The following speakers presented papers at the 2009 seminar:

Professor Andrew Ashworth (Oxford): Children and criminal responsibility

Professor Eric Clive (Edinburgh): Codification of the criminal law

Dr Sharon Cowan (Edinburgh): The pain of pleasure: consent and the criminalisation of assaults

Professor Ian Dennis (UCL): Witness anonymity in the criminal process

Professors Antony Duff and Sandra Marshall (Stirling): Public and private wrongs

Professor Peter Duff (Aberdeen): Undisclosed and additional evidence: should the threshold be the same?

Professor Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow): The idea of principle in Scots criminal law

Professor Stuart Green (Rutgers): Theft by omission

Professor Finbarr McAuley (UCD): Statutory rape and defilement in Ireland: recent developments

Dr Claire McDiarmid (Strathclyde): The provocation defence

Professor Gerry Maher (Edinburgh): The structure of homicide

Professor Alan Norrie (King's College London): Mistaken self-defence and the formal structure of criminal law

Dr Robert Shiels: Crown Counsel: Sir Archibald Alison to Lord Brand

Professor Victor Tadros (Warwick): A human right to a fair criminal law?

Sheriff Tom Welsh QC: The summary jurisdiction to punish for contempt of court in criminal trials

The following two authors, while unable to speak at the conference, wrote papers for the Festschrift volume:

Peter Ferguson QC: The mental element in crime

Professor John Spencer (Cambridge): Codification of criminal procedure

Lord Rodger of Earlsferry and Professor Christopher Gane (Aberdeen) wrote a foreword and appreciation respectively, while Professor William McBryde took a portrait photograph of Sir Gerald for inclusion in the volume.

The seminar took place in the Raeburn Room of Old College, University of Edinburgh. It started at 11am on Thursday 11th June 2009 (registration opening at 10.30) and closed shortly prior to Lord Hope's public lecture (in the Playfair Library) at 6.15pm on Friday 12th June. Click here to download a copy of the full programme.

The costs of the conference and public lecture were generously covered by support from the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, W. Green and the Scottish Universities Law Institute. The events were organised jointly by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow.