Gerald Gordon Seminar on Criminal Law
On the 11th and 12th of June 2009, a two day seminar, followed by a public lecture by Lord Hope of Craighead, was held in honour of Sir Gerald Gordon CBE QC LLD. A Festschrift, Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon, was published the following year.
Following the success of this event, a decision was taken to establish the Gerald Gordon Seminar on Criminal Law as an annual generalist criminal law seminar. These seminars have been supported by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education and the Faculty of Advocates, while the 2009 public lecture received additional support from W. Green. Full details of the 2009-2024 seminars can be found on this site. No seminar took place in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The sixteenth seminar will take place on Friday 13 June 2025 at the University of Glasgow campus, when the following speakers will present:
- Dr Andrew Cornford (Edinburgh): “Controlling prosecutorial discretion”
- Dr Rachel Ferguson (Glasgow Caledonian): “Sexual offences against children in the practice of the criminal law”
- Dr Kate Leader (Queen Mary): “Defendants as victims: a scoping study of vulnerability, victimhood and safeguards from charge to conviction"
- Dr Rachel McPherson (Glasgow): “The role of fatal accident inquiries in intimate partner homicide”
- Professor David Ormerod (UCL): TBC
Two presentation slots in the conference schedule have been reserved for research students. Any interested student should submit a title and abstract (no more than 300 words) to meera.mohankrishnan@glasgow.ac.uk by Thursday 6 February 2025. Papers may be in any area of criminal law, criminal justice or criminal procedure. Thanks to the support of our sponsors, the Clark Foundation for Legal Education and the Faculty of Advocates, we will be able to provide accommodation and cover reasonable travel costs (up to a maximum of £200) for the selected speakers. Registration for the seminar will open shortly after these final slots have been filled and the full programme finalised. Any questions can be sent to james.chalmers@glasgow.ac.uk.