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Prominent Speaker Lecture Series

The ALPSA Prominent Speaker Lecture Series was inaugurated in May, 2005. ALPSA was delighted to host Professor Sir Neil MacCormick - Freehills Visiting Fellow, UNSW Law School - a prominent world-renowed legal theorist. Professor MacCormick spoke on the topic Does Law Really Matter? on Friday the 13th of May 2005, in the Lady Thiess Room, Customs House, Brisbane.

(Left to Right) Prof. Sir Neil MacCormick with ALPSA members; Dinner at Restaurant II; Mrs. MacCormick, Prof. Sir Neil MacCormick, Max Leskiewicz and Katherine Del Mar.

ALPSA is grateful to the generous support of the T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland; Griffith University Law School; Customs House Brisbane; and the Hilton.

 

Professor Sir Neil MacCormick (b. 27 May 1941, Glasgow)

Member of the European Parliament (Scotland, Scottish National Party/European Free Alliance). Former Member of European Parliament Committees on Legal Affairs and the Single Market (co-ordinator for the Greens/European Free Alliance Group); Constitutional Affairs Committee; Vice-President of the Temporary Committee (2000-01) on the Echelon Interception System. Alternate member on the Convention on the Future of Europe. A Vice-President of the Scottish National Party since 1999.

A distinguished academic lawyer and graduate of Glasgow, Oxford and Edinburgh Universities, he has been Regius Professor of Public Law at Edinburgh University since 1972 (leave of absence, 1999-2004). Prof. MacCormick holds an honorary Doctorate of Laws from universities in several countries (Uppsala, Sweden; the Saarland, Germany; Macerata, Italy; Queen's, Kingston, Ontario; Glasgow, Scotland). He is a former member of the Finnish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and an honorary QC. Author of many books and articles on legal and political theory. On 6th June 2001, Professor MacCormick was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List "for services to scholarship in law".

Professor MacCormick's forthcoming book, Rhetoric and the Rule of Law, will be published by Oxford University Press later this year.

 

(Above) Following the Annual Lecture, ALPSA members enjoyed dinner with Professor Sir Neil MacCormick and Mrs. MacCormick at Restaurant II.