Regulation at home, but not abroad Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC Gresham Professor of Law This lecture will soon be available on the Gresham College website, where it will join our online archive of over 1,500 lectures www.gresham.ac.uk

GENERAL SETTING

President Gaddafi’s Personal Guard SAS Falklands

HOW THE LAW HAS CHANGED

Leo McKern Rumpole of The Bailey Ian Carmichael ’Brothers in Law’

REGULATION AT WORK – OR NOT

ELITE – OR NOT. HOW IT ACTUALLY WORKS

TAKING STOCK AND WHERE WE ARE

BACK TO JERSEY

SUPREME AUTHORITY – SUPREME FALLIBILITY

‘We are not final because we are right we are right because Baroness Hale ‘We are not final because we are right we are right because we are final’

Baroness Hale judges who have risen through the Bar, the Temples and other parts of the “establishment” are not always ideally placed to cast judgment on the complexities of modern life, “If the life-blood of the law is experience and common sense, then whose experience and common sense are we talking about? Surely it cannot only be the experience and common sense of the judges, many of whom have led such sheltered lives?”

HOW TO REGULATE THE INFALLIBLE

INTERNATIONAL COURTS