Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
| Type | Law school |
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| Established | 1947 |
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Parent institution
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School of Advanced Study, University of London |
| Chairman | Rt Hon Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill |
| Director | Jules Winterton |
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Academic staff
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Diamond Ashiagbor (Director of Research); Constantin Stefanou (Director of Taught Programmes) |
| Location | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | ials |
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The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) is a member institute of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Founded in 1947, it is a national academic centre of excellence, serving the legal community and universities across the United Kingdom and the world through legal scholarship, facilities, and its comparative law library.
The unique mission of the Institute is to be "the focal point of legal research for the United Kingdom and the countries of the British Commonwealth." The Institute is home to world-renowned scholars in the areas of legislative drafting and international financial regulation and drives cutting-edge legal inquiry through its comparative research library.
Since 1976, the Institute’s home has been Charles Clore House, located in the heart of Bloomsbury, at 17 Russell Square.
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies was established in 1947 in response to recommendations made in 1932 by Lord Atkin that the United Kingdom needed an institution "which would be a headquarters for academic research and would promote the advancement of knowledge of the law in the most general terms." On 11 June 1948, the Institute was officially opened by the Lord Chancellor, William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt. The first director was Professor Sir David Hughes Parry, a distinguished Professor of English Law at the London School of Economics and for many years Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. The Librarian, K. Howard Drake also acted as administrative secretary for the Institute.
Housed at 25 Russell Square, the Institute occupied all floors of the building, the ground and first floors reserved for the library with rooms on the second and third converted into offices or study/seminar rooms. The library held 11,000 books in its first year, a substantial number donated by Dr. Charles Huberich. An internal telephone system connected all the rooms with a hand book lift installed to move books from floor to floor.
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