International Association of Law Libraries

Complete List of names of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Law Libraries for the term 2010 - 2013

(The inaugural meeting of the new Board will be held in The Hague in September.)

Officers

• President: Petal Kinder, High Court of Australia Library, Canberra, Australia
• First Vice President: Jeroen Vervliet, the Peace Palace Library, The Hague, Netherlands
• Second Vice President: Jennefer Aston, Bar Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
• Secretary: Barbara Garavaglia, University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
• Treasurer: Xinh Luu, University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, Virginia USA

Board Members

• Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Library, Oxford University, Oxford, England
• Mark Engsberg, of International Journal of Legal Information ex officio
• Ligita Gjortlere, Riga Graduate School of Law Library, Riga, Latvia
• Marci Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley, ex officio
• Janis L. Johnston, University of Illinois Library, Illinois, USA
• Uma Narayan, Bombay High Court Library, Mumbai, India
• Pedro Padilla-Rosa, University of Puerto Rico Law Library, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Anita Soboleva, JURIX: "Jurists for Constitutional Rights and Freedoms", Moscow, Russia
• Bård Tuseth, University of Oslo Law Library, Oslo, Norway
• Ivo Vogel, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Jules Winterton, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, England

February 2010 – Announcement by the Secretary on the process for the election of the Board 2010-13

Dear IALL Member,

On behalf of the Nominations Committee of the International Association of Law Libraries, I am pleased to inform you of the slate of candidates proposed by the Committee for Officers and Members of the Board of Directors for the term 2010 – 2013 (see below).

Article V1 of the Constitution states:

The Officers of the Association shall consist of the President, First Vice -President, Second Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer to be elected by the regular members of the Association….

Article V11 specifies the composition of the Board of Directors:

The Board of Directors shall consist of the officers specified in Article V1, eight additional members, and the immediate Past President. Five of the Board members shall be elected by the regular members of the Association and three shall be appointed by the outgoing Board of Directors...

(The full text of the Constitution can be found at the Associations website at http://www.iall.org).

As directed by Article V11 of the Constitution, I am submitting the list of candidates proposed by the Nominations Committee to all members for 60 days from the date of mailing. During this period, names of regular members may also be submitted as candidates for any elected office by petition signed by ten or more regular members and submitted to the Secretary by mail to the address below. If further nominations are received, an election by written ballot containing the names submitted will be held. If no further names of nominees are submitted, the names submitted by the Nominations Committee will be elected by acclamation without ballot.

The membership will be informed of the results by 1 July 2010.

Yours sincerely,

Jennefer Aston, Secretary IALL
The Law Library
PO Box 4460
Dublin 7, Ireland

List of Candidates for the Board of Directors of the International Association of Law Libraries

2010-2013

Proposed by the Nominations Committee

Officers

• President: Petal Kinder, High Court of Australia Library, Canberra, Australia
• First Vice President: Jeroen Vervliet, the Peace Palace Library, The Hague, Netherlands
• Second Vice President: Jennefer Aston, Bar Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
• Secretary: Barbara Garavaglia, University of Michigan Law Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
• Treasurer: Xinh Luu, University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, Virginia USA

Board Members

• Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Library, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
• Ligita Gjortlere, Riga Graduate School of Law Library, Riga, Latvia.
• Uma Narayan, Bombay High Court Library, Mumbai, India.
• Pedro Padilla-Rosa, University of Puerto Rico Law Library, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Anita Soboleva, JURIX: "Jurists for Constitutional Rights and Freedoms", Moscow, Russia.

December 2008 - New Board Members

In December 2008, Second Vice-President Halvor Kongshavn and Board Member Amanda Barratt stepped down from the Board because of successful career moves. The Board congratulates them and thanks them for their service to the Association.

The Board has appointed two new members to the Board for the remainder of the 2007-2010 term:

Pedro A. Padilla-Rosa of the University of Puerto Rico Law Library and one of the co-Chairs of the 2008 conference Local Organising Committee, and

Jeroen Vervliet, Director of the Peace Palace Library in the Hague, the Local Organiser of the 2010 Conference.

The post of Second Vice-President has not been assigned.

(As of December 6th, 2008)

IALL appoints Nominations Committee

Lisbeth Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen) as Chair, Blair Kauffman (Yale Law School) and Holger Knudsen (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg) have been appointed to form the Nominations Committee for the 2007 IALL elections.

Dear IALL Members:

On behalf of the Nomination Committee of the International Association of Law Libraries, I am pleased to inform the members of the proposed slate of candidates for Officers and Members of the Board of Directors for the term 2007 – 2010.

Article V1 of the Constitution states:

The Officers of the Association shall consist of the President, First Vice -President, Second Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer to be elected by the regular members of the Association...

Article V11 specifies the composition of the Board of Directors:

The Board of Directors shall consist of the officers specified in Article V1, eight additional members, and the immediate Past President. Five of the Board members shall be elected by the regular members of the Association and three shall be appointed by the outgoing Board of Directors...

(The full text of the Constitution can be found at the Associations website.)

As directed by Article V11 of the Constitution, I am submitting the proposed list of candidates to all members for 60 days from the date of mailing. During this period, names of regular members may also be submitted as candidates for any elected office by petition signed by ten or more regular members and submitted to the Secretary by mail to the address below. If further nominations are received, an election by written ballot containing the names submitted will be held. If no further names of nominees are submitted, the names submitted by the Nominations Committee will be elected by acclamation without ballot.

The membership will be informed of the results by July 1, 2007.

Yours sincerely,

Ann Morrison, Secretary IALL
Sir James Dunn Law Library
Dalhousie University
6301 University Avenue
Halifax NS. Canada B3H 4H9

Proposed List of Candidates for the Board of Directors of the International Association of Law Libraries: 2007 – 2010

Officers

• President: Jules Winterton, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, England.
• First Vice President: Richard Danner, Duke University Law School, Raleigh North Carolina U.S.A.
• Second Vice President: Halvor Kongshavn, University of Bergen Library, Norway
• Secretary: Jennefer Aston, Bar Council of Ireland Library, Dublin, Ireland.
• Treasurer: Ann Morrison, Dalhousie University Law Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Board Members

• Amanda Barratt, Brand Van Zyl Law Library, University of Capetown, South Africa.
• Petal Kinder, High Court of Australia Library, Canberra, Australia.
• Xinh Luu, University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, Virginia U.S.A.
• Ruth Bird, Bodleian Law Library, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
• Ligita Gjortlere, Riga Graduate School of Law Library, Riga, Latvia.