Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies Research Articles

Serials as Vital Resources: A Bird’s Eye View

Serials are important sources of information to library users. This study examines the serials management in a Law library, the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS). Diverse resources aid research, learning and teaching, among these are serials. They feature as inaugural lectures, public briefings, reports, white papers, gazettes and other government publications, hazards, panels/commissions of inquiry, memoirs, findings, treaties, field trip’ reports, television or film series, body corporate statements of accounts, newspapers, conference proceedings. The role of UNESCO coupons in paying for foreign journals was briefly mentioned-though these are no longer sent to many Nigeria libraries. The compulsion for all serials editors to write to NLN for an ISSN to enhance the compilation of National Bibliographic Control, like the British Union Catalogue of Periodicals, and collective aim at ensuring a knowledge output consortia among all libraries to ‘save the bucks’ was also mentioned, this, so many of the knowledge industries do not comply with this statute, unfortunately. The paper discussed the management of serials which include: acquisitions, classification, storage and preservation. The study recommends the need for acquisitions policy reviews, staff skills, suggesting the employment of only possessors of library and information science qualifications in the libraries, preservation and conservation of serials via binding and pre-purchase quality assurance.

Designing and Curating EDI Book Displays at IALS

AbstractIn this article David Percik, Information Resources Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, reports on a project at IALS to plan out and curate a series of book displays focusing on historically disadvantaged groups. He discusses how the themes of the displays were selected, the consequences of having two differing available spaces, and the work done by the library team to expand the displays beyond books on shelves.

Evaluation of Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies' Library

Evaluation of Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies' Library

Welcome to the IALS Student Law Review

In this Editorial, Tugçe Yalçin (Editor-in-Chief of ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London) welcomes you to the Autumn 2021 issue of the IALS Student Law Review (ISLRev) and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.

The IALS Library Transformed!

AbstractIn this article David Gee, the Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), describes the recent two year ‘IALS Transformation Project’ that Charles Clore House at 17 Russell Square has undergone and the benefits for the Institute and its library that have resulted from the refurbishment work that has been carried out. He looks at the aims of the project, explains how a continuity of services and activities during the works has been assured and how the transformation of the building meets the needs of the postgraduate law students and legal researchers of today.

Editor's introduction

In this Editorial, Tugçe Yalçin (Editor-in-Chief of ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London) welcomes you to the COVID Special issue of the IALS Student Law Review (ISLRev) and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.

Welcome to the IALS Student Law Review

In this Editorial, Tugçe Yalçin (Editor-in-Chief of ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London) welcomes you to the Autumn 2020 issue of the IALS Student Law Review (ISLRev) and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.

Welcome to the IALS Student Law Review

In this Editorial, Tugce Yalcin (Editor-in-Chief, ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London) welcomes you to the Spring 2020 issue of the IALS Student Law Review and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.

Researching Customary International Law

AbstractThis article written by Hester Swift is based on the online course entitled, ‘Customary International Law’, which was created by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Library for the Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT) platform and is available to all at <https://port.sas.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=120>. The PORT service is provided by the University of London's School of Advanced Study.

SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2017/2018

AbstractThis is the latest report analysing the results of the annual Academic Law Library Survey that is jointly sponsored by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL). It has been compiled and written by David Gee, Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, a part of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.

Editorial and Introduction

Welcome to the summer issue of Legal Information Management (LIM) which celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL). Back in 1999, on Friday 16th April 1999 to be precise, a BIALL Council meeting took place that was held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. The minutes of that meeting record that, Before the meeting opened, Mary Blake [then President of BIALL] informed those present that the date was a special one in BIALL history, as it was 30 years to the day that BIALL was established. She had marked the occasion by bringing a birthday cake and Michael Maher [then Chair of the Association] provided bottles of Champagne for a toast after lunch.

Jury direction – an antipodean experiment

Justice Mark Weinberg (Judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria and Inns of Court Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London in 2016-17) discusses difficulties with the length and complexity of jury directions experienced in a number of common law countries in recent years. His paper looks in particular at the situation in Australia where, in some respects, jury directions had become a major problem for the criminal justice system and considers the wider application of the Australian solutions to lawyers in England and Wales.

Banking regulation and environmental sustainability

In this article Professor Kern Alexander (Chair for Banking and Financial Market Law, University of Zurich, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London and Professorial Fellow in Financial Regulation, Centre for Risk Studies, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) discusses why environmental sustainability is relevant to banking policy and regulation and shows how G20 countries are using banking policy to meet sustainability challenges through a variety of institutional and regulatory approaches that reflect their own unique national circumstances. The article suggests that G20 countries have still further to go in using banking regulation to promote the mobilization of green capital for investment and for mainstreaming environmental sustainability challenges into bank business strategies, governance and risk management practices. In this way, banking regulation can more effectively support the economy’s adaptation and transition to a more environmentally sustainable economic path. This paper is based on a lecture he gave at the IALS on 22 March 2016 discussing some of the issues in his report and the broader green banking policy agenda, including the regulatory policy options for banks to adopt environmental standards into their governance and business strategies

Interview with the New Head of the Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

AbstractIn this article, where Liz Murray, Information Resources Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London, interviews Claudia Holland, Head of the Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the strategic direction of the new Head Librarian is explored. The strengths of this major international, comparative private law library are considered and the balance between providing electronic access to law resources while still maintaining an excellent legal print collection is examined. The importance of networks and collaboration is also highlighted.

Welcome to the IALS Student Law Review

In this Editorial Lovina Otudor (Editor-in-Chief, ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) welcomes you to the Autumn 2018 issue of the IALS Student Law Review and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.

SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2016/2017

AbstractThis is the latest report analysing the results of the Society of Legal Scholars and BIALL Survey. It has been written by David Gee, Deputy Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Beyond the British model. Law reform in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, South Africa and Israel

ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to set the scene for the following special issue, which contains five papers relating to research on law reform in common law and mixed jurisdictions and which forms part of a wider research project (Law Reform Project) carried out within the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London. The first hypothesis of this research was that due to the contrasting way in which the traditions of the British common law have developed within the two mixed jurisdictions examined in this volume (namely South Africa and Israel) and their different connections with the Commonwealth, the concepts of law reform there do differ from one another. The second hypothesis of this research was that, within a homogeneous area (i.e. common law or mixed jurisdictions which all have strong historical and cultural connections with the U.K. in common and which are all members of the Commonwealth), the model of law reform, although rather homogenous, is differently shaped in each of these jurisdictions and goes beyond the British model. The case studies analysed here are New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. The articles published here seem to support some provisional conclusions on the adoption of law reform processes.

Welcome to the IALS Student Law Review

In this Editorial Lovina Otudor (Editor-in-Chief, ISLRev, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) welcomes you to the Spring 2018 issue of the IALS Student Law Review and introduces the articles featured in this issue of the journal.

IALS@70: the Growth of the IALS Library and its Development of Digital Initiatives for the UK Legal Community

AbstractIn this article, David Gee, Deputy Librarian & Academic Services Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in the University of London, writes about the launch of IALS Digital. As a way of placing the launch into context, he outlines the growth of the IALS Library over the past 70 years and describes the development of a wide range of digital initiatives over the past 30 years.

Launching IALS Digital: Connections and Collaboration

AbstractDuring its 70th Anniversary celebrations the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London launched IALS Digital - a new name for established and evolving online services at IALS, bringing together resources, opportunities for new legal information initiatives, research projects and partnerships, and delivering support for digital legal scholarship. This paper written by Steven Whittle, IALS Digitial Manager, developed from presentations at the launch in November 2017, reports on the event and describes what the Institute plans to achieve through IALS Digital, explaining what it is, how it has developed and how it fits well with the IALS national role in the promotion and facilitation of legal research.