The Chorley Lecture
The Chorley Lecture is an annual lecture inaugurated in 1972 and named in honour of Lord Chorley of Kendal, the founding editor of The Modern Law Review. The Lecture, which is normally delivered in late May or early June at the London School of Economics & Political Science, is the most important occasion in the calendar of The Modern Law Review. A version of the lecture is subsequently published as the lead article in the January issue of the following year’s Review.
2015 Chorley Lecture
Law as information in the era of data-driven agency
Professor Mireille Hildebrandt
Chair of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law institute of Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) Radboud University Nijmegen
Professor of Technology Law and Law in Technology Research Group for Law Science Technology and Society (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam
European Commission
Date: Thursday 18th June 2015
Time: 6pm
Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building, London School of Economics
No tickets required
The Chorley Lectures:
| 2015 | Professor Mireille Hildebrandt: Law as Information in the Era of Data-driven Agency
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| 2014 | The Constitutional Imagination
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| 2013 | Professor Deidre Curtin: Challenging Executive Dominance in European Democracy
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| 2012 | Professor Michael Heller: The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Gridlock in the Innovation Economy |
| 2011 | Kate O'Regan: Text Matters: Some Reflections on the Forging of a New Constitutional Jurisprudence in South Africa |
| 2010 | Professor Andrew Ashworth: Ignorance of the Criminal Law, and Duties to Avoid it |
| 2009 | Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Nacim: The Compatibility Dialectic:Mediating the Legitimate Coexistence of Islamic Law and State Law |
| 2008 | Professor Gunther Teubner: Self-subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendence Formula of Law? |
| 2007 | Professor Lani Guinier: Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking the Political Representative as Powerful Stranger |
| 2006 | Professor Martti Koskenniemi: The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics |
| 2005 | Madame Noelle Lenoir: Biotechnology, Bioethics and Law: Europe's 21st Century Challenge. |
| 2004 | Professor Simon Roberts: After Government? On Representing Law Without State. |
| 2003 | Professor Bob Hepple: Race and Law in Fortress Europe (67 MLR 1) |
| 2002 | Professor Frank Michelman: Constitutional Legitimation for Political Acts (66 MLR 1) |
| 2001 | Professor Carol Harlow: Public Law and Popular Justice (65 MLR 1) |
| 2000 | Professor Jutta Limbach: The Concept of the Supremacy of the Constitution (64 MLR 1) |
| 1999 | Dr Kader Asmal: Truth, Reconciliation and Justice: The South African Experience in Perspective (63 MLR 1) |
| 1998 | Professor Anthony Giddens: Risk and Responsibility (62 MLR 1) |
| 1997 | Professor Antonio Cassese: Reflections on International Criminal Justice (61 MLR 1) |
| 1996 | Professor C.A.E.Goodhart: Economics and the Law: Too Much One-Way Traffic? (60 MLR 1) |
| 1995 | Professor Roberto Unger: Legal Analysis as Institutional Imagination (59 MLR 1) |
| 1994 | Professor W.R.Cornish: Authors in Law (58 MLR 1) |
| 1993 | Lord Runciman: An Outsider’s View of the Criminal Justice System (57 MLR 1) |
| 1992 | Professor Neil MacCormack: Beyond the Sovereign State (56 MLR 1) |
| 1991 | Professor Marc Galanter: Law Abounding: Legislation around the North Atlantic (55 MLR 1) |
| 1990 | Professor Lord Wedderburn of Charlton: The Social Charter in Britain – Labour Law and Labour Courts? (54 MLR 1) |
| 1989 | Nicole Questiaux: Bicentenary of a Declaration: A Time for Challenge? (53 MLR 139) |
| 1988 | Professor Rosalyn Higgins: Human Rights: Some Questions of Integrity (52 MLR 1) |
| 1987 | Professor L.C.B.Gower: Big Bang and City Regulation (51 MLR 1) |
| 1986 | Professor Hein Kotz: Taking Civil Codes Less Seriously (50 MLR 1) |
| 1985 | Professor R Abel: The Decline of Professionalism (49 MLR 1) |
| 1984 | Professor PS Atiyah: Common Law and Statute Law (48 MLR 1) |
| 1983 | Professor D Hay: The Criminal Prosecution of England and its Historians (47 MLR 1) |
| 1982 | Professor JPWB McAuslan: Administrative Law, Judicial Policy and Collective Consumption (46 MLR 1) |
| 1981 | Professor A Tunc: A French Lawyer looks at British Company Law (45 MLR 1) |
| 1980 | Mr SM Cretney: The Codification of Family Law (44 MLR 1) |
| 1979 | Professor GF Mancini: Politics and the Judges: The European Perspective (43 MLR 1) |
| 1978 | Professor JAG Griffith: The Political Constitution (42 MLR 1) |
| 1977 | The Hon. Mr Justice Kerr: Modern Trends in Commercial Law and Practice (41 MLR 1) |
| 1976 | Professor RG Dahrendorf: A Confusion of Powers: Politics and the Rule Law (40 MLR 1) |
| 1975 | Lord Devlin: Judges and Lawmakers (39 MLR 1) |
| 1974 | Professor S Simitis: Workers’ Participation in the Enterprise – Transcending Company Law? (38 MLR 1) |
| 1973 | Professor Sir Otto Kahn-Freund: The Uses and Abuses of Comparative Law (37 MLR 1) |
| 1972 | Professor HLA Hart: Bentham and the Demystification of the Law (36 MLR 2) |