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The Association has its own journal, Legal
Information Management, which is
published on a quarterly basis by Cambridge
University Press and available both in print
and in electronic format. In addition, BIALL
published the Handbook of Legal
Information Management (with Ashgate
Publishing) in 2006 with a second addition
currently being planned. The Directory of
British and Irish Law Libraries (now in its 8th
edition) is another example of the
Association’s publishing prowess.
The BIALL President’s term of office is one
year with a three year commitment in total
(serving as President-Elect, President and
Immediate Past President). The President
chairs four Council Meetings during the year
as well as the AGM held during the annual
conference, the next of which takes place at
The Sage Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne
between 16 and 18 June 2011. The theme of
PROGRAMME IN EUROPEAN
PRIVATE LAW FOR
POSTGRADUATES (PEPP)
Since 2010 the Faculty has been participating
in the Programme in European Private Law
for Postgraduates (PEPP) which is organised
by the University of Hamburg. The other
partners are the Bucerius Law School and
the Max Planck Institute for Comparative
and International Private Law (both in
Hamburg/Germany), the Silesian University
(Katowice/Poland), the Cardinal Stefan
Wyszynski University (Warsaw/Poland) and
the University of Valencia (Spain). The
programme offers scholarships to
FACULTY LAUNCHES SSRN
RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
The Law Faculty has launched a Research
Paper Series (RPS) on the Social Science
Research Network (SSRN) to showcase and
distribute research papers and work by our
Faculty.
SSRN is a multi-disciplinary online repository
of scholarly research and related material. A
key feature of SSRN is that it provides the
opportunity to share and distribute research
well before it is published in journals. SSRN's
motto correspondingly is “Tomorrow's
Research Today”.
All research submitted by our Faculty
members to SSRN is now showcased on a
customized page complete with the
Faculty’s logo and web links. For each
working paper in the Law Faculty’s SSRN
RPS repository, there is an abstract of the
paper, contact information and links to the
full, downloadable text within the eLibrary.
this, the 42nd Annual Study Conference and
Exhibition, will be “Sharing experience –
building best practice models for the legal
information profession”.
It is the first time that a librarian from the
University of Cambridge has been elected to
President (formerly referred to as the Chair)
of the Association. However, Cambridge has
had considerable involvement with the
Association in the past. BIALL has staged its
conference in Cambridge on two occasions -
at Sidney Sussex College in 1979 and at
Newnham College in 1986. Moreover, in
1998 the Squire Law Library hosted, on
behalf of BIALL, the inaugural Joint Study
Institute, a biennial event organised with the
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
and the Canadian Association of Law
Libraries / Association Canadienne des
Bibliotheques de Droit (CALL/ACBD).
David Wills says, ‘It is a very great honour to
postgraduate students of the participating
institutions who work in the field of private
law in the European context. Up to six
successful applicants from each institution
visit Hamburg, Katowice, Cambridge and
Valencia each year for up to a week of
intensive lectures, seminars and workshops.
The aim is not only to give the participants
better understanding of the differences
between the legal approaches in the
European jurisdictions and legal traditions,
to develop their research skills and broaden
their knowledge of comparative legal
method and European law, but also to help
them build a European network of early
Recent papers submitted by Faculty
members to SSRN are also being distributed
in a customized eJournal. SSRN distributes
the eJournal by e-mail to thousands of
subscribers worldwide. The first issue was
sent to subscribers in December 2010.
The editors of the RPS are Professor Brian R.
Cheffins, Ms Jo Miles and Mr Daniel Bates,
the Freshfields Legal IT Teaching and
Development Officer.
The Law Faculty’s affiliation with SSRN
means that LawLink readers can keep up
readily with Faculty research.
have been elected President of the British
and Irish Association of Law Librarians and I
look forward to working with my colleagues
as we continue to promote our work and
support all areas of the legal profession.’
SLS and BIALL have a history of
collaboration. SLS takes a great interest in
law libraries within the academic sector and,
since 1995, has drafted a statement of
standards for university law library provision
in the United Kingdom. This was most
recently revised in 2009 and prepared by the
Libraries Sub-Committee of SLS. The report
on the standards for ‘A Library for the
Modern Law School’ has been
complemented by an annual survey of
academic law libraries sponsored
alternatively by SLS and BIALL. The results of
these surveys have been published in the
BIALL journal Legal Information
Management.
career researchers.
The first leg, in which four Cambridge
postgraduates took part in Hamburg 12-16
October 2010, was centred on the theme of
Europeanisation of private law. Speakers and
participants included leading academics,
practitioners and government officials. The
next session took place in Kattowice on
January 2011, followed by Cambridge in
March before it finishes in Valencia in June
2011. For further information please see
http://www.pepp-home.eu/ or contact the
Cambridge organiser, Dr Jens M. Scherpe
(jms233@cam.ac.uk).
To view papers in the Faculty’s SSRN RPS,
use the link: http://www.ssrn.com/link/U-
Cambridge-LEG.html.
Those who would like to subscribe to receive
the Law Faculty’s SSRN eJournal by email can
do so for free by using the link: http://
hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfmlink=U-
Cambridge-LEG
We hope that LawLink readers will take
advantage soon of our affiliation with SSRN.
If you have any questions, please feel free to
contact Daniel Bates at db298@cam.ac.uk.
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