Steven Whittle

Names have been Changed: …extracts from an AALL Conference Diary 2001

Report on a visit to the 94th annual meeting and conference of the American Association of Law Libraries, Minneapolis 2001. Includes notes on a Foreign Law Source presentation on SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway.Preprint of an article by Steven Whittle, Information Systems Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, published in Legal Information Management, the journal of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.

Amicus Curiae Pro Bono Publico - open access online publication at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

This paper describes recent work at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London to provide open online access to the IALS/SALS official journal Amicus Curiae and selected papers from the Institute’s annual W G Hart Legal Workshop. It discusses some of the issues involved in a transition from print to web publication and looks at the benefits anticipated from additional web delivery.

Filling the frame – the role of practical metadata in online resources at the IALS

An article describing the use of metadata in a range of online national legal resources developed at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London.Preprint of an article by Steven Whittle, Information Systems Manager, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, to be published in Legal Information Management, the journal of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL).

Telling Legal Backstories: Making Historic Case Papers from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Available to All Online

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies holds copies of case papers of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). Steven Whittle describes the recent open access initiative at the IALS, working with BAILII to provide online access to historic case papers of appeals from over 35 countries from the period 1935 to 1985. These are cases of the highest importance in the legal development of each of the countries and to the development of common law shared by many countries worldwide.

Intute: Law – finding the best of the Web for Law

Preprint of an article by Heather Memess, Intute Law Project Officer and Steve Whittle, Information Systems Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, published in Legal Information Management, the journal of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.