Gresham Professor of Law

The four-century old Law Professorship at Gresham College has been utilised for lectures on a range of topics in recent years, ranging from constitutional affairs to the legislation of biological research.

Next lecture

Regulating the Regulators

Wednesday 23 May 2012

Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE

Latest lecture

The Legal Profession - Regulating for independence

Wednesday 9 May 2012

Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE

Current Professor

Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE

Professor the Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from St. Anne's College, Oxford, before going on to further legal studies in the U.S.A. and the Netherlands. Three years after being called to the Bar (Inner Temple), she returned to St. Anne's College, Oxford, where she took up the position of Tutorial Fellow in Law, a position she held until she became the Principal of the College in 1991. During this period, Professor Deech held a...

Past professors

1 Henry Mowtlowe - 1596/7
2 Clement Corbet - 1607
3 Thomas Eden - 1613
4 Benjamin Thorneton - 1640
5 Joshua Crosse - 1644
6 Thomas Leonard - 1649
7 John Bond - 1649/50
8 Benjamin Thorneton - 1660
9 Richard Pearson - 1667
10 John Clarke - 1670
11 Roger Meredith - 1672/73
12 Robert Briggs - 1686/87
13 John Cumyng - 1719
14 William Mace - 1744
15 Joseph Jeffries - 1767
16 T Taylor - 1784
17 William Jocelyn Palmer - 1808
18 William Palmer - 1836

19 John Thomas Abdy - 1858
20 George Holmes Blakesley - 1896
21 William Blake Odgers - 1907
22 Geoffrey Walter Wrangham - 1925
23 William Arthian Davies - 1934
24 Eric Sachs - 1946
25 Richard O'Sullivan - 1950
26 Richard Jon Harvey - 1962
27 R F V Heuston - 1965
28 P R Glazebrook - 1971
29 Clive M Schmitthoff - 1976
30 Kenneth R Simmonds - 1988
31 Sir David Calcutt QC - 1992
32 Simon Lee - 1995
33 Gerald Wakefield - 1998
34 Richard Susskind OBE - 2000
35 Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE - 2004

All Gresham Professor of Law lectures


Regulating the Regulators	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Wednesday 23 May 2012
The Legal Profession - Regulating for independence	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Wednesday 9 May 2012
The BBC - Defending the public interest	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Wednesday 25 April 2012
The BBC - Protecting it from the Government	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Wednesday 11 April 2012
The Universities - Under regulation	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Wednesday 28 March 2012
The Universities - Over regulation	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Wednesday 14 March 2012
Britain in the 20th Century: The Road to War	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 22 March 2011
Britain in the 20th Century: "Appeasement"	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 15 February 2011
Britain in the 20th Century: The Economic Crisis and its Consequences	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 18 January 2011
Britain in the 20th Century: The Great War and its Consequences	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 7 December 2010
Britain in the 20th Century: Responses to Decline, 1895-1914	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 9 November 2010
Britain in the 20th Century - Progress and Decline: The Character of Twentieth Century Britain	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 21 September 2010
Cousin Marriage	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Tuesday 23 March 2010
Civil Partnerships	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Tuesday 16 March 2010
Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Tuesday 2 February 2010
Cohabitation and the Law	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Tuesday 17 November 2009
What’s a woman worth? The maintenance law	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Tuesday 13 October 2009
Divorce law - a disaster?	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Tuesday 15 September 2009
Human Rights and Welfare	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Monday 11 May 2009
Judicial control of regulation	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Wednesday 11 March 2009
Fertility and Feminism	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Monday 16 February 2009
Choosing your baby	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Thursday 20 November 2008
Ethics, embryos and infertility	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Monday 27 October 2008
Reproductive technologies and the birth of the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority	Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE	Thursday 25 September 2008
John F. Kennedy, President, 1961-1963	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 27 May 2008
Dwight Eisenhower, President, 1953-1961	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 18 March 2008
Harry Truman, President, 1945-1953	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 29 January 2008
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President 1933-1945 - Foreign Policy	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Wednesday 28 November 2007
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President 1933-1945 - Domestic Policy	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 30 October 2007
The Nature of the American Presidency	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 18 September 2007
Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - John Major	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Thursday 21 June 2007
Our new Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 29 May 2007
Our New Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Friday 4 May 2007
Northern Ireland and the British-Irish relationship: The Gladstonian Settlement revisited	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 27 March 2007
The government of London	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 30 January 2007
The new localism: Local government and the Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 12 December 2006
The Referendum: Direct democracy and the Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 24 October 2006
The Civil Service and the Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 26 September 2006
The Judges and the Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 30 May 2006
Party finance and the Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 28 March 2006
The Referendum: Direct Democracy and the Constitution	Lord Falconer	Tuesday 24 January 2006
Modernising Parliament: Reform of the House of Lords	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 29 November 2005
The Reform of Parliament and the Crisis of Political Participation	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 25 October 2005
Alternative Electoral Systems	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 20 September 2005
The General Election and the Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 31 May 2005
Devolution and the territorial Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 5 April 2005
The Human Rights Act: Cornerstone of a New Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 25 January 2005
Europe and the old Constitution	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 30 November 2004
The old Constitution under strain	Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE	Tuesday 26 October 2004
A conversation with The Rt Hon Lord Justice Auld, Lord Justice of Appeal and Chairman of Criminal Courts Review	The Rt Hon Lord Justice Auld	Tuesday 26 February 2002
A conversation with David Pannick QC	David Pannick QC	Tuesday 27 November 2001
A conversation with The Rt Hon the Lord Woolf of Barnes, The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales	The Rt Hon the Lord Woolf of Barnes	Tuesday 30 October 2001
Recent Law Reforms and IT	Richard Susskind	Monday 23 April 2001
Categorisation of Legal Disputes on the Internet	Professor Gerald Wakefield	Wednesday 2 February 2000
Cyber/Contracts	Professor Gerald Wakefield	Thursday 9 December 1999
Electronic Commerce: New Data Protection Law	Professor Gerald Wakefield	Tuesday 2 March 1999
Pornography, Censorship and Defamation	Professor Gerald Wakefield	Tuesday 2 February 1999
Copyright, Trade Mark, Service Mark, Domain Name and Intellectual Property Issues	Professor Gerald Wakefield	Wednesday 9 December 1998
The Internet: Security and Contract at a Distance	Professor Gerald Wakefield	Tuesday 10 November 1998
The Internet and Electronic Commerce: The New Technology	Professor Gerald Wakefield	Tuesday 13 October 1998
Law Lectures by Professor Sir David Calcutt QC, October 1992 - June 1993	Professor Sir David Calcutt QC	Wednesday 14 October 1992
After Maastricht: The future evolution of the European Community	Professor Kenneth R Simmonds	Wednesday 11 March 1992