Events

Please note 6.30pm lecture start time.

Legal Education for the Twenty-First Century

A quarter into the twenty-first century, legal education faces a series of questions and challenges. They arise from − inter alia − political developments, technological advances, and an increasing perception of uncertainty about the future. The lecture will address three of the most significant challenges and reflect on how best to meet them.

Firstly, it will consider the extent to which universities should try to instill key democratic values in students, so as to prepare them for bearing professional responsibility towards the legal systems and the societies they serve, and to increase resilience. Secondly, it will ask how legal education ought to respond to the ubiquity and fast-paced evolution of AI. Thirdly, it will show that domestic law is best taught and understood in a wider context.

Comparative awareness, coupled with an ingrained ethos and a sense of purpose and direction, enables aspiring jurists to take charge of future law design and ultimately to steer their legal system’s destiny.

Please join us from 5.30pm for networking with drinks and light refreshments prior to the lecture commencement at 6.00pm.

Revolutionaries in Power: Lessons Learned from the US Antimonopoly Movement

Effectuating change often takes decades, if it happens at all. Political movements rarely succeed overnight. But the recent antimonopoly movement in the United States was an exception.

In just a few short years, it grew from a handful of civil-society researchers and academics to a group with powerful allies in Washington DC, holding the reins of three major federal agencies. It was, in some ways, a model for conceptualising and institutionalising prosocial policy. Yet it was not perfect, nor was its rapid ascent without drawbacks.

In this lecture, Professor John Newman will describe from first-hand experience the highlights, pitfalls, and lessons learned by serving as a revolutionary in power.