chairperson, Nepal Bar Association, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Education and the Chief Librarian as the Member Secretary.

The Library was established in August 1993 at the initiative of the former Chief Justice of Nepal Bishwanath Upadhayaya.  The library was developed aiming to create special platform for legal and judicial research for the judges, prosecutors, lawyers and academics. 

The library was inaugurated with 4,000 volumes of legal publications in the country and abroad. The technical assistance from USAID and the Asia Foundation was made available during the inception phase. The UN System, various embassies and international organizations have contributed with valuable publications on periodic basis apart from procured by the Library.

Currently the Library has above 15,000 volumes of publications followed by electronic data. This is the biggest specialized law library in the country. The library has the collection of Nepalese, Indian, American, British laws followed by Islamic law and UN treaty series.