UCL Bentham Association Presidential Address & Dinner 2019

Professor Piet Eeckhout, Dean of the UCL Faculty of Laws, is delighted to announce that the 2019 Bentham Association Presidential Address will be delivered by

Lord Reed Deputy President of The Supreme Court
on The Supreme Court Ten Years On

About the 2019 Bentham Association President

Robert John Reed, Lord Reed became Deputy President of The Supreme Court on 7 June 2018. He was appointed as a Justice of The Supreme Court in February 2012.

He studied law at Edinburgh University and undertook doctoral research in law at the University of Oxford. He qualified as an advocate in Scotland and as a barrister in England. He practised at the Scottish Bar in a wide range of civil cases, and also prosecuted serious crime.

He served as a senior judge in Scotland for 13 years. From 2008 to 2012 a member of the Inner House of the Court of Session, and from 1998 to 2008 a member of the Outer House of the Court of Session, where he was the Principal Commercial Judge.

As well as sitting on the Supreme Court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, he is also a member of the panel of ad hoc judges of the European Court of Human Rights, and is a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. He is also the Visitor of Balliol College, Oxford.

Lord Reed is one of the two Scottish Justices of The Supreme Court.

Schedule for the evening:

18:15  Reception at UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House
19:00  Lecture by Lord Reed
20:15  Dinner in the Jeremy Bentham Room, Wilkins Building

Ticket Fees

£60 Alumni and Guest Tickets
£45 Graduates from 2016, 2017, 2018
 

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