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.
2013 Chorley Lecture
The Challenge of Executive Democracy in Europe
Professor Deirdre Curtin,
Professor of European Law of the University of Amsterdam
The recent response of supranational and national executives to challenges such as global security threats and the Eurocrisis prompts a fresh look at fundamental issues of (representative) democracy in Europe. First, the compound nature of the European Union continues to link supranational democracy closely with the functioning of national democracies. Second, the democratic challenge is accentuated by the acceleration of power exercised by the supranational executive including the (new) tasks of a growing array of institutions, agencies and other executive actors. Finally, secrecy and fragmentation of powers and responsibilities hinders public debate and democratic accountability. All of this may be indicative of an unbound executive beyond the reach of supranational and national democracy.
Date: Tuesday 4th June 2013
Time: 6pm - 7pm
Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science
The Chorley Lectures:
| 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) |