Wednesday 7 March 2012 6:00pm
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An event to celebrate the life of Bill Wedderburn (Professor Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, FBA) will take place on July 3 in the Shaw Library of the London School of Economics, starting at 6.00 pm.
The chair will be taken by Lord Grabiner of Aldwych, QC.
Extract from the obituary in The Guardian, 12 March 2012:
"Bill Wedderburn, who has died aged 84, was the golden boy of English labour law, with a scholarship to Queens’ College, Cambridge, a first in classics, a double-starred first in law and an LLB result that won him the Chancellor's medal. After two years in the RAF (1949-51), he became a fellow of Clare College, where he persuaded Cambridge to put labour law into the rubric by disguising it as "industrial law". He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1953.
By the time the founder of the subject, Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, went to Oxford as professor of comparative law, Bill had become his natural heir, and in 1964 he was offered Otto's chair at the LSE. There, he established an outstanding school, with a string of distinguished alumni."