Hamlyn Lectures 2020 kick off at Faculty

The 2020 Hamlyn Lectures open next week with an event hosted by the Faculty of Advocates.

This year's lectures will be delivered by Eleanor Sharpston QC, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union from 2006 until she was controversially removed from office earlier this year.

Her three online lectures will consider "The Great Experiment: Constructing a European Union under the Rule of Law from a Group of Diverse Sovereign States."

Lecture one is on Thursday 29 October, from 6pm and will be chaired by Sir David Edward QC. It is titled: "Competing claims to pre-eminence and the lessons of history".

Subsequent lectures are on 2 November and 23 November, hosted in Belfast and London.

The annual Hamlyn Lectures date from 1949 and are presented by the Hamlyn Trust, which was established by Emma Hamlyn in memory of her father, William Hamlyn, a solicitor and justice of the peace in Torquay. The object of the trust is to further knowledge and understanding of the law.

Lectures are free. Click here for further details and to book attendance.