Conference Snippets
- Online booking now available.
- En suite rooms at Tapton will be reserved for those attending the full conference.
- The Rt. Hon Beverley McLachlin the Chief Justice of Canada, will be at the Conference throughout. Chief Justice McLachlin will also give an SLS Lecture.
- Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, the world's leading expert on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, will give an SLS Lecture.
- The Rt. Hon. Baroness Hale of Richmond, the first woman Law Lord, will give an SLS Lecture.
During the Conference there will be three SLS lectures to be delivered by distinguished speakers – the two foremost female judges in the common law world, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Canadian Supreme Court (both former academics and honorary members of the Society), and the distinguished historian from the University of Sheffield, Professor Sir Ian Kershaw.
Profile: Rt. Hon. Baroness Hale of Richmond
'The House of Lords and Women's Rights'
Wednesday 15th September. 14:00.
Baroness Hale is the first woman law lord. She is also the youngest member of the Appellate Committee. Baroness Hale was previously an academic at the University of Manchester.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,9061,1119116,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3246731.stm
Rt. Hon. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
'Demystifying Judging: How Judges Think'
Tuesday 14th September. 16:00.
Chief Justice McLachlin, read philosophy and law at the University of
Alberta, and was called to the bar in Alberta in 1969. After graduation
McLachlin worked in practice until 1974 when she was appointed as an Assistant
Professor and subsequently a full Professor at the University of British
Columbia.
In 1981 McLachlin was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. She
subsequently sat in the Court of Appeal of British Columbia before being
appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1988.
In 1989 McLachlin was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, the third woman
to be so appointed. In 2000 she was sworn in as Chief Justice of Canada. Chief
Justice McLachlin is the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of Canada.
http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/AboutCourt/judges/mclachlin/index_e.asp
Professor Sir Ian Kershaw FBA
'The collapse of legality in Nazi Germany'
Tuesday 14th September. 11:30.
Professor Sir Ian Kershaw is widely regarded as the world's leading expert on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/ian-kershaw.html
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