Lord Reed to give law lecture at University of Dundee

Published On Mon 26 Oct 2015 by Roddy Isles

Lord Reed, one of the two Scottish Justices of Britain’s Supreme Court and one of the country’s leading authorities on human rights law, will deliver a public lecture at the University of Dundee on Friday October 30^th.

In his lecture `Triremes and Steamships: Legal Scholarship and Judicial Practice’ Lord Reed will discuss the differences between the approach to the law adopted in scholarship and the approach adopted in appellate judging.

Lord Reed is one of the two Scottish Justices of The Supreme Court. After studying law at the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1983, where he undertook a wide range of civil work.

He served as a senior judge in Scotland for 13 years, being appointed to the Outer House of the Court of Session in 1998 and promoted to the Inner House in January 2008. During 1999 he sat as an ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights.

His career has included work as varied as sitting on the appeals of Jamie Bulger killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables in 1999, in his role as one of the United Kingdom’s ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights, and acting as an expert adviser to the European Union Initiative with Turkey on Democratisation and Human Rights between 2002 and 2004.

He will be delivering his lecture in the Dalhousie Building at the University of Dundee at 4pm on Friday October 30^th. The event is free and all are welcome to attend.

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