Forthcoming Lecture
Monday, 10 June 2013
6 - 7 p.m. - Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

John Sheridan

Head of Legislation at The National Archives



"Legislation, users and the web -
legislation.gov.uk and the future of the 
statute book"


For more information and for details of
all 2013 events click here

 

 

2013 LORD RODGER ESSAY PRIZE
Deadline for applications:
15 September 2013
The £1,000 prize will be awarded to the winning entrant at the
2013 Lord Renton Lecture. 
For more information click here
To download an entry form click here.



New in the Library

2012 Lord Renton Lecture:  Outline of the lecture delivered by AG Eleanor Sharpston QC on 26 November 2012.
Through a glass darkly: Transposing EU drafting into English Statutes.  Choices, Teleology and True Meaning.


Teaching Legislation in UK Law Schools
Survey results.

Statute Law:
Making Legislation

For details of this SLS
project, with link to video series
on iTunes-U click here

The Statute Law Society was founded in 1968 and has members throughout Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. The Society is a charitable body which aims to educate the legal profession and the public about the legislative process, with a view to encouraging improvements in statute law.

The current Chairman of the Society is Lord Dyson, former Justice of the Supreme Court and currently Master of the Rolls, the head of the civil judiciary in England and Wales.  For details of other members of the Council click here.

The Society fulfils its brief by:

  • Keeping members informed via our Legislative E-mail alerts

    • updates on literature of interest

    • lectures and events offered by the Society and other groups

  • organising Statute Law Society lectures and conferences.

  • providing opportunities for informal discussion among members of the legislative community through Society events.

    Constitution of the Statute Law Society

 

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