Martinmas Semester, 2020
Week 2:
Tuesday 22nd September, 1 – 2pm, Sir David Edward and Malik Dahlan (Institution Quraysh, QMUL and St Andrews): “The ‘Breathing Space’ Project – Rule of Law Past and Future” (please note that this event will be recorded)
Week 3:
Thurs. 1st Oct, 4 – 5pm, ILCR Reading Group: Don Herzog, Sovereignty, RIP (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2020) [Contact [email protected] for further details]
Week 5:
Thurs. 15th Oct, 4 – 5pm, ILCR Reading Group: Don Herzog, Sovereignty, RIP
Week 7:
Tues. 27th Oct., 4pm, ERC project (‘CLCLCL’) event: “Mapping Medieval Legal Manuscripts”
Week 8:
Weds. 4th November, 6.30 – 7.30pm, ILCR Podcast ‘Talking Constitutions’ (https://ilcr.podbean.com/ ), special live podcast panel: “Constitutional Futures” (please note that this event will be recorded)
Thurs. 5th Nov, 4 – 5pm, ILCR Reading Group: Don Herzog, Sovereignty, RIP
Week 9:
Thursday 12th November, 5.15pm – 6.45pm, Adelyn Wilson and Stephanie Dropuljic (Aberdeen): “Local Governance and burgh council elections in Aberdeen, 1580-1660”, hosted jointly by ILCR and ISHR (please note that this event will be recorded)
Week 10:
Monday 16th November, 4pm, University of St Andrews Law Journal “Inaugural Edition Release” (student-led event)
Week 12:
Thursday 3rd December, 4pm, ILCR Reading Group ‘meet the author Q&A’ with Professor Don Herzog (University of Michigan Law School), followed by online end of semester party
Candlemas Semester, 2021
Week 2:
Thurs 4 Feb, 5.15 – 6.45pm: ‘Law’s Two Bodies’ Interview with Marjon Esfandiary
(Head of Legal & Policy at Publishers’ Licensing Services Ltd, specialising in commercial
law / intellectual property rights)
Week 3:
Thurs 11 Feb, 4 – 5pm: ILCR Reading Group 1, Brian Simpson, Reflections on The Concept
of Law (see the ‘Semester 2 2020-21 Reading Group’ programme for details)
Week 4:
Thurs 18 Feb, 1 – 2.15pm: ILCR seminar: ‘Justiciability’.
Participants include Lorna Drummond QC and Aidan O’Neill QC
Week 5:
Thurs 25 Feb, 4 – 5pm: ILCR Reading Group 2
Week 6:
Thurs 4th March, 5.15 – 6.30pm: Inaugural ‘James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government’.
William Ewald, Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law
School: “The Forgetting of James Wilson”
Chaired by Anthony Lang, Professor in International Political Theory, School of International
Relations, University of St Andrews [TEAMS LIVE event]
Week 7:
Thurs 11th March, 3 – 5pm: Masterclass with Professor William Ewald
Week 8:
Thurs 18 March, 4-5pm: ILCR Reading Group 3
Week 9:
Thurs 8 April, 1.15-2.15pm: Joint ILCR and IIH Seminar, Nehal Bhuta, Chair of Public
International Law, University of Edinburgh: “The State Theory of Grotius”
Week 12:
Thurs 29 April, 4-5pm: ILCR Reading Group 4, followed by end of semester online party