It is an honour to have been invited to join you in celebrating sixty years of the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. The question posed by my lecture – what are university law schools for? – is one to which Queen Mary gives a convincing answer as I will go on to explain. Some of you might wonder why I bother to pose this question at all. Surely, at least one of the purposes of university law schools is obvious: to prepare students for careers as lawyers and judges. But this is not obvious at all … (more)
Lord Reed of Allermuir, ‘What are university law schools for? Celebrating 60 years of the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London’, 16 October 2025.
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