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

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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

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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’

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-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