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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Board of the School of Advanced Studies
18th June 2010
OutlineHistory
Governance and Personalia
Income and Expenditure
Glittering Prizes
National Treasure – Our Crown Jewels
On line access & On line Tools
Events and Fellowships
Teaching and Training
Research
Infl uence
20 20 Vision
The Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies• Promoted in 1895 by LCJ, Lord Russell of
Killowen• Recommended by Lord Chancellor’s
Committee on Legal Education Chaired by Lord Atkin in 1934
• Founded in 1946 at 25 and 26 Russell Square
• Conceived and funded as the National Academic Legal Research Institute
• Part of the University of London – but serving all universities nationally and internationally
GovernanceThe Management Committee
Professor Avrom Sherr
• Director and Woolf Professor of Legal Education
Jules Winterton
• Associate Director and Librarian
Will Fitzmaurice
• Administrative Manager
Dr Helen Xanthaki
• Senior Lecturer in Legislative Studies
David Gee
• Deputy Librarian and Academic Services Manager
Income and Expenditure: Circa £3.3million
PREMISES STAFFPREMISES STAFFPREMISES STAFFPREMISES STAFF
LIBRARY STAFF LIBRARY STAFF LIBRARY STAFF LIBRARY STAFFACADEMIC STAFFACADEMIC STAFFACADEMIC STAFFACADEMIC STAFF
STAFF MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE AT JUNE 2010
DIRECTORProfessor Avrom Sherr
DIRECTORProfessor Avrom Sherr LIBRARIAN AND
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORJules Winterton
LIBRARIAN AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Jules Winterton
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Will Fitzmaurice
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Will FitzmauriceACADEMIC PROG. MANAGER
Belinda Crothers
ACADEMIC PROG. MANAGER
Belinda Crothers
DIRECTOR’S PA/ADMIN ASSISTANT
Eliza Boudier
DIRECTOR’S PA/ADMIN ASSISTANT
Eliza Boudier
SALS SECRETARYCOURSE and
STUDENT ADMIN Sasha Zernova
SALS SECRETARYCOURSE and
STUDENT ADMIN Sasha Zernova
FINANCE ASSISTANTMonica Humble
FINANCE ASSISTANTMonica Humble
CATERING SUPERVISOR
Carlos Olivier Cunha
CATERING SUPERVISOR
Carlos Olivier Cunha
PREMISES MANAGERLawrence Theophile
PREMISES MANAGERLawrence Theophile
ACADEMIC STAFFACADEMIC STAFF
PREMISES STAFFPREMISES STAFF
LIBRARY STAFF LIBRARY STAFF
Income
Expenditure
Glittering Prizes– The Library: The Halsbury’s Award for the
Best Academic Law Library 2009 from Lexis-Nexis
– Jules Winterton: Librarian of the Year Award 2010;President International Association of Law Librarians 2004 -
– Steven Whittle: Wallace Bream Memorial Award 2010 one of the ‘unsung innovators of UK law librarianship’
–
-Avrom Sherr: Chair, Advisory Panel, Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education;
Chair, UK Centre for Legal Education
• Concordats and collaborations with British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, international partners etc.
• Civil Service, Judiciary and legal profession
• Most extensive foreign and international law collections in the UK
• 278,000+ volumes
The Crown Jewels
Online access to resources
• 12,558,777 hits in 2008/2009• 3,291,425 views in 2008/2009• 570,922 visitors in 2008/2009• From over 148 countries
1 hit every 2.5 seconds65 visitors every hour
Existing Online Resources• IALS website• Electronic Law Library• BAILII – British and Irish Legal
Information Institute• Digitisation• FLARE – Foreign Law Research Group• FLAG – Foreign Law Guide• FIT – Flare Index to Treaties• CLRT - Current Legal Research Topics• caLIM - Current awareness for Legal
Information Managers• Intute: Law and Internet for Law
Tutorial
New Online Tools in 2008-2010
• Eagle-i Internet resource Portal for law
• Union list of Foreign Official Gazettes
• SKiLLS – Sources + Know-How in Legal Literacy Skills
• Fellowships– 140 Foreign
visitors, 10 Fellows, 33 Associate Fellows
• 54 Events – 388 hours,
4,820 attendees
Fellowships and Events 2008-9
Teaching and Training• PhD Programme - 47 Students• Masters Programmes – 48 Students:
– LLM Advanced Legislative Studies (+DL option)
– LLM International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law
– MA in Taxation (Law, Administration and Practice)
• Online resources and research methods – 762 people trained over 47 sessions during 2008/9
• Research Methods Training -MPhil/PhD• Legislative Drafting Course• Jean Monet Course/Module
June 15 2010 (p4) [Corrected]
INNOVATIVE MOVE
London lecture for trainee judges Swati Deshpande
Mumbai: Well before they take to the judge’s chair, over 50 trainee magistrates and district judges in Maharashtra will go through the rigorous mock trial-judgment delivery and a series of lectures. Beginning from Tuesday, the first lecture will be delivered from London via video-conferencing. In what the Maharashtra Judicial Academy and Training Institute, Uttan, claims is a unique venture to train district judges in the country, the Bombay high court has organised a lecture on law, legal language, legal drafting, meaning of words, precision and clarity for newly recruited district judges and judicial magistrates. The lecture will be delivered by Helen Xanthaki, who is Senior Lecturer in Legislative Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London.
Research• Peer Review
– Evaluation of quality of work of Publicly Funded lawyers in England and Wales
– Developed in IALS, new S.I., run by IALS to impact the quality of service received by clients
– £1,200,000 funding to date, work ongoing.
• eMCOD– Design and evaluation of tool to
measure access to justice, using Online Dispute Resolution
– International collaboration
• The European Criminal Record–Proposed by IALS
faculty in an EU funded study in 2001
–Established in 2008 following a Framework Decision by the Council of the EU.
Research
Research
• Report on the Future of OLAF–The IALS was chosen by the
European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee to produce it’s major Report on the future of the EU’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
IALS Staff Influence2005-2010
IALS Students and Fellows2005-2010
The National Legal Research Centre at IALS
in 20 20 Vision
Inter-Institutional International
Research Centre
Linking of Academics Professions
Governments and Industry
Specific Research Excellence -
Bridging Gaps - Practical Impact
Leadership in Electronic Legal
Information Projects, Gateways & Free
Law
Unique International Legal Research Collections and
Services
Research Facilitation 20 20
Vision•Group Research and Discussion rooms•Full internet Library resource and service
Facilitating Group
Research
•State-of-the-art Carrel accommodation•Specialist Research Librarian assistance
Facilitating Visiting Fellows’ &
Scholars’ Research
•Refurbished venue accommodation•The Global Intellectual Crossroads
Facilitating Meetings, Seminars, Conferences, Events
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