2013
Lord Hope of Craighead, formerly Lord President, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court
Stair Society, Miscellany VII (vol 62) 411-426.
Stair Society Lectures
The first occasion of an address being given at an AGM was in 1946. Professor A H Campbell, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh, spoke on Jurisprudence and its Relevance to the Law of Scotland in a Historical Context.
Our Annual Lecture was inaugurated in 1965, when Jack Halliday, Professor of Conveyancing in the University of Glasgow, delivered an address entitled A Lawyer Looks at Stair.
A lecture has been delivered every year since then, as the focal point of our annual meeting. Lecturers have included, and continue to include, lawyers and legal historians of distinction from Europe and the United States as well as from Scotland and England, and many of their lecture texts have been published.
Note: Unfortunately due to misunderstandings we do not have a copy of the lecture given by Professor Catharine MacMillan in 2023 on the subject ‘Making the Imperial Tribunal more truly imperial in its constitution: the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and colonial judges.’
2012
Professor Norma Dawson, Professor of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Stair Society, Miscellany VII (vol 62) 359-380; Open Access: https://doi.org/10.36098/stairsoc/9781872517292.5
2011
Professor Nial Osborough, Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal History at University College Dublin
Stair Society, Miscellany VII (vol 62) 381-409
2010
Dr John Ford, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Juridical Review (2011) 45-76; Stair Society, Miscellany VII (vol 62) 179-215
2009
Professor Michael Lobban, Professor of Legal History, Queen Mary, University of London School of Law
Stair Society, Miscellany VII (vol 62) 337-358; Open Access: https://doi.org/10.36098/stairsoc/9781872517292.3
2008
Professor John H Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School
2007
Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, University of Edinburgh
Stair Society, Miscellany VI (vol 54) 1-10
2006
Professor Olivia Robinson, Professor Emeritus of Roman Law, University of Glasgow
Stair Society, Miscellany VI (vol 54) 11-27
2005
Professor David Ibbetson, Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Cambridge
Published as ‘Common Law Evolution: The Influence of Mixed Legal Systems’ in Stair Society, Miscellany VI (vol 54) 267-282
2004
Professor Richard Helmholz, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Stair Society, Miscellany V (vol 52) 169-187
2024 Stair Society Annual Lecture
The Stair Society’s Annual General Meeting was held in the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Saturday 16 November 2024 by courtesy of the Faculty of Advocates. It was given by Professor Cynthia Neville will give the Annual Lecture. Her title is ‘March Law as Auld Law in the