John Lewis Memorial Lecture 2012
May 2012
Dr Alison Mawhinney (Bangor Law School) has given this year's John Lewis Memorial Lecture as part of the LLM in Canon Law course. The lecture looked at semiotics and the Lautsi case.
The annual lecture is held in remembrance of Professor John Lewis, an associate of the Centre and professor at Windsor University Ontario, who taught regularly on the LLM in Canon Law from 1993 until his death in 1999.
The memorial lecturers have included: Professor Edward Gaffney (Valparaiso University School of Law), David Harte (Newcastle Law School), Frank Cranmer (then Principal Clerk, House of Commons), Revd Canon John Rees (Provincial Registrar Canterbury), Paul Colton (Bishop of Cork), Professor Richard Helmholz (University of Chicago) Professor Pieter Coertzen ( University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) and Professor Noel Cox (Head of the Law and Criminology Department at Aberystwyth University).