Baroness Scotland Delivers Lionel Cohen Lecture

Jerusalem, January 6, 2010 - The British Attorney-General Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC delivered the annual Lionel Cohen Lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus this week. Baroness Scotland spoke on ‘Lawfare: Time for Rules of Engagement?’ before a packed audience of scholars, students, dignitaries and members of the media and that included President of the Supreme Court Justice Dorit Beinisch, British Ambassador H.E. Tom Phillips and Chairman of the British Friends of the Hebrew University's Legal Group Lord Pannick Q.C.

During her two-day visit to the University, Baroness Scotland met with students of the Faculty of Law's Clinical Legal Education Center at two of its neighborhood clinics. The Center’s 13 clinics, staffed almost entirely by volunteer undergraduates who provide free legal aid to a range of communities and disadvantaged populations in the greater Jerusalem area, are supported by the Legal Group of the British Friends of the Hebrew University.  

Baroness Scotland also met with University President Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson and with Faculty of Law members, including Faculty Dean Prof. Barak Medina, former deans Profs. Yoav Dotan, Eyal Zamir and Mordechai Kremnitzer, and former government minister Prof. Shimon Shetreet. Baroness Scotland's visit included meetings with Supreme Court President Justice Beinisch, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz and Minister of Justice Yaakov Neeman, all of whom are Hebrew University alumni.

The Lionel Cohen Lecture at the Faculty of Law was established in honor of the distinguished judge by the British Friends Legal Group in 1953. Since then, some of the most eminent jurists and legal scholars in Britain and the Commonwealth have delivered the annual lecture. They include Sir Mark Potter, Sir Lawrence Collins, Sir Jack Beatson, Baronesses Deech and Hale, Lords Woolf, Pannick, Lane, Hope, Hoffman, Lester, Denning, Scarman, Hailsham and Wilberforce, Profs. Peter Birkes, Michael Zander, Dawn Oliver and Basil Markesinis, Chief Justice of Canada Bora Laskin and the first Attorney-General of India Dr. Motilal Chimanlal Setalvad.