The Robin Morse Memorial Lecture

Follow the school on Twitter@KCL_LawThe Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London is one of the oldest law schools in England and recognised globally as one of the best law schools in the world - ranking first in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 and one of the top 25 worldwide (QS).The School was established in 1831, and has played an integral role in the life of King's College London since the College was formed almost 200 years ago.It has one of this country's most distinguished research and teaching reputations - all staff are active in research and among the leading international experts. This helps us to continue to push the boundaries of academic thought and to innovate across disciplines.The School was renamed after the£20m donationfrom Sir Dickson Poon CBE, the Hong Kong based British philanthropist and was formallyopened by Her Majesty the Queenin February 2012.Sir Dickson Poon's £20m donation to the Law School, the largest in the College's history and believed to be the biggest ever to a British or European law faculty, is part of a £40m transformation project for the School which aims to further its reputation as one of the top law schools in the world and setting new standards in legal education and researchLocated in the heart of the British legal and political world and surrounded by major global law firms, The Dickson Poon School of Law offers you invaluable interaction with the wider legal community and opportunities to establish links with your peers and a wider professional network.

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The inaugural Morse Lecture will be delivered on Wednesday 7th November. It will be given by Lord Collins of Mapesbury on “Justiciability and the Conflict of Laws”. 
The lecture has been instituted in memory of Professor Robin Morse who died last year. He was widely admired both within King’s (where he served as Dean of the School of Law) and beyond it for his scholarship and dedication to teaching, especially of the conflict of laws.
Speaker Biography 
Lord Collins of Mapesbury is the country’s foremost exponent of the conflict of laws. Now an international arbitrator, he was successively a partner in Herbert Smith, the first practising solicitor to become a QC, the first solicitor appointed direct to the High Court Bench, Lord Justice of Appeal, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and Justice of the Supreme Court.  He has been general editor of Dicey Morris &amp; Collins on the Conflict of Laws since 1987, to which Robin Morse was a distinguished contributor under his editorship.

Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre

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