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March 2019

In this Issue IALS Spring Newsletter 2019

Our transformed 4th floor reading room is now open! We are very pleased to announce that the newly transformed 4th floor reading room is now open. Since the 4th floor was closed last year, work has taken place to open out the space to make a bigger and lighter reading room.

Secondary glazing, new radiators and a new cooling system have been installed to cut down on noise from outside and allow greater control over the temperature. Brand new desks, chairs and lighting will also help make it a more comfortable place to work. Each desk now comes with its own power sockets for you to charge your laptop or other devices and many of the desks have their own lamp.

The work doesn’t end here as the transformation of the 3rd floor reading room is already underway. We would like to remind all of our readers that the library will remain open throughout the works, with access to collections uninterrupted. We would also like to thank readers for their patience whilst this much needed work takes place.

News compiled and distributed by: Alice Tyson

Access Librarian

Alice.tyson@sas.ac.uk

Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

IALS Transformation

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Training at the IALS Library

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IALS Library Roadshows

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IALS E-Resources

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Book News

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People News

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All new desks and lighting

Desk with a view over Russell Square

One of the new private study carrels

postgraduate students. The platform offers collections on national and international tax law and cross-border investments covering every country in the world, as well as journal articles and e-books on general and specialized tax issues. On 4th February 2019, IBFD launched a new Tax Research Platform with the aim of improving ease of use, search and navigation. A preview of the new platform can be viewed here https://www.ibfd.org/IBFD-Tax-Portal/News/Coming-Soon-Preview-New-Tax-Research-Platform You can access the IBFD Tax Research Platform via IALS Electronic Law Library or directly from the library catalogue http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3047460~S6 Cambridge Core Law E-books The Library’s subscription to Cambridge Core collection of legal e-books has been extended until the end of October 2019. You can search and access all our legal Cambridge Core e-books here http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/ record=b3389770~S6, and they are also individually listed on our library catalogue (around 200 titles have been recently added to the IALS catalogue). There is full text access to all these e-books onsite and offsite for all our academic members, and you can print and save chapters in pdf format. At the end of this academic year the most heavily used legal e-books from Cambridge Core will be purchased outright for perpetual access. Westlaw UK E-books Collection Westlaw UK e-books collection features about 250 commentary titles, including many market-leading textbooks and loose-leafs. Full text access is offered onsite at IALS to all our non-commercial members. Remote access is available to IALS staff, fellows and students. You can search and access the entire collection here: http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2753801~S6 (on the Westlaw UK homepage, select ‘Books’). The e-books are also individually listed on our library catalogue and you can search the library catalogue to access a specific e-book. See example here http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3501086~S6. You can email, print or download sections or paragraphs from the e-books.

Training at IALS Library: finding legal journal articles and OSCOLA During March the Library will be running training sessions which all postgraduate law students, researchers and academics registered with IALS Library are welcome to attend. Finding Legal Journal Articles for your Essay, Dissertation or Thesis will go over the basics of how to find relevant articles, from understanding the citation to selecting a database and using advanced search techniques. The OSCOLA session will familiarise attendees with citing their work using the OSCOLA system. If you can’t make it to these sessions, or want to ask us about something else, you can book a one-to-one session with a reference librarian by emailing us at ials@sas.ac.uk. Finding Legal Journal Articles for Your Essay, Dissertation or Thesis Monday 20 March, 2pm to 3pm. Book here. Introduction to OSCOLA Thursday 21 March, 3 to 4pm. Book here.

IALS Library Roadshows IALS Library is the national research library for law. As part of our national role, each year the librarians at IALS visit PhD students and academic staff at universities across the UK. We call this the IALS Library Roadshow! At the roadshow we talk about our collections and how researchers can access them, what resources we make available online and the training offered by the library staff. If you want to know more about the roadshows, or would like to arrange a visit to your law school, email the IALS Access Librarian, alice.tyson@sas.ac.uk.

IALS Library E-resources Highlights Dalia Maoz-Michaels, Senior Library Assistant (cataloguing & acquisitions) IBFD launches New Tax Research Platform IBFD Tax Research Platform is a subscription database, available onsite to all our academic members and offsite to IALS & SAS staff, fellows and students, and University of London law staff and

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the emerging democracies of the global south or is more widespread across all constitutional systems. Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women Helena Kennedy (Chatto & Windus, 2018) Helena Kennedy’s 1992 critique of the British justice system led to a number of key reforms for women. In this new book, she examines pressing evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called ‘lifestyle’ choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current rules on excluding victims’ sexual history from rape trials; battered wives being asked why they don’t ‘just leave’ their partners; the way statistics hide the double discrimination experienced by BAME and disabled women; the failure to prosecute cases of female genital mutilation. The #MeToo campaign has been in part a reaction to those failures. So what comes next? How do we codi-fy what we've learned? In this richly detailed and shocking book, one of our most eminent human rights thinkers and practitioners shows with force and fury that change for women must start at the heart of what makes society just. Citizenship in Africa: the Law of Belonging Bronwen Manby (Hart, 2018) “A child born in Kailahun district of north east Sierra Leone as a member of the Kissi people is likely to have extended family across three countries. The district forms a promontory of territory between Liberia and Guinea; an anomaly created by the classic ruthless division of existing socio-political units by colonial borders. Each of the three countries has entirely different formal legal traditions, and entirely different rules on who qualifies for its nationality …”-- Ch. 1 Through a comprehensive exploration of nationality laws in Africa, placing them in theoretical and historical context, Citizenship in Africa offers the first serious attempt to analyse the impact of nationality law on politics and society in African states from a trans-continental comparative perspective. Parts I and II set the book within the framework of existing scholarship on citizenship, from both sociological and legal perspectives, and examine the history of nationality laws in Africa from the colonial period to the present day. Part III considers case studies which illustrate the application and misapplication of the law in practice, and the relationship of legal and political developments in each country. Part IV explores the impact of the law on politics, and its relevance for questions of identity and `belonging' today, concluding with a set of issues for further research.

Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the History of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty (Hart/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) Commemorating the centenary this year of women's admission to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland, this fascinating book identifies the key landmarks in women's legal history. Over 80 authors write about landmarks that represent a significant achievement or turning point in women's engagement with law and law reform. The landmarks cover a wide range of topics, including matrimonial property, the right to vote, prostitution, surrogacy and assisted reproduction, rape, domestic violence, FGM, equal pay, abortion, image-based sexual abuse, and the ordination of women bishops, as well as the life stories of women who were the first to undertake key legal roles and positions. Together the landmarks offer a scholarly intervention in the recovery of women's lost history and in the development of methodology of feminist legal history as well as a demonstration of women's agency and activism in the achievement of law reform and justice. The Evolution of the Separation of Powers: Between the Global North and the Global South David Bilchitz and David Landau (Elgar, 2018) To what extent should the doctrine of the separation of powers evolve in light of recent shifts in constitutional design and practice? New constitutions often include newer forms of rights - such as socio-economic and environmental rights - and are written with an explicitly transformative purpose. The practice of the separation of powers has also changed, as the executive has tended to gain power and deliberative bodies like legislatures have often been thrown into a state of crisis. The chapters in this edited volume grapple with these shifts and whether they are mostly a product of the constitutional systems of the global south, or instead reflect changes that run across most liberal democratic constitutional systems around the world. By engaging widespread comparative experiences from Malawi, to Colombia, Mexico to South Africa, Hungary to the United States of America, this examination of the doctrine of the separation of powers takes into account important recent changes in constitutional design and practice, including the wide-spread inclusion of socio-economic rights, the creation of independent bodies outside the traditional structure, the growth of executive power, and the crisis of legislative legitimacy. It also considers the extent to which this reframing should be confined to

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information management and was previously the IALS Deputy Librarian. Currently he is the Secretary of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and an officer of its Board. He was a member of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) Council and the CPD25 Steering Group (the training arm of the M25 Consortium of university libraries in the London area). He was also a member of the Editorial Board of Legal Information Management for many years and has published extensively in professional journals. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and in 2012 was awarded the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Level 5 Diploma in Management and leadership. He is a CMI Chartered Manager.

People News

Jules Winterton, who was IALS Director and Librarian, retired at the end of December 2018. Jules was the Librarian at IALS since 1991, and from 2013 he combined the roles of Director and Librarian. Jules is well known in the field of law librarianship; in 2018 he was the recipient of a Life Membership Award from the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) in recognition of his many contributions to the field. Jules will continue to be involved with IALS as a Senior Associate Research Fellow. IALS is very pleased to welcome our new director, Professor Carl Stychin. Carl joins us from The City Law School, City, University of London, where he served as Dean from 2012 to 2018. He studied law in Canada at the University of Toronto and in the United States at Columbia University. He began his career at Keele University and subsequently worked at the University of Reading, where he was a Professor of Law and held a number of management roles. Carl is currently the Editor of Social & Legal Studies and is Chair of the Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools (CHULS). He has an interest in professional regulation and works with a number of regulators as well as being Vice-Chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority. David Gee was promoted to the role of IALS Librarian in January 2019. David has more than 30 years’ experience of working in academic libraries and legal

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News produced in PDF format by Lindsey Caf-fin, Principal Library Assistant—Computing Ser-vices (Information Systems) News compiled and distributed to UK law schools and libraries by: Alice Tyson Access Librarian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies University of London 17 Russell Square London WC1B 5DR E-mail: alice.tyson@sas.ac.uk Telephone: 020 7862 5790 Twitter: @ials_law