The Current Legal Problems (CLP) lecture series and annual volume was established
over fifty-five years ago at the Faculty of Laws, University College London
and is recognised as a major reference point for legal scholarship.
The continuing
strength of Current Legal Problems is its representation of a broad range
of legal scholarship opinion, theory, methodology, and subject
matter, but with an emphasis upon contemporary developments of law. A particularly
important feature of the lecture series that forms the basis of the annual
volume is the participation of members of the judiciary who chair the lectures
in a convivial and academic environment.
The lectures are held at the Faculty
of Law, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1 from 6-7pm and are accredited
by the Bar Council and Law Society
for 1 CPD hour. They are public lectures and are free of charge.
Thursday 8 October 2009
The Human Rights of Children Professor Michael Freeman, UCL
Chaired by The Rt Hon Lord Justice Thorpe
This lecture is sponsored by
Thursday 15 October 2009 Is it NICE? The Appeal and Limits of the Medical Model in Criminal Justice Professor Ian Loader, University of Oxford
Chaired by The Rt Hon Lord Justice Moses
This lecture is sponsored by
Thursday 22 October 2009 The interplay between international legal regimes: some current critical issues Prof Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva
Chaired by The Rt Hon the Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury MR
This lecture is sponsored by
Thursday 29 October 2009 When it Comes to Contact Disputes, What are Family Courts For? Felicity Kaganas, Brunel University
Thursday 5 November 2009 1948: History and International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Dr Catriona Drew, SOAS
Thursday 19 November 2009 Language, the WTO and International Agricultural Trade Dr Fiona Smith, UCL Laws
Chaired by The Rt Hon The Lord Steyn
Thursday 26 November 2009 Recalibrating ECHR Rights and the Role of the Human Rights Act Post 9/11 Prof. Helen Fenwick, University of Durham
Chaired by The Rt Hon Lord Justice Sedley
Thursday 3 December 2009 International Law and the Protection of Natural Resources in Situations of Armed Conflict Phoebe Okowa, Queen Mary University of London
Thursday 10 December 2009
INAUGURAL LECTURE:
An untheory of the law of Trusts
Professor James Penner, UCL Laws
Chaired by Professor Malcolm Grant CBE (UCL Provost)
Thursday 14 January 2010
An Unholy Trinity?: Non-Consent, Coercion and Exploitation in Contemporary Legal Responses to Sexual Violence
Professor Vanessa Munro, University of Nottingham
Thursday 21 January 2010
Transparency and Administrative Law: A Critical Evaluation
Dr Liz Fisher, University of Oxford
Thursday 28 January 2010 How to Protect Retail Investors: Law, Policy and the Financial Crisis
Professor Niamh Moloney, LSE
Thursday 4 February 2010
Spies Like Us? Freedom of Speech and Restitutionary Remedies.
Prof. Eoin O'Dell, Trinity College Dublin
Thursday 11 February 2010
Law, Regulation and Public Health Research: A case for fundamental reform?
Prof. Jean McHale, University of Birmingham
Thursday 25 February 2010
No-oral-modification clauses and the DCFR - Are oral contracts 'not worth the paper they are written on', or do they bring 'back through the window' what was 'put out by the door'?
Dr Florian Wagner-von Papp, UCL
Thursday 4 March 2010
Corporate Law in the UK after Recent Reforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dr Arad Reisberg, UCL
Thursday 11 March 2010
The European Convention of Human Rights as a source of French Constitutional Law
Professor Guy Soffani, University of Aix-en-Provence and UCLA
Thursday 18 March 2010
INAUGURAL:
Distrust: Our Fear of Trusts in the Commercial World
Professor Rob Chambers, UCL
