1. 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

2. GENERAL SETTING

3. President Gaddafi’s Personal Guard
SAS
Falklands

4. HOW THE LAW
HAS CHANGED

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

6. REGULATION AT
WORK – OR NOT

7. ELITE – OR NOT.
HOW IT
ACTUALLY WORKS

8. TAKING STOCK
AND
WHERE WE ARE

9. BACK TO JERSEY

10. SUPREME AUTHORITY –
SUPREME FALLIBILITY

11. ‘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’

12. 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?”

13. HOW TO
REGULATE THE
INFALLIBLE

14. INTERNATIONAL
COURTS