Horace E Read Memorial Lecture
The Read Lecture series was inaugurated in 1975 to honour the memory of the late Horace E Read, OC, QC, who was Dean of Dalhousie Law School from 1950 until 1964, in recognition of his contribution to legal education and legal scholarship.
Dr Read's areas of interest were broad: law reform, legislation and the legislative process, conflict of law, labour law and legal education, and this is well reflected in the diversity of the lectures.
2017/18 40th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture
Friday, January 19, 2018 - 1 PM, Rm 207
This year's speaker is Annelise Riles, Jack G. Clarke Professor of Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell Law School. She will discuss "The Sociality of the Platform." How might we rethink the architecture and potentiality of the digital public sphere? Riles will describe one experiment in doing so—Meridian 180, “a multilingual platform for policy solutions+experimentation”—as an attempt to infuse a different sensibility into the digital public sphere. Riles argues from this experience that the “platform” as a genre of techno-sociality demands not only a critical anthropology of digital culture but a new ethics of friendship.
Speakers in this series | |
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2014 |
38th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Obama Administration's Unfinished Human Rights Agenda"Professor Harold Koh |
2014 |
37th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture
"The Utility of 'Law and Literature' to Legal Education"Professor Melanie Williams |
2013 |
36th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa"The Honourable Justice Yak Zacoob |
2012 |
35th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Beyond Analogies: Race, Feminism, and Law in the US Civil Rights Revolution"Professor Serena Mayeri |
2011 |
34th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "We Shall Not Cease From Exploration: Narratives from the Hyde Inquiry about Mental Health and Criminal Justice"The Honourable Judge Anne Derrick |
2010 |
33rd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Reconciliation: Will We Know It When We See It?"The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair |
2009 |
32nd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Prison Walls: Who Do They Really Protect? The challenges in correcting Corrections with the Rule of Law does not penetrate prison walls"Kim Pate |
2008 |
31st Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The International Criminal Court in Action"William A Schabas, OC |
2007 | 30th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Utility and Rights in Common Law Reasoning: Rebalancing Private Law"Professor Hugh Collins |
2006 | 29th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Will Gay Judges Make a Difference? Reflections on the Judiciary"Justice David L Corbett |
2005 | 28th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Nature of Constitutional 'Protection': Indigenous Rights Under a Written and an Unwritten Constitution"Professor Matthew Palmer |
2004 | 27th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Tribunals Imitating Courts: Foolish Flattery or Sound Policy?"Professor David J Mullan |
2003 | 26th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture Professor David Vaver |
2002 | Cancelled due to strike |
2001 | 25th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "International Criminal Justice: Theory and Practice"The Honourable Louise Arbour |
2000 | - |
1999 | 24th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Can Politicians Deal with the Concept of Dying?"The Honourable Sharon Carstairs |
1998 | - |
1997 | 23rd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Simplifying Canada's Byzantine Tax Legislation: Will Flatter Rates Help?"Professor Neil Brooks |
1996 | 22nd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Language Question in a Rainbow Nation: South African Experience"Justice Albie L Sachs |
1995 | 21st Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Future Directions in International Environmental Law: Precaution, Integration and Non-State Actors"Dr James Cameron |
1994 | 20th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Losing the Struggle for Another Voice?: The Case of Family Law"Professor Carol Smart |
1993 | 19th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Running Hard to Stand Still: The Paradox of Family Law Reform"Professor Mary Jane Mossman |
1992 | 18th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Investigating Cases of Child Abuse and Avoiding British Mistakes"Professor Alistair Bissett-Johnson |
1991 | 17th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Madame Justice Wilson: Trailblazer for Justice"The Right Honourable Brian Dickson |
1990 | 16th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Beyond 'Thinking Like a Lawyer': Directions in Legal Education"Professor C Lynn Smith |
1989 | 15th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Research in a Changing World of Law and Technology"Professor Morris L Cohen |
1988 | 14th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Spycatcher Controversy"Professor David GT Williams |
1987 | 13th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Corporate Social Responsibility Movement, a Last Ditch Effort to Save Capitalism's Reputation"Professor Harry J Glasbeek |
1986 | 12th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Recent Reform in Family Law: Progress or Backlash?"Professor Brenda Hoggett |
1985 | 11th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Québec Legal Education Since 1945: Cultural Paradoxes and Traditional Ambiguities"Professor John EC Brierley |
1984 | 10th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Ascendancy of Legislation: Legal Problem Solving in Our Time"Professor Frank P Grad |
1983 | 9th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Federal State Clauses in The Hague Conventions on Private International Law"Dr H Allan Leal, QC |
1982 | 8th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Legal Education and Professional Responsibility"Professor F Murray Fraser, QC |
1981 | 7th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Revision and Codification of Penal Law in the United States"Professor Herbert Wechsler |
1980 | 6th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Hague Conventions and the Reform of English Conflict Laws"Dr Peter M North |
1979 | 5th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Law Schools and Other Reformatories"Dr Norval Morris |
1978 | 4th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Legislation and Its Limits"Professor AE Anton, FBA |
1977 | 3rd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Limitation on the Extraterritorial Application of Law"Professor Willis LM Reese |
1976 | 2nd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Paradoxes of Canadian Legal Education"Professor HW Arthurs |
1975 | 1st Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Statutory Interpretation: An Outline of Method"Professor John M Kernochan |