40 Years an EU Lawyer - Apologia pro vita sua (40 Years and Still Motoring): The 2011 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture

The CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture Podcast

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🗓️ 14 March 2011

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The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2011 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Professor Alan Dashwood on Friday 11th March 2011, and was entitled '40 Years an EU Lawyer - Apologia pro vita sua (40 Years and Still Motoring)'. In the lecture, Professor Dashwood looked back at his experience of the development of the European Union and it's legal framework over his 40 year career. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

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0:00.0	Good evening everybody and a very warm welcome to this year's Mackenzie Stewart Lecture.
0:11.0	As I'm sure you know, the Mackenzie Stewart lectures were founded in honour of the memory of Lord
0:17.5	Mackenzie Stewart, a distinguished Scottish lawyer who was a bridge
0:24.3	builder as an engineer at one stage in his career and then a builder of bridges between
0:30.8	the UK and Europe as the UK's first judge at the Luxembourg court.
0:38.3	It's a great pleasure to see Amanda, Julia, Marianna, his descendants here.
0:45.3	And I should mention that this lecture as the previous ones are sponsored by German and Sterling,
0:53.3	most generously to whom we're grateful.
0:57.4	And it's particularly appropriate that this year's lecture is going to be given by Alan Dashwood
1:02.7	because the creation of these lectures was actually a Dashwood initiative, one of many
1:08.4	when he was professor.
1:15.3	And to chair the session and to further introduce Alan,
1:19.1	may I introduce the introducer, Sir Conrad Sheeeman,
1:24.0	who, as I'm sure you know, is one of the Cambridge Free.
1:31.7	That's to say, he's one of our two judges and our advocate general, all with Kepage connections, Luxembourg and congratulations.
1:35.5	Congratulations.
1:36.5	Well, you've been welcomed, I've been welcomed, and I'm now going to welcome Alan Dashwood whom you know probably
1:46.4	rather better than I do although I have known him for rather longer I imagine than any of
1:51.4	you have pretty well he really has been around and he is a European and he's worked as some of you will know in Brussels for years. He's been a professor in Lester,
2:07.6	a professor here, and I come across him at the law court where he appears on behalf of the
2:14.1	British government and others and endeavors to persuade me, which of course
2:18.7	he always succeeds in doing and my colleagues, which he occasionally persuades in doing,
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