Faculty members host conference celebrating 50 years of the Law Commissions

The Chairmen of the Law Commissions in July 2015
cutting the celebratory cakes: The Scottish
Commission Chairman, Lord Pentland [L], and the
Chairman of the Law Commission of England and
Wales, Sir David Lloyd Jones [R].
 

On 10-11 July, the Faculty of Law in collaboration with the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London held a conference to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Law Commissions Act 1965. Matthew Dyson and Shona Wilson Stark from the Faculty, and James Lee from King's College, London hosted the event in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, in partnership with the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission.

The aim of the Conference was to reflect upon fifty years of institutional law reform in the United Kingdom, embracing the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission, as well as the Northern Ireland Law Commission.

The significance of various specific reforms and proposals from the Commissions was examined by academics, practitioners, judges and members of the Commissions. The Conference featured keynote addresses by Baroness Hale of Richmond, Deputy President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, and Sir Kenneth Keith, Former Justice of the International Court of Justice. More than seven jurisdictions were represented at the conference.

An edited volume from the conference, with papers, introductions from the chairs, the keynotes and an introduction by the organisers will be published in 2016 with Hart Publishing.

A programme from the event is available to download.

The conference was kindly sponsored by the SLS, the MLR, KCL, Hart Publishing, the Clark Foundation for Legal Education and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

A gallery of photographs from the event is available on Flickr: