The EU as a Source of Inspiration: The 2012 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture

The CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture Podcast

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🗓️ 13 February 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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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 2012 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Sir Konrad Schiemann (European Court of Justice) on Thursday 9th February 2012, and was entitled "The EU as a Source of Inspiration". 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	Welcome to the 2012 McKenzie Stewart Lecture and a special welcome to the members
0:11.0	of the McKenzie Stewart family who are with us, Jack's daughter Amanda Hay and her daughter,
0:18.0	Marianna. We're privileged to have us our lecturer this evening, Sir Conrad Schumann,
0:25.7	who as the present occupant of the UK's seat on the Court of Justice of the EU, is the most
0:32.4	recent successor of Jack McKenzie Stewart. Sir Conrad will be known to many of those here because he has been
0:40.3	such a good friend to Seals and a loyal supporter of cells activities since he joined
0:48.3	the advisory board of the Centre in 1996. Sir Conrad was born in Berlin just before the Second World War
0:57.3	and came to England in 1946 as a small boy.
1:01.4	He received the remainder of his schooling in this country,
1:05.3	was commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers for his national service,
1:11.5	Red Lord Cambridge from 1958 to 1962,
1:16.3	and then embarked on a career path
1:19.4	which has been littered with glittering prizes.
1:23.9	He started at the bar in 1964, took silk in 1980, became a High Court judge in 1986,
1:31.3	and the Lord Justice of Appeal in 1995, was treasurer of the inner temple in 2003,
1:39.3	and took up his prison position at the Court of Justice in 2004.
1:45.0	It would be of his background and his professional experience.
1:51.0	There are few people as well qualified as Sir Conrad to remind us why we need the European Union
1:58.0	and why we should feel inspired by it.
2:07.1	So it's with keen anticipation that I invite Sir Conrad to address us on his theme,
2:09.4	the EU as a source of inspiration. Thank you very much, Alan, for your kind words.
2:22.8	I'd rather hoped that the 102 Tory MPs signatories of a recent letter to the Daily
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