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London Debates 2009. What role do museums play in the globalisation of culture ?
No full textThis report underlines the central role museums play in the globalisation of culture, and sets out action points to guide academic research, museum practice and policy-making. A report presenting the most important results of the London Debates, led at the School of Advanced Study in May 2009
Sports contracts in Italy
No full textAn article by Mario Serio (Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Palermo, Italy), taken from his presentation at the International Academy of Legal Science conference held at the University of Istanbul in May 2010. The author focuses on the Italian experience of sports contracts and the way relationships between athletes and their employers may be governed in particular legal systems, including protection through implementation within sports bodies. The article is published in Amicus Curiae – Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by SALS at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
A Working-class Heroine Is Also Something To Be: The Untold Story of Cuban Railway Workers and the Struggle against Batista
No full textWhen researching the biographical details of working class women, we are not only faced with that "enormous condescension of history" which EP Thompson criticized when writing about the history of working class movements, we also find that working class women are doubly "hidden from history" by the assumption that organised labour is male. However in Cuba in the 1950s, there were many important strikes which were initiated and sustained by women workers. When a group of office workers from the central Cuban town of Camagüey, the principal hub of the railway network covering the eastern part of the island, first heard of their employers' intention to impose wage cuts and redundancies, these women launched a wave of resistance by picketing the train drivers and maintenance engineers. The story of the railway women of Camagüey encourages us to look more closely into other working class struggles to seek the contributions made by women.
The paper will examine the part played by working class women in the fight against the Batista dictatorship for, in addition to the women of Camagüey, we can find examples of militant activity from shop workers who started at least two town-wide general strikes and female office workers in the electrical supply industry who led demonstrations in a fight over trade union democracy. Sugar and dock workers' families organised vital solidarity action in the face of police violence, while women frequently took over picketing when their menfolk had to go into hiding to avoid being forced to return to work at gunpoint.
The paper will argue that women workers, while only 10 percent of the Cuban workforce in the 1950s, played a part in the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship out of all proportion to their numbers
The German Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (limited partnership with shares)
No full textAn overview of the German law governing limited partnership companies with shares (Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien). The author outlines: the historical background, applicable rules of law, formation, structure, organisation and financial provisions of a KGaA
Archbishop Temple’s offer of a Lambeth degree to Dorothy L. Sayers
No full textIn 1943 William Temple offered the honorary Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity to the novelist, writer and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers; an offer that after some lengthy consideration she refused. This article considers the reasons for her refusal, and situtates them in the context of the wider relationship between the Church of England and the 'Christian writer' in the period.
This is the introduction to an edition of the correspondence between the two; the letters themselves are not included for reasons of copyright
Russia revealed: a Senate House Library case study of special collection promotion
No full textAbout promotion of the M.S. Anderson Collection of Writings about Russia 1525-1917, given to Senate House Library, University of London, in 2008
Filling the frame – the role of practical metadata in online resources at the IALS
No full textAn 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)
Pre-packed administration begins to take shape
No full textArticle by Dr Peter Walton, Reader in Law and Director of the Legal Practice Course, University of Wolverhampton. The author looks at media and public debate around the increasing use of pre-packed administration ("pre-pack") in the handling of insolvency cases in the UK and considers in particular whether the reactions of the regulator and profession have gone far enough to counter fully the criticisms levelled at pre-packs