The Lionel Cohen Annual Lecture Series

The Lionel Cohen Annual Lecture Series

The Lionel Cohen Annual Lecture series is held at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem continually since 1953. The series is organized by The British Friends of the Hebrew University. It is regarded as one of the major annual events at the Law Faculty, and marks the unique relations between the British and the Israeli judiciaries and legal communities in general.
 
This series of lectures is named in honor of Lord Lionel Cohen. Lionel Cohen was born in 1888. In 1943,during the Second World War, he was appointed as a judge in the High Court. He then was appointed to the Court of Appeal and in 1951 he was appointed a Law Lord entering the House of Lords, where he served until his retirement in 1961. Cohen chaired many Royal Commissions in the years following the Second World War, particularly in the areas of company law and compensation. From 1946 to 1956 he chaired the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, which acknowledged scientists who had made technological advances.

Lionel Cohen was also very active in the British Jewish Community, and served as the President of the Jewish Welfare Board (now the Jewish Care). Lionel Cohen died in 1973. 

The Lionel Cohen lecture series was established in 1953, shortly after the establishment of the law faculty of the Hebrew University in 1949. Lionel Cohen's son, the Honourable Leonard Cohen, has maintained the interest in the Lectureship. He served as the President of the Jewish Colonisation Association. Jonathan Cohen, the grandson of Lionel Cohen, is now the Trustee of the Fund for the Lectureship.
 

Lionel Cohen Lecturers:

2024 Lady Rose of Colmworth DBE
Breathing Life into the Law: Achieving Access to Justice in the Modern State
 
2023

Prof. Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon)
Artificial Intelligence and the Law in the 2nd Quarter of the 21st Century

   

2022 The Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Institutional Independence and Accountability of the Judiciary
  
2021

Lord Andrew Burrows
Judges and Academics, and the Endless Road to Unattainable Perfection

   

2019:

Prof. Philippe Sands QC "East West Street: Then and Now"

   

2018:

The Right Honorable Sir Terence Etherton "The Universality of the Rule of Law as an International Standard"   Gallery

   

2017:

The Right Honourable the Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales "The judiciary within the state: governance and cohesion of the judiciary"

  

2016:

The Right Honourable Lord Dyson, former Master of the Rolls of England and Wales "Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism"  Gallery

  

2015: 

Sir Christopher John Greenwood  "Magna Carta and the Development of Modern International Law"  Invitation

  

2014: 

The Right Honorable Lady Justice Heather Hallet, "Being a Judge in the Modern World"   Invitation

  

2013: 

The Right Honourable Sir Stanley Burnton - "Immigration and International Law" 

  

2012: 

The Right Honorable the Lord Grabiner QC - "Sex, Scandal and Super-Injunctions: the Controversies Surrounding the Protection of Privacy"  Invitation     Gallery

  

2011:

The Right Honorable the Lord Igor JudgeLord Chief Justice and President of the Courts of England and Wales Gallery

  

2010:

The Right Honorable the Lord David Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls, Head of the Civil Justice in England and Wales   Gallery 

  

2009:

The Right Honorable the Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal, the Attorney General of the United Kingdom

  

2008:

Sir Mark Potter

  

2007:

Sir Lawrence Collins

  

2006:

Baroness Deech of Cumnor

  

2005:

Baroness Hale of Richmond

  

2004:

Sir Jack Beatson

  

2003:

Lord Woolf of Barnes

  

2002:

Lord Pannick of Radlett

  

2001:

Lord Hope of Craighead

  

2000:

Prof. Peter Birks

  

1999:

Lord Bingham of Cornhill

  

1998:

Lord Hoffman of Chedworth

  

1997:

Prof. Michael Zander

  

1996:

Lord Mustill of Pateley Bridge

  

1995:

Prof. Dawn Oliver

  

1994:

Lord Lester of Herne Hill

  

1993:

Prof. Basil Markesinis

  

1992:

Lord Lowry of Crossgar

  

1991:

Sir Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson

  

1990:

Prof. Roy Goode

  

1989:

Lord Oliver of Aylemerton

  

1987:

Lord Goff of Chieveley

  

1985:

Prof. Gareth Jones

  

1984:

Lord Elwyn-Jones of Llanelli and Newham

  

1983:

Prof. John Anthony Jolowicz

  

1981:

Lord Lane of Horsell

  

1980:

Prof. Patrick Atiyah

  

1979:

Lord Wilberforce of Kingston-upon-Hull

  

1978:

Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone

  

1975:

Sir Leslie Scarman

  

1973:

Prof. Rupert Cross

  

1972:

Prof. Col. Gerald Draper

  

1971:

Prof. David Daube, Chief Justice Bora Laskin

  

1970:

Sir Garfield Barwick

  

1969:

Sir Leon Radzinowicz

  

1967:

Sir Cyril SaImon, Sir William Diplock

  

1966:

Dr. Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad

   

1964:

Prof. Herbert Hart

  

1963:

Sir Seymour Karminski

  

1962

Lord McNair of Gleniffer

  

1961:

Lord Denning of Whitchurch

  

1960:

Prof. Otto Kahn-Freund

  

1959:

Lord Parker of Waddington

  

1958:

Prof. David Perry, Prof. Glanville Williams

  

1957:

Lord Cohen of Walmer

  

1954:

Sir Raymond Evershed

  

1953: Prof. Arthur Goodhart

2010 Gallery

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