This year's Hamlyn Lecture will be taking place next week at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The timing will make it awkward for many Birkbeck students to attend but I thought that I'd flag it up as it looks like an interesting event.
Speaker: Professor Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM
(Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, DCL, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple,
Professor of the Law of England and a
Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford.
Chair: Elizabeth Gardiner, First Parliamentary Counsel
Lecture Description: How might we improve the quality of
our statutes? In this lecture, and drawing on the experience of having been a
Law Commissioner for England and Wales, a number of different avenues are
explored. These include the style of statutory drafting, the role of
Parliamentary Counsel, pre and post-legislative scrutiny, and the work of the
Law Commission in respect of consolidation and statute law repeals.
This lecture is free but advance booking is
required. All welcome.
We now have access to a range of Duke University Press journals via the eDuke Scholarly Collection. The collection includes 49 journals, and whilst not purely legal in focus, covers subjects such as gender and sexuality studies, anthropology, history, cultural studies and theory, environmental studies, international regional studies, political theory and literature - and so will be of interest to a number of the School's students and staff.
