Todays Events at IALS
IALS hosts a number of workshops, lectures and conferences. For todays listing, see todays events.

IALS Global Law Library: Winter newsletter now available
Included in this issue: news on the forthcoming IALS national training days for MPhil and PhD students, Hester Swift reports on the IALL conference, held in Kuala Lumpar in December, along with our regular books page. The newsletter is now available online.

Free Access to Legal Information - Video and Slides from Professor Graham Greenleaf's lecture at IALS
The video presentation and slides from Professor Greenleaf's lecture are now available from the IALS website

Library System upgrade: after 18:30pm Sunday 15th January 2012
The library catalogue at ials.sas.ac.uk/catalogue.htm and catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk will be unavailable from 18:30 on Sunday, 15th January for an estimated 120 minutes. This planned downtime is to allow for essential system changes. We are sorry that some online services will be unavailable during the upgrade.

Extension of IALS Library Opening Hours 2012
IALS Global Law Library is very pleased to announce that we will be extending our normal opening hours in the period from Monday 9th January to Friday 15th June 2012 . We will open longer on weekdays and additionally on Sundays. Hours: Monday to Friday: 9.00am to 11.00pm (current IALS Library card and SAScard holders only after 7.45pm); Saturday: 10.00am to 5.30pm; Sunday: 12.30pm to 6.30pm (current IALS Library card and SAScard holders only)

New Course in 2012: Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration
This five-day intensive course that will run from Monday 14th May to Friday 18th May, is aimed at introducing participants to international commercial and investment arbitration. The course covers the foundations of arbitration, contractual issues, choice of law, appointment of arbitrators and their powers, conduct of proceedings and other procedural matters and the role of national courts. By the end of the course it is expected that participants will possess a solid understanding of arbitration law and practice. For further information, please contact Academic Programmes Manager, Belinda Crothers - Email: Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk

Rare translation of the medjelle or Ottoman civil law digitised by IALS
The Institute has just completed work on the digitisation of a rare English translation of the Medjellè or Ottoman civil law. A full text PDF version is now freely available from our Library catalogue record.

IALS Global Law Library: Autumn newsletter now available
The IALS Global Law Library newsletter is now available online. This issue includes a review of the IALL international handbook of legal information; an update at FLARE index to treaties and look at the new IALS banners.

IALS launches Amicus Curiae online - SAS Open Journals
Amicus Curiae, the official journal of both the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies, is now available online from issue 46 (2003) to the pre-current issue. As a result of a recent successful JISC-funded project to create an Open Journals publishing system in the School of Advanced Study linked to the School's e-repository SAS-Space, the Institute is pleased to make its journal, Amicus Curiae available online.

Professor Kern Alexander and the Draft Financial Services Bill
Professor Kern Alexander, Senior Research Fellow at IALS, has been appointed Specialist Adviser and Counsel to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on the Draft Financial Services Bill. The Select Committee will meet and hold hearings during September and October. This appointment runs from September 2011 until early January 2012.

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