UL appoints Jules Winterton as Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

School of Advanced Study, University of London

The School of Advanced Study, University of London is pleased to announce the appointment of Jules Winterton to the post of Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). IALS is the UK’s national centre for the support and promotion of research in law.

Jules is Librarian and Associate Director of IALS and has been Acting Director of the Institute since mid-2012.  He is Convenor of the Libraries Sub-Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars, a member of the Board of Trustees of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute, a visiting Associate Professor at the Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana, a Board member of the Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and a former member of the Board of LLMC Digital (the online platform of the non-profit Law Library Microform Consortium).

He received the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award from the American Association of Law Libraries in 2012 for the International Handbook of Legal Information Management.

Jules has served as President of the International Association of Law Libraries from 2004 until 2010 and received the Wildy-BIALL Librarian of the Year award in June 2010. He was Chair of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians in 1994/95 and received its Wallace Breem Memorial Award in 1998 for Information Sources in Law (2nd edition). He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and at the University of Florence.

Professor Roger Kain FBA, Dean and Chief Executive of the School of Advanced Study, commented: ‘Jules is a significant figure in the fields of law librarianship, legal information provision and legal bibliography. He has already proven himself to be a real asset to IALS, which holds the UK’s national legal research library, one of the world’s outstanding libraries in its field.

As part of the School of Advanced Study, IALS plays a leading national and international role in the support and promotion of research in law, and in particular in the provision of legal research information at a time when many universities are unable to maintain broad research collections. Jules’ substantial experience and expertise have contributed to making the Institute a pioneer in the application of digital technology to make legal research resources and materials freely available internationally. Jules has exciting plans for further activities and I look forward hugely to developing these with him.’

Professor Sir Adrian Smith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, said: ‘I am delighted that Jules Winterton will be taking the helm at the IALS.  He commands the respect of the legal community both academic and practising and will be a tremendous asset to the already enviable reputation of the University and the Institute.’

Jules Winterton will take up his position at a date to be agreed.