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IALS Annual Review 2017

Foreword by Jules Winterton, IALS Director 2

About the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 3

News Review 4

People 10

IALS Celebrates 70 Years, Plans for Future Growth 12

IALS at 70 12 During its anniversary year, the Institute demonstrated the broad range of contributions

it has made to the promotion and facilitation of legal research, its engagement with interdisciplinary research in law, and the continuing central role of its library in serving generations of scholars from the UK and around the world.

Transforming a Classic: Clore House Refurbishment Begins 14

A £15 million renovation of the Institute’s home on Russell Square will ensure that it can continue to meet the needs of legal researchers, scholars, and students for decades to come. Get a glimpse of the future of one of the world’s leading legal facilities.

PhD Awards 2016–17 16

Selected Staff Publications 17

Financial Summary 18

Statistics 19

Contents

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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies again had a productive year, fulfilling its national mission for the promotion and facilitation of legal research. It welcomed scholars and students from 51 UK universities and from 124 other countries, collaborated with the law schools of the University of London, offered its services to the profession, and made a wealth of information available to the public through its open access publishing initiatives.

Two major events took place in autumn 2017: the celebration of the Institute’s 70th anniversary and University approval of the Institute’s long-awaited refurbishment project.

During October and November, in a packed programme of anniversary events, the Institute and its many friends reflected on its development from its beginnings in a small house on Russell Square. We looked back with pride at its achievements since then and looked forward to further developments as we continue to play a leading role in the legal research environment. For details of these celebrations, please turn to page 12.

In November, the University approved funding for the major refurbishment of the IALS building at 17 Russell Square (see page 14). This news was announced at the main anniversary event, during which the history and the future of the Institute were discussed through the kind participation of Sir Roy Goode and Professor Linda Mulcahy. Nicholas Burwell of Burwell Deakins Architects described the aims of the refurbishment and how they will be achieved while respecting the original listed Lasdun building. The project is scheduled to start in July 2018 and will last for about two years. During that time, the Institute and its library will remain open as the work progresses floor by floor. The latest news about the project can be found on the Institute website here: ials.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/ials-transformation-project-2018-2020

These developments could not have been achieved without the tremendous team of staff at the Institute, their dedication to the mission of the Institute as a service for all our constituents, and the wider team at the School of Advanced Study and the University of London. The Institute thanks them and all our many friends, colleagues, and visitors for their continuing support of this major renewal of the Institute and its building.

This Annual Review also highlights our continuing activities, including workshops, lectures, seminars, international courses, and collaborations that drew about 4,000 participants; research training events delivered to more than 2,000 researchers; PhD and LLM successes; fellowship programmes; library developments and roadshows; and library services to nearly 6,000 people from 125 countries and 52 UK universities.

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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies supports and promotes legal research in its broadest sense, both nationally and internationally, provides services to the law schools of the University of London, and brings together the academic and the practising legal professions for the benefit of the legal system as a whole.

Founded in 1947, it houses specialist research centres and innovative partnerships and is home to an active community of researchers, fellows, and postgraduate students. It promotes new research agendas in specialist and interdisciplinary areas of law with direct effect on policy and practice. It provides research training and online services, a meeting place for organisations and legal scholars from around the world, one of the world’s great comparative legal research libraries, and a busy programme of seminars and public events. IALS is a member institute of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, a unique institution in UK higher education. Located in Bloomsbury, the School unites nine prestigious institutes to form the UK’s national centre for the support of researchers and the promotion of research.

An International Crossroads for Legal Research

The Institute is a major national and international destination and meeting place for academic legal researchers. It provides diverse and engaging programmes of academic events, dedicated research space and meeting rooms, lecture halls, and social space. Its library provides a national shared resource and attracts more than 6,000 scholars each year from the UK and overseas for research, collaboration, and knowledge exchange. From its location in Russell Square and online over the web, IALS maintains extensive networks of institutional and personal contacts to which it promotes its events and services and attracts scholars from UK and overseas universities to enrich the intellectual life of the Institute. It is a ‘home from home’ for many PhD students in law at UK universities.

Learn more at: ials.sas.ac.uk

Foreword

Jules WintertonDirector

About the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

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Building Drafting Skills for Improving the Quality of Urban LegislationThe collaboration between the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies and UN-Habitat is now in its fifth year. From being an almost forgotten area of interest, Urban Law has emerged in the last decade as one of the key instruments of change in the developing world. Urban Law is complex because it encompasses so many different dimensions and disciplines, from black letter law to town planning, from policy making to econometrics. For five years, the Centre and UN-Habitat have joined forces for an annual Urban Law Day. This past year, the Centre decided to offer its expertise in legislative drafting for the benefit of UN-Habitat and its officers in different parts of the world.

The timing of the event was not accidental. The New Urban Agenda was adopted by the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in October 2016. The Agenda is a non-binding roadmap that sets policy objectives for environmentally friendly cities that are engines of prosperity and centres of cultural and social well-being. Major commitments in the New Urban Agenda include the provision of basic services for all citizens in an equal and non-discriminatory way; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; measures for cleaner cities; strengthened resilience and reduced risk and impact of disasters; actions to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; respect for the rights of refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons; improved connectivity and support for innovative and green initiatives; and safe, accessible, and green public spaces. National governments and local authorities are the primary drivers of the New Urban Agenda, which acknowledges that effective implementation requires an enabling environment and a range of implementation strategies, including access to science, technology, and innovation and enhanced knowledge-sharing, capacity development and financial resources, international cooperation, and partnerships. Effective implementation also requires urban rules and regulations and governance frameworks that actively promote these objectives. Legal and institutional frameworks play a central role since they are the means for implementing

policies and are central to delivering the rights and protection that policy documents promise to individuals and groups.

However, the link between policy objectives and legislation — especially in highly complex areas like urban legislation and governance — is not always sufficiently clear.

Thus, after five years of discussion and collaboration, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies decided to offer the first ‘official’ training seminar in legislative drafting for UN-Habitat Officers, led and delivered by the Sir William Dale Centre. The event included eight members of staff from UN-Habitat headquarters and additional staff from Mozambique, Russia, Lebanon, Angola, Iraq, Rwanda, and Saudi Arabia. All of these officers — most of them town planners, civil engineers, or economists—had drafted law and policy in different jurisdictions without formal training in legislative drafting. Like many before them, they had ‘learned on the job’ without the benefit of targeted and systematic training in a field they had been working in for years. Dr Constantin Stefanou (director of the Centre), Dr Maria Mousmouti (lecturer at the Centre) as well as Centre Fellows including Professor Helen Xanthaki, were involved in designing and running the event.

For most if not all participants, the seminar was a revelation. The training, which culminated in the Urban Law Day event, received such high praise that UN-Habitat is planning to introduce it as a regular feature of its annual events. Perhaps more importantly for the Centre has been the realisation that applying its expertise to new areas of law is meaningful, welcome, and timely. It is considerable praise for the Centre’s efforts that its assistance is sought by key organizations such as UN-Habitat.

For more information, visit: ials.sas.ac.uk/research/research-centres/sir-william-dale-centre-legislative-studies

Information Law and Policy Centre Explores Digital Rights of Children

The internet provides children with more freedom to communicate, learn, create, share, and engage with society than ever before. Research by Ofcom in 2016 found that 72 percent of young teenagers in the UK have social media accounts. Twenty percent of the same group have made their own digital music and 30 percent have used the internet for civic engagement by signing online petitions or by sharing and talking about the news.

Interacting within this connected digital world, however, also presents a number of challenges to ensuring the adequate protection of a child’s rights to privacy, freedom of expression, and safety, both online and offline. These risks range from children being unable to identify advertisements on search engines to being subjects of bullying or grooming or other types of abuse in online chat groups. Children may also be targeted via social media platforms with methods (such as fake online identities or manipulated images) specially designed to harm them or exploit their particular vulnerabilities and naivety.

These issues were the focus of the 2017 annual conference of the Institute’s Information Law and Policy Centre (ILPC). The ILPC produces, promotes, and facilitates research about the law and policy of information and data, and the ways in which law both restricts and enables the sharing and dissemination of different types of information. The ILPC’s annual conference was one of a series of events celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Other events included the ILPC’s Being Human Festival panel discussion ‘Co-existing with HAL 9000: Being Human in a World with Artificial Intelligence’.

During the conference, leading policymakers, practitioners, regulators, key representatives from industry and civil society, and academic experts examined the opportunities and challenges posed by current and future legal frameworks and

the policies being used and developed to safeguard these freedoms and rights. These leading stakeholders included Rachel Bishop, Deputy Director of Internet Policy at the Department of Digital (DCMS); Lisa Atkinson, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Head of Policy; Anna Morgan, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland; Graham Smith, leading internet law expert at Bird & Bird LLP; Renate Samson, CEO of privacy advocacy organisation Big Brother Watch; and Simon Milner, Facebook’s Policy Director for the UK, Africa, and Middle East.

The legal systems under scrutiny included the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the related provisions of the UK Digital Charter, and the UK Data Protection Bill, which will implement the major reforms of the much-anticipated EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/678) (GDPR), which went into force on 25 May 2018. Key concerns expressed at the conference included the lack of evidence-based policy for, and the effectiveness in practice of, the controversial age of consent for children and their use of online information services provided for under the GDPR. Further questions were raised with respect to what impact in practice there will be for children’s privacy, freedom of expression, and civil liberties as a result of the new transparency and accountability principles and mechanisms that must be implemented by industry and governments when their data processing involves marketing to or monitoring children.

Given the importance and pertinence of these challenging and cutting-edge policy issues, the Centre is delighted that several papers presented, discussed, and debated at the conference’s plenary sessions and keynote panels will feature in a special issue of the leading peer-reviewed legal journal Communications Law. This special issue also includes the text of the Centre’s 2017 Annual Lecture, ‘Are Children More than Clickbait in the 21st Century?’, which was delivered by one of the country’s leading children’s online rights campaigners, Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE, also a member of the House of Lords and a prominent filmmaker.

Recordings of the 2017 ILPC Annual Lecture and presentations from the annual conference’s keynote panel are available online; please visit ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/videos.

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IALS Launches New Book ForumThe past year saw the launch of a new series of seminars, the IALS New Book Forum, to celebrate and debate recently published monographs and edited collections. The books under discussion reflect the breadth of scholarship supported by IALS, with a particular focus on work that brings law into conversation with other disciplines.

The first book in the series was Towards a Rhetoric of Medical Law by Professor John Harrington, Cardiff Law School, with comments by a legal scholar (Dr Emilie Cloatre, Kent Law School), a medical ethicist (Professor Richard Ashcroft, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London), and a political scientist (Professor Alan Finlayson, University of East Anglia). Second was Reconstructing Judicial Review by Dr Sarah Nason, Bangor University Law School, which was launched with comments from Mr Justice Lewis, Administrative Court; Paul Bowen QC, Brick Court Chambers; Professor Rick Rawlings, University College London; and Dr Dimitrios Kyritsis, University of Reading. Analysis of legal theory and legal anthropology by Professor Marie Andree Jacob (Keele University) and Professor Alain Pottage (London School of Economics) were at the fore of the seminar examining Brewing Legal Times: Things, Form, and the Enactment of Law by Dr Emily Grabham, Kent Law School. The final book in the 2017 series was ReValuing Care in Theory, Law, and Policy: Cycles and Connections, edited by Professor Rosie Harding, Birmingham Law School; Dr Ruth Fletcher, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London; and Professor Chris Beasley, Politics and International Studies, University of Adelaide.

Professor Linda Mulcahy: John Coffin Annual Memorial Lecture 2017The John Coffin Annual Memorial Lecture in April 2017 featured Professor Linda Mulcahy (London School of Economics) on ‘Ways of Seeing Law: What Can Art History Tell Lawyers about Their Discipline?’ Professor Mulcahy’s scholarship adopts a socio-legal perspective that attends to how we conceptualise the essence and boundaries of the field of law. An expert in dispute resolution, she is co-director of a Leverhulme Trust research project on the recent history of court design in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and architect Emma Rowden. With the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, she is working with the British Library to bring the Library’s expertise in oral history together with the LSE’s Legal Biography Project, of which she is a co-director. Drawing on her interdisciplinary interests, Professor Mulcahy’s lecture addressed engagements between law, art, and the image — and the implications of moving from a focus on the word in law (written judgments and textual analysis) to an exploration of the value of the image as a source of information about law and legal phenomena that is otherwise lacking or marginalised in the legal canon. The lecture was chaired by Michelle O’Malley, Professor of the History of Art and Deputy Director of the Warburg Institute. To view a recording of the lecture, please visit ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/videos/ways-seeing-law-what-can-art-history- tell-lawyers-about-their-discipline.

W.G. Hart Workshop Explores Administrative PowerIn 1966, with funds donated by the Ford Foundation, the Institute organised the UK’s first legal workshop modelled on a concept pioneered a few years earlier by the New York University School of Law. These workshops, which address a different theme each year, have been held annually ever since. The Ford Foundation grant ended in 1978, but in 1981 the Institute was able to secure alternative funding under the terms of a bequest to the University of London of the residuary estate of Dr Walter Gray Hart, to be used ‘for the advancement of legal education’. Consequently, since 1981 the workshop has been named the W. G. Hart Legal Workshop.

The 2017 workshop, ‘Law, Society and Administration in a Changing World’, took place in July and was convened by Professor Peter Cane and Dr Hayley J. Hooper of the University of Cambridge and Professor Jeff King of University College London. The main aim of the workshop was to explore political, institutional, economic, and cultural factors that influence (or have in the past influenced) the emergence and development of legal regimes for controlling administrative power. Particular attention was paid to six systems of administrative law: France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and ‘global governance’.

Professor Andrew Burrows: Hamlyn Lecture Series 2017This year’s Hamlyn Lectures Series was delivered by Professor Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, DCL, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, Professor of the Law of England and a Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford. His subject, ‘Thinking about Statutes’, was addressed over three lectures. ‘Statutory Interpretation’ was given at Oxford on 1 November with Baroness Hale, President of the UK Supreme Court, in the Chair. ‘The Interaction between Common Law and Statute’ was given at the University of Manchester on 9 November with Lord Dyson chairing. The third lecture, ‘Improving Statutes’, took place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 15 November with Elizabeth Gardiner, first Parliamentary Counsel, in the Chair.

First, Professor Burrows noted the lack of teaching and study of statutes in UK law schools. He asked four questions: how a statute is to be interpreted; whether statutory interpretation is seeking to effect the intention of Parliament; what a statute

‘always speaking’ means; and whether assimilation between statutory interpretation and other types of legal interpretation of contracts and common law precedents is possible. Then he considered three issues relating to statutes’ interaction with common law: the development of common law by analogy to statutes; the removal of the common law, or the freezing of its development, by statute; and whether reform of the common law should proceed by judicial development or statute. Finally, he considered how the quality of statutes might be improved by examining the style of statutory drafting, the role of Parliamentary Counsel, pre- and post-legislative scrutiny, and the work of the Law Commission in respect of consolidation and statute law repeals. 

Student Nicholas Petrie Wins Schwarzenberger Prize

The Georg Schwarzenberger Prize in International Law was endowed by friends and former students of the late Professor Georg Schwarzenberger, formerly Emeritus Professor of International Law at the University of London. It is awarded annually to a student, or students, in the University’s Faculty of Law considered

by the IALS director to be outstanding in the field of public international law. The 2017 prize was won by London School of Economics LLM student Nicholas Petrie. Mr Petrie was also the recipient of the Blackstone Chambers Prize for best performance in public international law in 2016. He has worked on the Bizimungu and Ntawukuriryayo cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, published in The American Journal of International Law, and worked with the Master of the Rolls on appeals before the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.

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Professor Diamond Ashiagbor Explores Labour Law and Social Rights in Inaugural Lecture

The ambition to locate IALS at the forefront of interdisciplinary research on law, society, and the humanities continued with the inaugural lecture of Professor Diamond Ashiagbor in October 2017. The title of the lecture, ‘Telling Stories about Law and Development’ was drawn from a lecture series co-organised by Professor Ashiagbor and Dr Antara Haldar (Faculty of

Law, University of Cambridge) that brought together writers and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender, and development in the global South and North (developing and industrialised countries).

The focus of the inaugural lecture was to explore what space there can be for labour law and social rights in projects of regional integration, examined in the context of the European Union and the African Union. Academic disciplines such as labour law or scholarship on development

or on trade tend to unite around dominant narratives or stories. Professor Ashiagbor explored how labour law has coherence as a discipline because it is often a location for attempts to resolve questions of economic efficiency, redistribution, fairness, equality, justice, development, human rights, and social change. But this scholarship does have a dominant narrative, which is shaped by its emergence in the ‘hegemonic’ countries of the global North, allied to a particular economic history of regulation of primarily Fordist productive relations; regulation that has evolved along with the protective capacities of industrialised states during the twentieth century. The lecture therefore examined how the normative project of labour law can be realised by thinking through different institutions that emerge from and are applicable to the global South as well as the global North, and which do not presuppose formal labour relations or broad capacities of the state.

The inaugural lecture, chaired by Professor Rick Rylance, Dean of the School of Advanced Study, was part of the series of events to mark the 70th anniversary of IALS. To view a recording of the lecture, please visit ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/videos/telling-stories-about-law-and-development.

IALS Digital: Expanding Access to Legal InformationAs part of its 70th anniversary celebrations, the Institute launched IALS Digital in November 2017. This is a new name for the Institute’s established and evolving online information services: bringing together resources; creating opportunities for new legal information initiatives, projects, and partnerships; and providing support for digital legal scholarship. IALS Digital is about linking people to legal information, linking people to each other, and co-operating with others to develop resources and services that are beneficial to academics, professionals, and the public.

The IALS Digital team includes law librarians with a background in legal information management and information systems skills. A core team (Lindsey Caffin, Narayana Harave, and Steven Whittle) is working with other sections of the Institute’s Library, particularly the Academic Services team, and with academic and administrative staff throughout the Institute and the School of Advanced Study. It will also draw on the expertise of colleagues in the University of London Computer Centre.

Established services include those created by information initiatives, unique collections, and IALS expertise in creating, sharing, and using legal information. Work with these resources will continue. As a developing service, IALS Digital will explore new technology and investigate its application

for legal research. Such work will include providing new content, linking data to add research value and provide wider contexts, and digital skills sharing.

Open law initiatives are at the heart of the IALS Digital mission, founded in the shared recognition of the fundamental importance of open access to authentic primary materials, such as legislation and case reports, coupled with open access to commentary and scholarly insight. The Institute’s ambitions for open law include extending the role of digital publishing in legal scholarship and the development of online research publications.

IALS digital resources include a range of web-based databases that facilitate legal research and scholarship and are integral to the Institute’s role in proving a national collection of legal information. For example:

• British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) – BAILII is the premier free legal information website in the UK, heavily used by universities, the public, and practitioners with more than 2,000 visitors each day. Under a new agreement with BAILII, the Institute will continue to host the management, administration, and development of the service and work more closely in content-building and collaborative legal information initiatives.

• IALS Open Access Journals – IALS Digital participates actively in the School of Advanced Study’s Open Journal System, making the IALS/SALS journal Amicus Curiae, the IALS Student Law Review, and an open access version of the Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review freely available online.

• IALS Open Book Service for Law, OBserving Law – Working closely with legal academics, professional societies, and associations, the Institute is developing this service on the School’s Open Access publishing platform, the Humanities Digital Library. The aim is to provide increased accessibility and visibility to scholarly research. A new IALS PhD Thesis Book Prize awards a contract for a doctoral thesis to be published as an Open Access monograph within the IALS Open Book Service.

At the launch event, two panels of speakers described some of the resources that have been developed at the Institute over the years. The first panel looked at examples of collaborative initiatives based on IALS Library collections and expertise; the second panel focused on Open Access and the Institute’s commitment to extending open access publishing for law.

In a video greeting at the launch, Professor Graham Greenleaf AM announced a new AustLII-led initiative to build an online library called Foundations of the Common Law 1215–1914. This project will digitise the key pre-1915 case law and other raw materials, making them available for research across the entire Common Law world.

The launch of IALS Digital begins a new era for the Institute and its Library, helping to ensure that IALS is well placed to expand open access delivery and support the current and future ambitions of digital legal scholarship. To learn more about IALS Digital, visit ials.sas.ac.uk/digital.

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Sian Astill appointed IALS Archivist and Records Manager

Sian Astill is the new IALS Archivist and Records Manager, replacing Ruth Frendo, who left to take up the post of archivist at The Stationers’ Company. Sian cares for the archival collections of organisations connected with legal education that are held at IALS, responds to enquiries from researchers, and makes

material available for research. Sian also works at the BBC’s Written Archives Centre.

Alex Bussey named Institute Manager

Alex Bussey joined IALS in November 2017 as Institute Manager. He previously served in the University of London’s Vice-Chancellor’s Office and the Planning and Projects Office, and in the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of Historical Research. As Institute Manager, he works closely with the Director on strategic issues and the day-to-day running of the

Institute. He is responsible for managing the Institute’s budget, taking a lead on planning, and overseeing the administration of key activities including fellowships, teaching and training, events, and fundraising. He will be heavily involved in ensuring that the Institute continues to run smoothly during the refurbishment of Clore House. Alex succeeds Dr Conor Wyer, who has taken up the post of Institute Manager at the Institute of Historical Research.

Dr Nóra Ní Loideáin joins IALS as Director of the Information Law and Policy Centre

In May 2017 Dr Nóra Ní Loideáin took up the post of Director and Lecturer in Law of the Information Law and Policy Centre to take forward the work of Dr Judith Townend, who is now a Lecturer in Media and Information Law at the University of Sussex. Dr Loideáin’s research interests focus on governance, human

rights, and technology, particularly in the fields of digital privacy, data protection, and state surveillance.

She is a Visiting Lecturer for the LLM Privacy and Information Law module at King’s College London, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Humanities, and a Research Associate of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law. She was previously an Affiliated Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge. As Senior Research Fellow on the Media and Democracy Project at the University of Johannesburg, Dr Loideáin examined the influence of EU law on the state of the right to privacy and data protection in South Africa, particularly with respect to civil liberties and the development of Cape Town as a smart city. This research contributed to the UN universal periodic review of South Africa’s human rights record in 2017.

Following her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Technology and Democracy Project at the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. She is also an editor of the journal International Data Privacy Law. Prior to her academic career, she was a Legal and Policy Officer for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions of Ireland and clerked for the Irish Supreme Court. Her forthcoming publications include Data Privacy, Serious Crime, and EU Policy-Making (Oxford University Press). She is also a co-author of the forthcoming textbook Data Protection Law and Policy (Oxford University Press).

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The Hon. Justice Mark Weinberg, Senior Pusine Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, was awarded the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 2016–17 Inns of Court Fellowship. Justice Weinberg visited the Institute from October to December 2016 to undertake research on ‘A Fair Trial According to Law – Fundamental Prescript or Pious

Aspiration?’ The aim of this research was to examine legislative and other changes to the law of evidence bearing on this debate. His focus was on the treatment, in both England and Australia and at both trial and appellate level, of multi-count indictments involving sexual offences, and particularly those

involving multiple complainants. A graduate of Monash University and the University of Oxford, Justice Weinberg has published extensively in the fields of criminal law and evidence. His judicial and legal career spans many numerous high-profile positions; prior to his current role, he was Queen’s Counsel, and from 1988 to 1991, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. He has also previously held positions as deputy president of the Federal Police Disciplinary Tribunal, non-resident judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji, judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island. During his visit, Justice Weinberg gave a seminar titled ‘Modern Drafting and the Criminal Law – Does Codification Work?’ and an evening lecture titled ‘The Future of the Jury in Criminal Trials – The Problem of Jury Directions’.

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Future GrowthIALS at 70On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, the Institute and its many friends and colleagues looked back on its development with some pride at its achievements from small beginnings. At a number of anniversary events, the Institute celebrated those achievements and looked forward to further developing its role as a leader in the legal research environment.

In October and November 2017, the Institute mounted an extensive programme of talks and lectures culminating in an event presided over by Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, Chair of the Institute’s Advisory Council, and a grand reception in its events space overlooking Russell Square. Sir Roy Goode, a member of the Institute’s Committee of Management during its move to the present building and author of the Goode Report, discussed its founding and growth. Professor Linda Mulcahy commented on the recent development of the Institute and its future role in legal research. The event concluded with a talk by Nicholas Burwell of Burwell Deakins Architects on how the building can better support the Institute’s mission and plans for the refurbishment (see page 14).

In other events, the Institute demonstrated the broad range of contributions it has made to the promotion and facilitation of legal research, its engagement with interdisciplinary research in law, and the continuing central role of its library in serving generations of scholars in the UK and from around the world:

• Professor Diamond Ashiagbor delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor of Law and Director of Research, ‘Telling Stories about Law and Development’, chaired by Professor Rick Rylance, Dean of the School of Advanced Study (see page 9).

• The annual conference of the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies addressed the legislative aspects of Brexit, a development that will surely require the continued input of the Centre, which trains legislative drafters and brings its expertise to bear on a very wide range of developments in law and society.

• The annual conference of the Information and Law Policy Centre, led by its new Director, Dr Nóra Ní Loideáin, explored the digital rights of children, bringing together policymakers, practitioners, representatives from industry and civil society, and academic experts (see page 5).

• James Michael, Fellow of the Institute and Chair of the Advisory Panel of the Information Law and Policy Centre, gave a talk on the creation of universal rights 70 years ago that included an examination of the personalities involved in the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and developments in this area of law.

• The history of the Institute’s legal workshops was examined in a panel discussion chaired by Professor Diamond Ashiagbor. IALS was one of the first institutions to host academic legal conferences as we know them,

including the WG Hart and predecessor workshops funded by the Ford Foundation. The Institute pioneered other legal education initiatives, as well: it established one of the first doctoral programmes in law and was an early provider of specialist training for legal researchers. The panel included Professor Fiona Cownie, Professor of Law and Pro Vice Chancellor at Keele University, Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas of Queen Mary University of London, and Professor Hilary Sommerlad of the University of Leeds. The discussion explored and celebrated the role the Institute has played in changing the way legal academics engage with research and scholarship, and in providing a neutral space to facilitate research that develops the discipline. (A video of the discussion is available at ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/videos/ials-contribution-legal-scholarship-0.)

• IALS Digital was launched (see page 8). This initiative of the Institute’s library brings together a range of digital legal scholarship and open access publishing

programmes and represents a commitment by the library to engage with the national research community at all points in the scholarly chain of communication, from initial research and the training of new researchers to dissemination of the results of research. IALS Digital has announced an open access publication service for monographs that will complement its platform for the publication of open access journals, and a new agreement with the extraordinarily successful British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) that IALS has hosted and supported since its inception 17 years ago.

The Institute looks forward to expanding its UK and global reach by promoting new research, providing access to and understanding of legal resources and the skills to use them, and services to disseminate the results of research. The Institute will continue to be an international crossroads for legal research in its iconic home on Russell Square, which in 2018 will be renovated to ensure its central role in twenty-first century legal scholarship.

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Beginning in July 2018, a significant and much-needed transformation of the Institute’s purpose-built home at 17 Russell Square will restore and safeguard its status as a state-of-the-art centre for legal research.

After 30 years in one, then two, adjoining terraced houses in Russell Square, IALS outgrew its original premises and moved to a new building designed by celebrated British architect Sir Denys Lasdun. For many years, Clore House – now a Grade II* listed building – enabled IALS to meet the needs of a large community of legal scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students. Its many fine aspects were celebrated during the Institute’s 70th anniversary celebration in 2017.

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Be Part of the IALS Building TransformationPhilanthropic gifts to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies will supplement the University’s support of the refurbishment project. Several naming opportunities are available. For more information, please contact Yvette Rathbone, Development Officer, at yvette.rathbone@london.ac.uk, +44 (0)20 7862 8518.

In 2017, the University of London approved funding to renovate Clore House and chose Burwell Deakins Architects to lead the project. Tasked with the refurbishment of one of the world’s great legal facilities, the firm reconsidered all aspects of the landmark building, including accessibility, technology, work and study environments, and the needs of visitors. The key objectives of the project are to:

• Enhance the entrance to the building

• Enhance and improve the entrance to the Library

• Provide flexible academic space throughout the building that caters for research centres and collaborative interaction between fellows and students

• Increase the number of reader workstations and study carrels in the Library

• Add group study and other flexible spaces at the Library entrance level

• Improve the building’s thermal stability and reduce its carbon footprint

• Ensure that the building’s heating, cooling, and ventilation systems provide an optimal work and study environment for its users

• Upgrade or replace all services installations that are either at or approaching the end of their lifecycle

The refurbishment project will start in July 2018 and last for approximately two years. During that time, the Institute and its library will remain open as the work progresses floor by floor. IALS appreciates the disruption that may be caused and pledges to minimise this as much as possible.

Further details are available on the Institute’s website: ials.sas.ac.uk.

In recent years, however, increased demands have been placed on the building’s aging systems as the need to accommodate a greater scale and scope of legal research, teaching, and public engagement activities has grown. Much of the infrastructure of the building is nearing or has reached the end of its natural working life.

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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies congratulates the following students on the award of their PhDs.

Adeoye Adetunji A Comparative Analysis of the Control of Financial Crime from the Perspective of the UK, USA and Nigeria

Ikani AgabiIndependence and Accountability of Bank Regulator and Supervisor: A Comparative Analysis of UK and Nigerian Banking Regulation

Yeliz BudakTransitional Justice, Amnesty Laws and the Kurdish Issue in Turkey

Keith JonesThe Rights of Employers and Employees under Employment Law and Trade Unionism in England and Wales

Nastja PusicBalancing the Interests between TNCs and Host Developing States – The Role of Law

Mohammad Naffa The Role of International Financial Institutions in Promoting Stability in the Face of Financial Misconduct and the Possible Contribution that Islamic Finance Can Make to Stability

Sirajo YakubuA Critical Appraisal of the Law and Practice Relating to Money Laundering in the USA and UK

Tatyana GibbsAn Analysis of the Effectiveness of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Funding Legislation and its Administration in the UAE

Stefania Barichello Stefania, who died suddenly in March 2017, was awarded a posthumous PhD at the School of Advanced Study’s graduation ceremony on Friday, 8 December 2017, in the presence of her parents.

The title of her thesis was Refugee Protection and Responsibility Sharing in Latin America: The Mexico Plan of Action during the Period 2004-2014.

Selected Staff PublicationsDavid Gee‘SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2015/2016’, Legal Information Management, 17, no. 4 (2017), pp 245–64

Guest Editorial – ‘Key Sources for International Law Research’, Legal Information Management, 17, no. 2 (2017), p 74 (sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6514/)

Nóra Ní Loideáin‘Cape Town as a Smart and Safe City: Implications for Governance and Data Privacy’ (2017) 7(4) International Data Privacy Law: 314

‘Greater Power Should Come with Greater Accountability: Revisiting the Roles of Data Controllers and Processors’, Provocation Paper, Data Management and Use: Governance in the 21st Century, British Academy and Royal Society Report, 16 October 2017

Editorial, ‘The GDPR as a Chance to Break Down Borders’ (2017) 7(4) International Data Privacy Law: 231 (co-author)

‘Review of R. Jay, Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation’ (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2017) 22(4)  Communications Law: 140

Constantin Stefanou‘Freedom of Movement: European Migration in Times of Crisis’, Talking Humanities, 30 November 2017 (talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/category/projects/)

Steven Whittle‘OBserving Law — Developing the IALS Open Book Service for Law’, The Reporter: The Newsletter of the Society of Legal Scholars, 54 (Spring 2017), pp 4–5

Jules Winterton‘Online Access to Legal Doctrine’ in La dottrina giuridica e la sua diffusione edited by Sebastiano Faro and Ginevra Periginelli (Torino: G. Giappichelli Editore, 2017), pp 147–170

PhD Awards 2016–17

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Funding Body Grants (HEFCE) 452,839 1,151,884

Other Grants 38,136 -

Tuition Fees and Educational Contracts 468,748 -

Research Grants and Contracts 164,811 -

Subscriptions from Colleges 69,410 936,290

Commercial Income 247,838 5,915

Other Income 26,369 178,081

Donations 85,705 -

Finance and Endowment Income 8,545 3,500

Internal Income 157,708 334,263

Total Income 1,720,110 2,609,933

Expenditure

Staff Costs 932,603 929,239

Professional Fees 18,369 -

Estates Expenditure 50,843 18,133

Academic Expenditure 19,487 801,418

Information Technology 8,709 12,049

Administrative Expenditure 98,866 40,041

Finance Expenditure 6 546

Other Operating Expenses 61,730 -

Internal Charges and Recharges 476,846 825,480

Total Expenditure 1,667,459 2,626,906

Surplus/(Deficit) 52,651 (16,973)

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Members of the Library 5,797

Volumes in the Library 311,880

Visits to the Library 89,541

Digital Views 62,994,105

Conferences, seminars and workshops

Number of events 86

Number of participants from across the UK 3,335

Number of participants from the rest of the world 662

Total number of participants in events 3,997

Research training provided

Number of research training events 78

Number of participants from across the UK 1,929

Number of participants from across the rest of the world 119

Total number of participants in research training events 2,048

Staff and fellowsIALS staff 45

Visiting Fellows 16

Associate Research Fellows 57

StudentsPostgraduate taught 9

Postgraduate research 69

Distance learning 6

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