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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Board of the School of Advanced Studies 18 th June 2010. Outline. 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
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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Board of the School of Advanced Studies 18th June 2010
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 Income and Expenditure: Circa £3.3million
STAFF MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE AT JUNE 2010 DIRECTOR Professor Avrom Sherr LIBRARIAN AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Jules Winterton ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER Will Fitzmaurice ACADEMIC STAFF LIBRARY STAFF ACADEMIC PROG. MANAGER Belinda Crothers DIRECTOR’S PA/ ADMIN ASSISTANT Eliza Boudier SALS SECRETARY COURSE and STUDENT ADMIN Sasha Zernova FINANCE ASSISTANT Monica Humble CATERING SUPERVISOR Carlos Olivier Cunha PREMISES MANAGER Lawrence Theophile PREMISES STAFF ACADEMIC STAFF ACADEMIC STAFF LIBRARY STAFF LIBRARY STAFF PREMISES STAFF PREMISES STAFF
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
The Crown Jewels • Most extensive foreign and international law collections in the UK • 278,000+ volumes • Concordats and collaborations with British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, international partners etc. • Civil Service, Judiciary and legal profession
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 seconds 65 visitors everyhour
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 and Events 2008-9 • Fellowships • 140 Foreign visitors, 10 Fellows, 33 Associate Fellows • 54 Events • 388 hours, 4,820 attendees
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
Research • 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 • 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).
