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Tercentenary 2007 Events

Tercentenary Lectures

The 2007 Tercentenary lecture series represents a cumulative portrait of the intellectual life of the School.

Edinburgh scholars and their distinguished guests delivered lectures across a broad range of the discipline of Law as it is understood, refined, and furthered at Edinburgh.

The Tercentenary Lectures
Date: 18th January 2007
Title: On "Public Law and the Law of Nature and
Nations"
Speaker: Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, University of Edinburgh
 

Sponsored by Turcan Connell

Podcast of Lecture
 
Date: 9th February 2007
Title: The Origins of Edinburgh Law School
Speaker: Professor John Cairns, University of Edinburgh
 

Sponsored by Turcan Connell

Podcast of Lecture
 
Date: 1st March 2007: The Tercentenary Mitchell Lecture
Title: An ever closer (and ever larger?) union among the peoples of Europe?
Speaker: Ms. Eleanor Sharpston Q.C., Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.
 

Podcast of Lecture
 
Date: 22nd March 2007: The Tercentenary Brodies' Environmental Law Lecture
Title: Regulation and the Environment: Taking Sanctions Seriously
Speaker: Professor Richard Macrory, University College London
 

Sponsored by Brodies LLP

Podcast of Lecture

 
Date: 19th April 2007: The Tercentenary Centre for Law and Society Lecture
Title: America and Its Death Penalty
Speaker: Professor David Garland, New York University
 

Podcast of Lecture
 
Date: 27th September 2007
Title: The Tercentenary Chiene Lecture: Conserving Culture and Copyright: a Partial History
Speaker: Professor Emeritus W.R. Cornish (University of Cambridge)
 

Sponsored by Lindsays

Podcast of Lecture
 
Date: 25th October 2007
Title: The Tercentenary Public International Law Lecture: The Advantage of Treaties: International Law in the Enlightenment
Speaker: Professor Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)
   
 
Date: 23rd November 2007
Title:

The Tercentenary W.A. Wilson Lecture:" 'The Strange Habits of the English' "

Speaker: Lord Hope of Craighead
 

Podcast of Lecture
 
Date: 11th December 2007
Title: The Tercentenary Lecture in Public Law: 'Ayatollahs of the West: Judges as Moral Censors of Democratic Choice'
Speaker:

Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Podcast of lecture

 

Justice Scalia with Lord Woolman and Lord Hamilton

 

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