Schulich School of Law

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
2014	38th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Obama Administration's Unfinished Human Rights Agenda" Professor Harold Koh Sterling Professor of International Law of the Yale Law School.
2014	37th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp; "The Utility of 'Law and Literature' to Legal Education" Professor Melanie Williams University of Exeter School of Law
2013	36th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa" The Honourable Justice Yak Zacoob Constitutional Court of South Africa
2012	35th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Beyond Analogies: Race, Feminism, and Law in the US Civil Rights Revolution" Professor Serena Mayeri University of Pennsylvania Law School
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 Nova Scotia Provincial Court
2010	33rd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Reconciliation: Will We Know It When We See It?" The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair Chair, Truth & Reconciliation Commission
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 Executive Director, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
2008	31st Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The International Criminal Court in Action" William A Schabas, OC Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights National University of Ireland
2007	30th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Utility and Rights in Common Law Reasoning: Rebalancing Private Law" Professor Hugh Collins Fellow of the British Academy Professor of English Law Department of Law, London School of Economics
2006	29th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Will Gay Judges Make a Difference? Reflections on the Judiciary" Justice David L Corbett Ontario Superior Court
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 Pro Vice Chancellor (Law & Government) and Dean of Law Victoria University of Wellington
2004	27th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Tribunals Imitating Courts: Foolish Flattery or Sound Policy?" Professor David J Mullan Faculty of Law Queen's University
2003	26th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture Professor David Vaver Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Director, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre St Peter's College, Oxford
2002	Cancelled due to strike
2001	25th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "International Criminal Justice: Theory and Practice" The Honourable Louise Arbour Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
2000	-
1999	24th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Can Politicians Deal with the Concept of Dying?" The Honourable Sharon Carstairs Senator for Manitoba Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate
1998	-
1997	23rd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Simplifying Canada's Byzantine Tax Legislation: Will Flatter Rates Help?" Professor Neil Brooks Osgoode Hall Law School York University
1996	22nd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Language Question in a Rainbow Nation: South African Experience" Justice Albie L Sachs Constitutional Court of South Africa
1995	21st Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Future Directions in International Environmental Law: Precaution, Integration and Non-State Actors" Dr James Cameron Director, Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development
1994	20th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Losing the Struggle for Another Voice?: The Case of Family Law" Professor Carol Smart Department of Sociology University of Leeds
1993	19th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Running Hard to Stand Still: The Paradox of Family Law Reform" Professor Mary Jane Mossman Osgoode Hall Law School York University
1992	18th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Investigating Cases of Child Abuse and Avoiding British Mistakes" Professor Alistair Bissett-Johnson Professor of Private Law University of Dundee
1991	17th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Madame Justice Wilson: Trailblazer for Justice" The Right Honourable Brian Dickson Former Chief Justice of Canada
1990	16th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Beyond 'Thinking Like a Lawyer': Directions in Legal Education" Professor C Lynn Smith Faculty of Law University of British Columbia
1989	15th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Research in a Changing World of Law and Technology" Professor Morris L Cohen Law Librarian Yale Law School
1988	14th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Spycatcher Controversy" Professor David GT Williams President Wolfson College, Cambridge
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 Osgoode Hall Law School York University
1986	12th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Recent Reform in Family Law: Progress or Backlash?" Professor Brenda Hoggett Commissioner, The English Law Commission Manchester University
1985	11th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Québec Legal Education Since 1945: Cultural Paradoxes and Traditional Ambiguities" Professor John EC Brierley Sir William Macdonald Professor of Law McGill University
1984	10th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "The Ascendancy of Legislation: Legal Problem Solving in Our Time" Professor Frank P Grad Chamberlain Professor of Legislation Director, Legislative Drafting Research Fund Columbia University
1983	9th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Federal State Clauses in The Hague Conventions on Private International Law" Dr H Allan Leal, QC Vice-Chairman, Ontario Law Reform Commission
1982	8th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Legal Education and Professional Responsibility" Professor F Murray Fraser, QC University of Victoria
1981	7th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Revision and Codification of Penal Law in the United States" Professor Herbert Wechsler Director of the American Law Institute, New York
1980	6th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Hague Conventions and the Reform of English Conflict Laws" Dr Peter M North Fellow of Keble College, Oxford Law Commissioner for England and Wales
1979	5th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Law Schools and Other Reformatories" Dr Norval Morris Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology University of Chicago Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States
1978	4th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Legislation and Its Limits" Professor AE Anton, FBA Professor Jurisprudence, Glasgow University Commissioner, Scottish Law Commission
1977	3rd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Limitation on the Extraterritorial Application of Law" Professor Willis LM Reese Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law Columbia University
1976	2nd Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Paradoxes of Canadian Legal Education" Professor HW Arthurs Osgoode Hall Law School York University
1975	1st Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture "Statutory Interpretation: An Outline of Method" Professor John M Kernochan Columbia University

Dalhousie University

Schulich School of Law

Horace E Read Memorial Lecture

2017/18 40th Annual Horace E Read Memorial Lecture

Friday, January 19, 2018 - 1 PM, Rm 207

"The Obama Administration's Unfinished Human Rights Agenda"

"The Utility of 'Law and Literature' to Legal Education"

"Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa"

"Beyond Analogies: Race, Feminism, and Law in the US Civil Rights Revolution"

"We Shall Not Cease From Exploration: Narratives from the Hyde Inquiry about Mental Health and Criminal Justice"

"Reconciliation: Will We Know It When We See It?"

"Prison Walls: Who Do They Really Protect? The challenges in correcting Corrections with the Rule of Law does not penetrate prison walls"

"The International Criminal Court in Action"

"Utility and Rights in Common Law Reasoning: Rebalancing Private Law"

"Will Gay Judges Make a Difference? Reflections on the Judiciary"

"The Nature of Constitutional 'Protection': Indigenous Rights Under a Written and an Unwritten Constitution"

"Tribunals Imitating Courts: Foolish Flattery or Sound Policy?"

"International Criminal Justice: Theory and Practice"

"Can Politicians Deal with the Concept of Dying?"

"Simplifying Canada's Byzantine Tax Legislation: Will Flatter Rates Help?"

"The Language Question in a Rainbow Nation: South African Experience"

"Future Directions in International Environmental Law: Precaution, Integration and Non-State Actors"

"Losing the Struggle for Another Voice?: The Case of Family Law"

"Running Hard to Stand Still: The Paradox of Family Law Reform"

"Investigating Cases of Child Abuse and Avoiding British Mistakes"

"Madame Justice Wilson: Trailblazer for Justice"

"Beyond 'Thinking Like a Lawyer': Directions in Legal Education"

"Research in a Changing World of Law and Technology"

"The Spycatcher Controversy"

"The Corporate Social Responsibility Movement, a Last Ditch Effort to Save Capitalism's Reputation"

"Recent Reform in Family Law: Progress or Backlash?"

"Québec Legal Education Since 1945: Cultural Paradoxes and Traditional Ambiguities"

"The Ascendancy of Legislation: Legal Problem Solving in Our Time"

"Federal State Clauses in The Hague Conventions on Private International Law"

"Legal Education and Professional Responsibility"

"Revision and Codification of Penal Law in the United States"

"Hague Conventions and the Reform of English Conflict Laws"

"Law Schools and Other Reformatories"

"Legislation and Its Limits"

"Limitation on the Extraterritorial Application of Law"

"Paradoxes of Canadian Legal Education"

"Statutory Interpretation: An Outline of Method"