Lasok Lectures
A series of major public lectures has been given annually since 1977. The intention has been to invite a well-known figure prominent in the affairs of the to deliver a paper on some aspect of European Union Law of current and significant interest to a wide public audience.
Those giving the lectures have included members of the Commission, Judges and Advocates-General of the European Court of Justice, and leading academics.
Recent lecturers have included Sir Gordon Slynn, The Rt Hon Sir Edward Heath, Michael Beloff, Q.C., a leading specialist in administrative and human rights law and Joseph Weiler, European Union Jean Monnet Professor of law, Director, The Centre for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University (NYO).
The Lectures are named after Dominic Lasok QC (1921-2000), Emeritus Professor of European Law. Professor Lasok was one of the pioneers of the academic world of European Law. As the first Director of the University of Exeter's Centre for European Legal Studies, Professor Lasok developed the LLM programmes in European Law. He received many honours including Honorary Doctorates from Universities in Aix-Marseilles, Istanbul and Poznan, honorary membership of the Virginia Bar, the Polish Order of Merit and was an officer of the French L'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. As a tribute to this remarkable man, the University has a memorial fund in his name, the money from which is being used to improve the resources of the Lasok Law Library.
All Lasok lectures are video linked to our Cornwall Campus.
The Lasok Lecture 2010:
‘When the State is the Owner: the Wavering Strategy of the European Court of Justice’
Thursday 25 March 6:00PM In the Parker Moot Room, Amory Building.
To be delivered by Professor Andrea Biondi King’s College London
Followed by a wine reception at the XFI Centre
RSVP: by Friday 19 March to
Sarah Roberts
S.L.Roberts@ex.ac.uk
Lasok Lecture 2009
 The last Lasok Lecture "Institutional change in the European Union: its mechanisms and its nature" was given by Professor Bruno De Witte on 9th March 2009 at 6.00 pm in the Parker Moot Room, Amory Building.
Download leaflet (Adobe PDF)
Watch the lecture online now >>
Lasok Lecture 2008
The next Lasok Lecture "The Failure of the EU's Constitution-Making Project, and Some Other Reasons to be Cheerful"
was given by Professor Stephen Weatherill on 10 March 2008 at 5.15pm in the Moot Room, Amory Building. Stephen Weatherill is Jacques Delors Professor of European Law and a Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford.
The lecture can be viewed again by clicking on the following link: mms://graduation.ex.ac.uk/lasoklecture.wmv
Lasok Lecture 2007
The 2007 Lasok Lecture marked the 30th year of Lasok Lectures. "The European Court of Justice - new Structures for a new era" was given by Judge Nicholas Forwood of the Court of the First Instance of the European Communities. It took place on Monday 4 June in The Parker Moot Room, Amory Building.
Lasok Lecture 2006
Prof Dr Georg Ress
Professor of International Law, University of Bremen, Germany
Lasok Lecture 2005
Paul Lasok QC
Monckton Chambers
'The European Constitution: New Wine or Old?' (pdf doc)
Lasok Lecture 2004
Gisela Stuart MP
Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, former representative for national parliaments on the presidium of the Convention on the Future of Europe
'The Making of Europe's Constitution'
Lasok Lecture 2003
Professor Thymen Koopmans
Judge of the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Supreme Court of the Netherlands) (1978-79); Judge at the Court of Justice from 29 March 1979 to 29 March 1990
'Law, Politics and the Judiciary in the European Union' pdf document
Lasok Lecture 2002
Joseph Weiler
European Union Jean Monnet Professor of Law, Director, The Centre for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University (NYO), School of Law
'The Convention on the Future of the European Union: Some 'Unconventional' Observations'
Lasok Lecture 2001
Professor Aslan Gündüz
Director of the European Community Institute, Marmara University, Istanbul
'Enlargement of the European Union – a view form the East with special reference to Turkey'
Read the complete list of previous speakers of the Lasok Lectures 1977 -2006
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