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: |
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 2019: |
Prof. Philippe Sands QC "East West Street: Then and Now"
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| 2018: |
The Right Honorable Sir Terence Etherton "The Universality of the Rule of Law as an International Standard" Gallery
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| 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"
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| 2016: |
The Right Honourable Lord Dyson, former Master of the Rolls of England and Wales "Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism" Gallery
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| 2015: |
Sir Christopher John Greenwood "Magna Carta and the Development of Modern International Law" Invitation
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| 2014: |
The Right Honorable Lady Justice Heather Hallet, "Being a Judge in the Modern World" Invitation
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| 2013: |
The Right Honourable Sir Stanley Burnton - "Immigration and International Law"
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| 2012: |
The Right Honorable the Lord Grabiner QC - "Sex, Scandal and Super-Injunctions: the Controversies Surrounding the Protection of Privacy" Invitation Gallery
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| 2011: |
The Right Honorable the Lord Igor Judge, Lord Chief Justice and President of the Courts of England and Wales Gallery
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| 2010: |
The Right Honorable the Lord David Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls, Head of the Civil Justice in England and Wales Gallery
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| 2009: |
The Right Honorable the Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal, the Attorney General of the United Kingdom
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| 2008: |
Sir Mark Potter
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| 2007: |
Sir Lawrence Collins
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| 2006: |
Baroness Deech of Cumnor
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| 2005: |
Baroness Hale of Richmond
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| 2004: |
Sir Jack Beatson
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| 2003: |
Lord Woolf of Barnes
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| 2002: |
Lord Pannick of Radlett
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| 2001: |
Lord Hope of Craighead
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| 2000: |
Prof. Peter Birks
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| 1999: |
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
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| 1998: |
Lord Hoffman of Chedworth
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| 1997: |
Prof. Michael Zander
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| 1996: |
Lord Mustill of Pateley Bridge
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| 1995: |
Prof. Dawn Oliver
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| 1994: |
Lord Lester of Herne Hill
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| 1993: |
Prof. Basil Markesinis
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| 1992: |
Lord Lowry of Crossgar
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| 1991: |
Sir Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson
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| 1990: |
Prof. Roy Goode
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| 1989: |
Lord Oliver of Aylemerton
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| 1987: |
Lord Goff of Chieveley
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| 1985: |
Prof. Gareth Jones
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| 1984: |
Lord Elwyn-Jones of Llanelli and Newham
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| 1983: |
Prof. John Anthony Jolowicz
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| 1981: |
Lord Lane of Horsell
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| 1980: |
Prof. Patrick Atiyah
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| 1979: |
Lord Wilberforce of Kingston-upon-Hull
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| 1978: |
Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone
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| 1975: |
Sir Leslie Scarman
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| 1973: |
Prof. Rupert Cross
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| 1972: |
Prof. Col. Gerald Draper
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| 1971: |
Prof. David Daube, Chief Justice Bora Laskin
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| 1970: |
Sir Garfield Barwick
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| 1969: |
Sir Leon Radzinowicz
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| 1967: |
Sir Cyril SaImon, Sir William Diplock
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| 1966: |
Dr. Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad
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| 1964: |
Prof. Herbert Hart
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| 1963: |
Sir Seymour Karminski
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| 1962 |
Lord McNair of Gleniffer
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| 1961: |
Lord Denning of Whitchurch
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| 1960: |
Prof. Otto Kahn-Freund
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| 1959: |
Lord Parker of Waddington
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| 1958: |
Prof. David Perry, Prof. Glanville Williams
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| 1957: |
Lord Cohen of Walmer
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| 1954: |
Sir Raymond Evershed
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| 1953: | Prof. Arthur Goodhart |
