The Modern Law Review is a law review

Law review

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 published in the United Kingdom by John Wiley & Sons

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 and which has traditionally maintained close academic ties with the Law Department of the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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.

The review is a general peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 journal that publishes original articles relating to common law jurisdictions, and increasingly to the law of the European Union. In addition to publishing articles in all branches of the law, the review contains sections devoted to recent legislation and reports, to case analysis, and to review articles and book reviews. The current general editor

Editor in chief

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 is Hugh Collins

Hugh Collins

Hugh Collins F.B.A. is the Professor of English Law and Head of the Law Department at the London School of Economics. He is also the general editor for the Modern Law Review, the most widely read British academic law journal...

 (London School of Economics).

Charitable foundations

The "Modern Law Review Ltd." was established in 1937 as a charity devoted to the promotion of legal education, the study of law and all other arts and sciences which may be of interest to those involved in the study or practice of law. The Modern Law Review Ltd. promotes these objectives by the publication of the law review and also by the organisation of lectures, seminars, scholarships, and prizes that support legal education and scholarship.

Currently the Modern Law Review Ltd. offers up to £50,000 annually in financial support for outstanding research students engaged on doctoral research at a university in the United Kingdom on any subject broadly within the publishing interests of the review and further £30,000 annually to support scholarly seminars on any subject broadly within the publishing interests of the review. In addition, the review provides the funding to host the annual Chorley Lecture.

Chorley Lecture

The Chorley Lecture is an annual lecture inaugurated in 1972 and named in honour of Lord Chorley of Kendal

Robert Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley

Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley QC , was a British legal scholar, public servant and Labour politician....

, the founding editor of the Modern Law Review. The lecture, which is normally delivered in early June at the London School of Economics, is the most important occasion in the calendar of The Modern Law Review. A version of the lecture is subsequently published as the lead article in the January issue of the following year's volume.

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 in the Shaw Library, LSE at 6.00 pm. Admission is free without a ticket and open to the public.

Year	Lecturer	Title
2010	Andrew Ashworth Andrew Ashworth Andrew Ashworth CBE QC LLB PhD was the lead patent law examiner at St Johns Chambers Manchester and is a Vinerian Professor of English Law 2011-present at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of All Souls College, and Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel...	Ignorance of the Criminal Law, and Duties to Avoid it
2009	Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. His specialties include human rights in Islam and cross-cultural issues in human rights, and he is the director of the Religion and Human Rights Program at Emory. He is also a senior fellow of...	The Compatibility Dialectic:Mediating the Legitimate Coexistence of Islamic Law and State Law
2008	Gunther Teubner Gunther Teubner Gunther Teubner is a German legal scholar and sociologist, best known for his works within the field of Social Theory of Law. He was Professor of Private Law at the University of Bremen from 1977 to 1981. From 1982 to 1991 he was associated with the European University Institute in Florence, Italy...	Self-subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendence Formula of Law?
2007	Lani Guinier Lani Guinier Lani Guinier is an American lawyer, scholar and civil rights activist. The first African-American woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work includes professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in...	Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking the Political Representative as Powerful Stranger
2006	Martti Koskenniemi Martti Koskenniemi Martti Antero Koskenniemi is an international lawyer and a former Finnish diplomat. Currently he is professor of International Law in the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. He is well known for his critical approach to...	The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics
2005	Noelle Lenoir Noelle Lenoir Noëlle Lenoir, born on April 27, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, is a French stateswoman.-Career:Noelle Lenoir graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the Paris Law School and has been a professor in each of these institutions...	Biotechnology, Bioethics and Law: Europe's 21st Century Challenge
2004	Simon Roberts	After Government? On Representing Law Without State
2003	Bob Hepple	Race and Law in Fortress Europe
2002	Frank Michelman Frank Michelman Frank Isaac Michelman is an American legal scholar and Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School.Michelman wrote the influential law review article, Property, Utility and Fairness, on the economic reasons for just compensation in the 5th Amendment Takings Clause in the United...	Constitutional Legitimation for Political Acts
2001	Carol Harlow	Public Law and Popular Justice
2000	Jutta Limbach Jutta Limbach Jutta Limbach is a German jurist and politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . She received her doctorate in law in 1966 by the Free University of Berlin and fulfilled the requirements to be appointed professor by the German educational system in 1971...	The Concept of the Supremacy of the Constitution
1999	Kader Asmal Kader Asmal Kader Asmal was a South African politician. He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and has two sons...	Truth, Reconciliation and Justice: The South African Experience in Perspective
1998	Lord Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens is a British sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern contributors in the field of sociology, the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29...	Risk and Responsibility
1997	Antonio Cassese Antonio Cassese Antonio Cassese was an Italian jurist who specialized in public international law. He was formerly associated with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon which he presided over until his resignation on health grounds in 1 October 2011...	Reflections on International Criminal Justice
1996	C. A. E. Goodhart	Economics and the Law: Too Much One-Way Traffic?
1995	Roberto Unger	Legal Analysis as Institutional Imagination
1994	W.R.Cornish	Authors in Law
1993	Lord Runciman Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, CBE, FBA , is a leading British historical sociologist, usually known informally as Garry Runciman...	An Outsider’s View of the Criminal Justice System
1992	Sir Neil MacCormick Neil MacCormick Sir Neil MacCormick, QC, FBA, FRSE , or just Neil MacCormick, was a legal philosopher and Scottish politician. He was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 until 2008...	Beyond the Sovereign State
1991	Marc Galanter Marc Galanter Marc Galanter is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches South Asian Law, Law and Social Science, Legal Profession, Religion and...	Law Abounding: Legislation around the North Atlantic
1990	Lord Wedderburn of Charlton	The Social Charter in Britain – Labour Law and Labour Courts?
1989	Nicole Questiaux Nicole Questiaux Nicole Questiaux is a French politician. She served as the Minister of National Solidarity from 1981 to 1983, under former President François Mitterand.-Biography:...	Bicentenary of a Declaration: A Time for Challenge?
1988	Dame Rosalyn Higgins Rosalyn Higgins Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC is the former President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006. Her term of office expired on 6 February 2009...	Human Rights: Some Questions of Integrity
1987	L.C.B.Gower	Big Bang and City Regulation
1986	Hein Kotz	Taking Civil Codes Less Seriously
1985	R Abel	The Decline of Professionalism
1984	PS Atiyah	Common Law and Statute Law
1983	D Hay	The Criminal Prosecution of England and its Historians
1982	JPWB McAuslan	Administrative Law, Judicial Policy and Collective Consumption
1981	A Tunc	A French Lawyer looks at British Company Law
1980	SM Cretney	The Codification of Family Law
1979	GF Mancini	Politics and the Judges: The European Perspective
1978	JAG Griffith	The Political Constitution
1977	The Hon. Mr Justice Kerr	Modern Trends in Commercial Law and Practice
1976	Lord Dahrendorf	A Confusion of Powers: Politics and the Rule Law
1975	Lord Devlin	Judges and Lawmakers
1974	S Simitis	Workers’ Participation in the Enterprise – Transcending Company Law?
1973	Sir Otto Kahn-Freund Otto Kahn-Freund Sir Otto Kahn-Freund was professor of comparative law, University of Oxford, and a path breaking scholar in labour law.-Biography:...	The Uses and Abuses of Comparative Law
1972	HLA Hart	Bentham and the Demystification of the Law

Wedderburn Prize

The Wedderburn Prize is named in honour of Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, who served as general editor of the review from 1971 to 1988. It is awarded annually for a contribution to that year's volume which in the opinion of the Editorial Committee is exemplary of the type of scholarship that the Modern Law Review aims to promote. In awarding this Prize, the Committee pays particular attention to the work of authors who are at a relatively early stage of their careers.

Past Winners

Year	Winner	Title
2009	Ruth Dukes	Otto Kahn-Freund and Collective Laissez Faire: An Edifice Without a Keystone (72 MLR 220)
2008	Nico Krisch	The Open Architecture of European Human Rights Law (71 MLR 183)
2007	Andrew T.F. Lang	Reflecting on ‘Linkage’: Cognitive and Institutional Changes in The International Trading System (70 MLR 523)
2006	Peter Ramsay	The Responsible Subject as Citizen: Criminal Law, Democracy and the Welfare State (69 MLR 29)
2005	David Kershaw	Evading Enron: Taking Principles Too Seriously in Accounting Regulation (68 MLR 594)
2004 (Joint Winners)	Jonathan Morgan Grace James and Anne Barlow	Tort, Insurance and Incoherence (67 MLR 384) Regulating Marriage and Cohabitation in 21st Century Britain (67 MLR 143)
2003	Andrew Scott	‘A Monstrous and Unjustifiable Infringement'?: Political Expression and the Broadcasting Ban on Advocacy Advertising (66 MLR 224)
2002	Charles Manga Fombad	The Protection of Freedom of Expression in the Public Service Media in Southern Africa: A Botswana Perspective (65 MLR 649)
2001	Kimberlee Weatherall	Culture, Autonomy and Djulibinyamurr: Individual and Community in the Construction of Rights to Traditional Designs (64 MLR 215)
2000	Ian Roxan	Assuring Real Freedom of Movement in EU Direct Taxation (63 MLR 831)
1999	Aileen McHarg	Reconciling Human Rights in the Public Interest: Conceptual Problems and Doctrinal Uncertainty in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (62 MLR 671)
1998	Alan Story	Compensation for Banned Handguns: Indemnifying "Old Property" (61 MLR 188)
1997	Damian Chalmers	Judicial Preferences and the Community Legal Order (60 MLR 164)
1996	Helen Reece	Losses of Chances in the Law (59 MLR 188)
1995	Jane Stapleton	Tort, Insurance and Ideology (58 MLR 820)
1994	Alain Pottage	The Measure of Land (57 MLR 361)
1993	John Flood and Andrew Caiger	Lawyers and Arbitration: The Juridification of Construction Disputes (56 MLR 412)
1992	Lindsay Farmer	"The Genius of our Law." Criminal Law and the Scottish Legal Tradition

External links

• Catalogue of the papers of the Modern Law Review held at LSE Archives