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.
1991
Sheriff David B Smith
Records of the Scottish Church History Society, xxv (1993) 1-18
1990
Dr William Ferguson
Stair Society, Miscellany III (vol 39) 1-26
1989
The Hon Lord Mackenzie Stuart, Judge of the European Court of Justice
Denning Law Review 6 (1991) 119-129
1988
The Hon Lord Maxwell, Senator of the College of Justice and Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission
1987
James J Robertson, MA, LLB, FSA Scot, Faculty of Law, University of Dundee
Renaissance Studies, ii (1988) 339-346
1986
1985
The Rt Hon Lord Fraser of Tullybelton, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
1986 SLT (News) 33-37
1984
The Rt Hon Lord Avonside, Senator of the College of Justice
1983
Professor Alan Harding
Juridical Review 29 n s (1984) 97-111
2024 Stair Society Annual Lecture
The Stair Society’s Annual General Meeting will be held in the Mackenzie Building, Old Assembly Close, Edinburgh on Saturday 16 November 2024 by courtesy of the Faculty of Advocates. For members, the business part of the meeting will take place from 10:30 to 11:00 am, after which tea and coffee