Wildy Law Librarian of the Year Winners
The Wildy BIALL Law Librarian of the Year Award was established in 2005. From 2007 it became the responsibility of the Awards & Bursaries Committee (ABC) who now administer this extremely prestigious award. The award is generously sponsored by Wildy & Sons Ltd
Current Holder
2010: Jules Winterton of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library in London
Jules Winteron is one of BIALL's most distinguished members. This is a law librarian who has represented the law libraryy profession in many different forums and has a C.V. packed with achievement. He heralds from the academic side of the legal information world and he has been highly influential and has always remained at the forefront of developments in legal information provision throughout his career. He has published widely in the professional literature, spoken at conferences and been visiting fellow, lecturer and professor at a number of different institutions, not least the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law in Hamburg and the Coordinamento Centrale Biblioteche at the University of Florence. Where BIALL is concerned he has been Chairman (1994/95) and has played an active role in various capacities within the Association for many years. He is also involved with the Society of Legal Scholars (as Convener of the Libraries Committee), is a member of the Board of Directors and a Trustee for the BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) project and he is Chair of the FLARE group concerned with foreign legal research issues. These represent are just some of his accomplishments.
Perhaps even more notable even than these achievements is that fact that since 1995 Jules Winterton has been involved with IALL, the International Association of Law Libraries, of which is currently President and has been so since 2004, having previously acted as Vice-President. In 1998 he jointly won the Wallace Breem Memorial Award, together with the late Betty Moys, for editing the invaluable second edition of the book ‘Information Sources in Law' published by Bowker-Saur. And all this while carrying out his duties in his demanding ‘day-job' as Associate Director and Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies !
Previous winners
2009: James Mullan - CMS Cameron McKenna
2008: David Hart, - Dundee University Law Library
2007: Guy Holborn, Lincolns Inn Library
2006: Peter Clinch, Law Library - University of Cardiff
