Year |
Lecturer |
Title |
1949 |
Sir Alfred Denning |
Freedom Under the Law |
1950 |
Richard O'Sullivan |
The Inheritance of the Common Law |
1951 |
F. H. Lawson |
The Rational Strength of English Law |
1952 |
A. L. Goodhart |
English Law and the Moral Law |
1953 |
Sir Carleton Kemp Allen |
The Queen's Peace |
1954 |
C. J. Hamson |
Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat |
1955 |
Glanville Williams |
The Proof of Guilt: A Study of the English Criminal Trial |
1956 |
Sir Patrick Devlin |
Trial by Jury |
1957 |
Lord MacDermott |
Protection from Power under English Law |
1958 |
Sir David Hughes Parry |
The Sanctity of Contracts in English Law |
1959 |
C. H. S. Fifoot |
Judge and Jurist in the Reign of Victoria |
1960 |
M. C. Setalvad |
The Common Law in India |
1961 |
T. B. Smith |
British Justice: The Scottish Contribution |
1962 |
R. E. Megarry |
Lawyer and Litigant in England |
1963 |
Baroness Wootton of Abinger |
Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist |
1964 |
Erwin N. Griswold |
Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress |
1965 |
Lord Tangley |
New Law for a New World? |
1966 |
Lord Kilbrandon |
Other People's Law |
1967 |
O. D. Schreiner |
The Contribution of English Law to South African Law; and the Rule of Law in South Africa |
1968 |
Harry Street |
Justice in the Welfare State |
1969 |
Bora Laskin |
The British Tradition in Canadian Law |
1970 |
Henry Cecil |
The English Judge |
1971 |
Rupert Cross |
Punishment, Prison and the Public: An Assessment of Penal Reform in Twentieth Century England by an Armchair Penologist |
1972 |
Otto Kahn-Freund |
Labour and the Law |
1973 |
K. C. Wheare |
Maladministration and its Remedies |
1974 |
Sir Leslie Scarman |
English Law—The New Dimension |
1975 |
Sir Desmond Heap |
The Land and the Development; or, the Turmoil and the Torment |
1976 |
Sir Robert Micklethwait |
The National Insurance Commissioners |
1977 |
Lord Mackenzie Stuart |
The European Communities and the Rule of Law |
1978 |
Sir Norman Anderson |
Liberty, Law and Justice |
1979 |
O. R. McGregor |
Social History and Law Reform |
1980 |
H. W. R. Wade |
Constitutional Fundamentals |
1981 |
Hubert Monroe |
Intolerable Inquisition? Reflections on the Law of Tax |
1982 |
Tony Honoré |
The Quest for Security: Employees, Tenants, Wives |
1983 |
Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone |
Hamlyn Revisited: The British Legal System Today |
1984 |
Sir Gordon Borrie |
The Development of Consumer Law and Policy—Bold Spirits and Timorous Souls |
1985 |
Ralf Dahrendorf |
Law and Order |
1986 |
Sir Jack I. H. Jacob |
The Fabric of English Civil Justice |
1987 |
P. S. Atiyah |
Pragmatism and Theory in English Law |
1988 |
J. C. Smith |
Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law |
1989 |
Sir Harry Woolf |
Protection of the Public—A New Challenge |
1990 |
Claire Palley |
The United Kingdom and Human Rights |
1991 |
Sir Gordon Slynn |
Introducing a European Legal Order |
1992 |
Richard Abel |
Speech and Respect |
1993 |
Lord Mackay of Clashfern |
The Administration of Justice |
1994 |
William Twining |
Blackstone's Tower: The English Law School |
1995 |
Dame Brenda Hale |
From the Tube to the Coffin: Choice and Regulation in Private Life |
1996 |
Lord Cooke of Thorndon |
Turning Points of the Common Law |
1997 |
Roy Goode |
Commercial Law in the Next Millennium |
1998 |
Sir Stephen Sedley |
Freedom, Law and Justice |
1999 |
Michael Zander |
The State of Justice |
2000 |
Anthony King |
Does the United Kingdom Still Have a Constitution? |
2001 |
Andrew Ashworth |
Human Rights, Serious Crime and Criminal Procedure |
2002 |
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws |
Legal Conundrums in our Brave New World |
2003 |
Michael Kirby |
Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial Method |
2004 |
Sir Bob Hepple |
Rights at Work: Global, European and British Perspectives |
2005 |
Conor Gearty |
Can Human Rights Survive? |
2006 |
Sir Francis Jacobs |
The Sovereignty of Law: The European Way |
2007 |
Nicola Lacey |
The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies |
2008 |
Dame Hazel Genn |
Judging Civil Justice |
2009 |
Lord Bingham of Cornhill |
Widening Horizons: The Influence of Comparative Law and International Law on Domestic Law |
2010 |
Alan Paterson |
Lawyers and the Public Good: Democracy in Action? |
2011 |
Jeremy Waldron |
The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property |
2012 |
Jack Straw |
Aspects of Law Reform: An Insider's Perspective |
2013 |
Sir John Laws |
The Common Law Constitution |
2014 |
Paul Craig |
UK, EU and Global Administrative Law: Foundations and Challenges |
2015 |
Michael Freeman |
A Magna Carta for Children? Rethinking Children's Rights |
2016 |
Dame Sian Elias |
Golden Threads and Pragmatic Patches: Fairness in Criminal Justice |
2017 |
Andrew Burrows |
Thinking about Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement |
2018 |
Robin Allen QC |
Why does Equality seem so difficult? Three problems in comparison. |
2019 |
Professor Sir John Baker |
English Law under two Elizabeths |
2020 |
Eleanor Sharpston QC (delivered online) |
The Great Experiment: Constructing a European Union under the Rule of Law from a Group of Diverse Sovereign States[3] |
2021 |
Lord Pannick QC |
Advocacy |
2022 |
Professor Catherine O’Regan |
Courts and the Body Politic |
2023 |
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd |
Laws for a nation and laws for transnational commerce. Where is the line drawn? |
2024 |
Professor Richard Moorhead |
Frail professionalism |