Modern Law Review
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The Modern Law Review (print: ISSN 0026-7961, online: ISSN 1468-2230) is a law review published in the United Kingdom by John Wiley & Sons and which has traditionally maintained close academic ties with the Law Department of the London School of Economics.
The review is a general peer-reviewed journal that publishes original articles relating to common law jurisdictions, and increasingly to the law of the European Union. In addition to publishing articles in all branches of the law, the review contains sections devoted to recent legislation and reports, to case analysis, and to review articles and book reviews. The current general editor is Hugh Collins (London School of Economics).
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[edit] Charitable foundations
The "Modern Law Review Ltd." was established in 1937 as a charity devoted to the promotion of legal education, the study of law and all other arts and sciences which may be of interest to those involved in the study or practice of law. The Modern Law Review Ltd. promotes these objectives by the publication of the law review and also by the organisation of lectures, seminars, scholarships, and prizes that support legal education and scholarship.
Currently the Modern Law Review Ltd. offers up to £50,000 annually in financial support for outstanding research students engaged on doctoral research at a university in the United Kingdom on any subject broadly within the publishing interests of the review and further £30,000 annually to support scholarly seminars on any subject broadly within the publishing interests of the review. In addition, the review provides the funding to host the annual Chorley Lecture.
[edit] Chorley Lecture
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The Chorley Lecture is an annual lecture inaugurated in 1972 and named in honour of Lord Chorley of Kendal, the founding editor of the Modern Law Review. The lecture, which is normally delivered in early June at the London School of Economics, is the most important occasion in the calendar of The Modern Law Review. A version of the lecture is subsequently published as the lead article in the January issue of the following year's volume.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 in the Shaw Library, LSE at 6.00 pm. Admission is free without a ticket and open to the public.
| Year | Lecturer | Title |
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| 2010 | Andrew Ashworth | Ignorance of the Criminal Law, and Duties to Avoid it |
| 2009 | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im | The Compatibility Dialectic:Mediating the Legitimate Coexistence of Islamic Law and State Law |
| 2008 | Gunther Teubner | Self-subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendence Formula of Law? |
| 2007 | Lani Guinier | Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking the Political Representative as Powerful Stranger |
| 2006 | Martti Koskenniemi | The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics |
| 2005 | Noelle Lenoir | Biotechnology, Bioethics and Law: Europe's 21st Century Challenge |
| 2004 | Simon Roberts | After Government? On Representing Law Without State |
| 2003 | Bob Hepple | Race and Law in Fortress Europe |
| 2002 | Frank Michelman | Constitutional Legitimation for Political Acts |
| 2001 | Carol Harlow | Public Law and Popular Justice |
| 2000 | Jutta Limbach | The Concept of the Supremacy of the Constitution |
| 1999 | Kader Asmal | Truth, Reconciliation and Justice: The South African Experience in Perspective |
| 1998 | Lord Anthony Giddens | Risk and Responsibility |
| 1997 | Antonio Cassese | Reflections on International Criminal Justice |
| 1996 | C. A. E. Goodhart | Economics and the Law: Too Much One-Way Traffic? |
| 1995 | Roberto Unger | Legal Analysis as Institutional Imagination |
| 1994 | W.R.Cornish | Authors in Law |
| 1993 | Lord Runciman | An Outsider’s View of the Criminal Justice System |
| 1992 | Sir Neil MacCormick | Beyond the Sovereign State |
| 1991 | Marc Galanter | Law Abounding: Legislation around the North Atlantic |
| 1990 | Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | The Social Charter in Britain – Labour Law and Labour Courts? |
| 1989 | Nicole Questiaux | Bicentenary of a Declaration: A Time for Challenge? |
| 1988 | Dame Rosalyn Higgins | Human Rights: Some Questions of Integrity |
| 1987 | L.C.B.Gower | Big Bang and City Regulation |
| 1986 | Hein Kotz | Taking Civil Codes Less Seriously |
| 1985 | R Abel | The Decline of Professionalism |
| 1984 | PS Atiyah | Common Law and Statute Law |
| 1983 | D Hay | The Criminal Prosecution of England and its Historians |
| 1982 | JPWB McAuslan | Administrative Law, Judicial Policy and Collective Consumption |
| 1981 | A Tunc | A French Lawyer looks at British Company Law |
| 1980 | SM Cretney | The Codification of Family Law |
| 1979 | GF Mancini | Politics and the Judges: The European Perspective |
| 1978 | JAG Griffith | The Political Constitution |
| 1977 | The Hon. Mr Justice Kerr | Modern Trends in Commercial Law and Practice |
| 1976 | Lord Dahrendorf | A Confusion of Powers: Politics and the Rule Law |
| 1975 | Lord Devlin | Judges and Lawmakers |
| 1974 | S Simitis | Workers’ Participation in the Enterprise – Transcending Company Law? |
| 1973 | Sir Otto Kahn-Freund | The Uses and Abuses of Comparative Law |
| 1972 | HLA Hart | Bentham and the Demystification of the Law |
[edit] Wedderburn Prize
The Wedderburn Prize is named in honour of Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, who served as general editor of the review from 1971 to 1988. It is awarded annually for a contribution to that year's volume which in the opinion of the Editorial Committee is exemplary of the type of scholarship that the Modern Law Review aims to promote. In awarding this Prize, the Committee pays particular attention to the work of authors who are at a relatively early stage of their careers.
Past Winners
| Year | Winner | Title |
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| 2009 | Ruth Dukes | Otto Kahn-Freund and Collective Laissez Faire: An Edifice Without a Keystone (72 MLR 220) |
| 2008 | Nico Krisch | The Open Architecture of European Human Rights Law (71 MLR 183) |
| 2007 | Andrew T.F. Lang | Reflecting on ‘Linkage’: Cognitive and Institutional Changes in The International Trading System (70 MLR 523) |
| 2006 | Peter Ramsay | The Responsible Subject as Citizen: Criminal Law, Democracy and the Welfare State (69 MLR 29) |
| 2005 | David Kershaw | Evading Enron: Taking Principles Too Seriously in Accounting Regulation (68 MLR 594) |
| 2004 (Joint Winners) |
Jonathan Morgan |
Tort, Insurance and Incoherence (67 MLR 384) Regulating Marriage and Cohabitation in 21st Century Britain (67 MLR 143) |
| 2003 | Andrew Scott | ‘A Monstrous and Unjustifiable Infringement'?: Political Expression and the Broadcasting Ban on Advocacy Advertising (66 MLR 224) |
| 2002 | Charles Manga Fombad | The Protection of Freedom of Expression in the Public Service Media in Southern Africa: A Botswana Perspective (65 MLR 649) |
| 2001 | Kimberlee Weatherall | Culture, Autonomy and Djulibinyamurr: Individual and Community in the Construction of Rights to Traditional Designs (64 MLR 215) |
| 2000 | Ian Roxan | Assuring Real Freedom of Movement in EU Direct Taxation (63 MLR 831) |
| 1999 | Aileen McHarg | Reconciling Human Rights in the Public Interest: Conceptual Problems and Doctrinal Uncertainty in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (62 MLR 671) |
| 1998 | Alan Story | Compensation for Banned Handguns: Indemnifying "Old Property" (61 MLR 188) |
| 1997 | Damian Chalmers | Judicial Preferences and the Community Legal Order (60 MLR 164) |
| 1996 | Helen Reece | Losses of Chances in the Law (59 MLR 188) |
| 1995 | Jane Stapleton | Tort, Insurance and Ideology (58 MLR 820) |
| 1994 | Alain Pottage | The Measure of Land (57 MLR 361) |
| 1993 | John Flood and Andrew Caiger | Lawyers and Arbitration: The Juridification of Construction Disputes (56 MLR 412) |
| 1992 | Lindsay Farmer | "The Genius of our Law." Criminal Law and the Scottish Legal Tradition |
