Monday 22 March 2021
Professor Sir John Baker QC (Emeritus Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England 1998-2011 and Inner Temple Bencher) and Professor John Wass (Professor of Endocrinology, University of Oxford and Inner Temple Bencher) in conversation with His Honour Donald Cryan (former Treasurer of The Inner Temple).
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- Dr Ivy Williams, An Enduring Inspiration to Women Lawyers
- Gilds and Things
- The History of The Inner Temple through its Treasures
- Human Rights in Britain and France: From Thomas Becket to the French Revolution
- Law in a Time of Plague - Was the Law a Good Doctor
- Lawyers and Diplomats
- Religious Disputes and the Custody of Children: Dr Barnardo in the House of Lords
- The Selden Society: John Selden and Legal History
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- Master H Meets...Again
- Have We "Had Enough of Experts"?
- Race and the Legal Profession
- The Absolute Ban on Assisted Dying and Lessons from Canada
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- Brain Imaging as Evidence
- Calling It Out: Professionals, their Regulators, Equity and Fairness
- The Bar of Ireland, Brexit and the Common Law
- The English Approach to Deciding Commercial Cases
- The Executive and the Courts in the Constitution
- Experts: Love or Loath? The Involvement of Experts in Legal Proceedings
- Forensic Document Examination - The Science Today
- Forensic Identification from the Hand
- The Future for Regulation of the UK Public Markets
- Giving Judges a Voice in Democracies
- The History of the Law Officers
- How the Law Should Respond to External Crises Such as COVID-19
- Lawyer or Politician: What is the Attorney General?
- The Limits of Fiduciary Rules
- Memory as Evidence
- Politics and the Law
- The Predicament and Agency of Refugees
- Previous Lecture Series and Speakers
- Proof in International Criminal Trials
- Reforming the Law of Contempt of Court
- A Public Health Approach to Equality Law
- The Role of the Medical Examiner
- 'Sales' on Retention of Title Terms
- Show me the money!
- Sport - Law and Ethics
- The Wild and Ridiculous Doctrine of Equality
- What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Racist in a Profession Full of Privileged People?
- The Work of UNIDROIT and the Future for the International Harmonisation of Commercial Law
- Perverse Not Guilty Verdicts Should Remain Final
- AI: Risks and Benefits
- Assisted Dying
- Asylum and Immigration: Do Sovereign Island Nations have a Duty to Provide Refuge?
- Britain's Unwritten Constitution
- The Crime of Ecocide
- Do Magnitsky Type Sanctions Develop the Rule of Law?
- Does the Bar Need to Communicate and Market Itself More in the Modern World?
- Environmental Law: Regulation and the Right to Protest
- Global Responses to the Forcibly Displaced
- Handing Back the Past: Cultural Repatriation
- Is Anything More Needed to Ensure Freedom of Speech?
- Is the Presumption of Innocence Alive and Well?
- Is There a Case for Anonymity in Social Media?
- Is Our Adversarial System Fit for Purpose?
- Is it Better to Review or Monitor Terror Laws? The UK and Australian Positions Compared
- Peace vs Justice
- Prison Reform
- The Rule of Law in Times of International Conflict
- Should UK Judges and ex-Judges Be Sitting in Hong Kong?
- Should our Constitution Protect Against Party Elected Leaders?
- Ukraine War: Peace-making Ahead – Traditional Methods of Accountability or New Solutions?
- Special Gandhi Lecture
- What Does a Master of the Bench Do?
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Law in a Time of Plague - Was the Law a Good Doctor
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Reading List
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
Frank M Snowden, Yale University Press 2020
On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus
David Waltner-Toews, Greystone Books 2020
Viruses Plagues and History: Past, Present and Future
Michael Oldstone, Oxford University Press 2020
Plague - A Very Short Introduction
Paul Slack, OUP 2012
The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
Paul Slack, OUP 1985
Professor John Wass's Slides
4 May: 'Gilds and Things: Keeping the Peace in 10th Century London' by Rory Naismith
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