The purpose of the programme, which is open to members of the Inn and the general public, is to enhance an understanding of the law and its social importance, through the open discussion of difficult questions that the law is asked to address, and concerning which there may be equally plausible but conflicting views.
18 May 2026
Historic Trials of Soldiers
17 March 2026
The Duty to Rescue
18 November 2025
Is the Rise in Mass Litigation distorting our Legal System and the UK Economy?
19 May 2025
Perverse Not Guilty Verdicts Should Remain Final
18 March 2025
Handing Back the Past: Cultural Repatriation
15 October 2024
Environmental Law: Regulation and the Right to Protest
10 June 2024
Do Magnitsky Type Sanctions Develop the Rule of Law?
19 February 2024
AI: Risks and Benefits
20 November 2023
Ukraine War: Peace-making Ahead – Traditional Methods of Accountability or New Solutions?
12 June 2023
Is Our Adversarial System Fit for Purpose?
16 May 2023
Should our Constitution Protect Against Party Elected Leaders?
22 February 2023
Global Responses to the Forcibly Displaced. Freedom of Movement or Control by Numbers? Whose Rights? Whose Duties?
23 November 2020
The Inner Temple and the Rule of Law: The Life of Helmuth von Moltke
25 June 2020
Does the Bar Need to Communicate and Market Itself More in the Modern World?
4 February 2020
Is the Presumption of Innocence Alive and Well?
4 November 2019
Britain’s Unwritten Constitution
13 May 2019
Is Anything More Needed to Ensure Freedom of Speech?
1 April 2019
Peace vs Justice
23 October 2018
Assisted Dying
