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2023 Underhill Lecture: A Conversation with Former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lady Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
Lady Hale retired as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the most senior Judge in the United Kingdom, in January 2020. Before becoming a Judge, she had a varied career, as an academic lawyer at the University of Manchester (also qualifying and practising for a while as a barrister in Manchester), as the first woman member of the Law Commission, where she led
successful projects in Family Law and Mental Capacity Law. She was appointed a High Court Judge in 1994, was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1999, and in 2004 became the first and only woman ‘Law Lord’ in the House of Lords, then the apex court in the United Kingdom. In 2009, the Law Lords were translated into the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. She became its Deputy President in 2013 and its first woman President in 2017. She holds a number of honorary and visiting academic appointments, several honorary degrees, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. In retirement she has spent her time in good works, speaking and writing – her memoir, Spiderwoman, A Life, was published in 2021.
Who: Lady Brenda Hale and Professor Amanda Tyler
When: Monday, April 3, 2023 from 12:50-2:00pm
Where: Booth Auditorium at Berkeley Law
This event is open to the campus and the general public
Events are wheelchair accessible. For disability-related accommodations, contact the organizer of the event. Advance notice is kindly requested.
The annual Underhill Lecture at UC Berkeley features a leading figure or figures from political or scholarly circles speaking on US and UK legal and/or political affairs.
You can watch recordings of previous Underhill Lectures using the link below:
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/anglo-american-studies-program/underhill-lecture/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UC Berkeley School of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Law Building #7200,Berkeley,CA,United States