Dans ses conférences et discours, Lady Brenda Hale s’est imposée comme une voix majeure du débat juridique contemporain. Elle y développe, avec une clarté remarquable, des thèmes récurrents comme l’indépendance de la justice, l’accès au droit, l’égalité femmes-hommes et la place des juridictions dans une démocratie moderne. Ses interventions mêlent souvent analyse doctrinale, retours d’expérience judiciaire et réflexion institutionnelle, ce qui leur donne une portée à la fois académique et civique.
Très sollicitée par les universités, les associations professionnelles et les conférences internationales, elle a contribué à rapprocher le monde judiciaire du monde académique, tout en rendant les enjeux constitutionnels accessibles à un public plus large. Ces prises de parole constituent aujourd’hui un corpus précieux, qui éclaire sa pensée autant que sa conception exigeante du rôle du juge dans la société.
Titre | Occasion | Date | Thème | Lien |
Woman and children last | Alba Lecture | 2009 | Droit de la famille | |
Justice for the jains: remedies for bad administration | F W Guest Memorial Lecture University of Otago | 2010 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Dignity | Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address | 2010 | Grands principes du droit | |
Terrorism and global security | 10th Biennial International Conference of International Association of Women Judges | 2010 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Georgetown commencement speech | Georgetown University | 2010 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Salford Human Rights Conference | Salford Human Rights Conference | 2010 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Judgment writing in the Supreme Court | First anniversary seminar | 2010 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Beanstalk or living instrument? How tall can the ECHR grow ? | Barnard’s Inn Reading | 2011 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Equal Access to Justice in the Big Society | Sir Hodge Memorial Lecture | 2011 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Opening Address | Law Centres Federation Annual Conference 2011 | 2011 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Argentoratum locutum: Is the Supreme Court supreme ? | Nottingham Human Rights Lecture | 2011 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
The Supreme Court in the UK Constitution | Legal Wales conference | 2012 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
It’s a Man’s World: Redressing the Balance | Norfolk Law Lecture, University of East Anglia, Norwich | 2012 | Droit des femmes | |
Equality in the Judiciary | Kuttan Menon Memorial Lecture | 2013 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Should judges be socio-legal scholars? | Socio-Legal Studies Association 2013 Conference | 2013 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Who’s Afraid of Children’s Rights? | Welsh Observatory on the Human Rights of Children and Young People | 2013 | Droit de la famille | |
New Families and the Welfare of Children | Morgan Centre Conference, LSE | 2013 | Droit de la famille | |
The Conflict of Equalities | Alison Weatherfield Memorial Lecture at the Employment Lawyers Association | 2013 | Droits fondamentaux | |
What are Care Proceedings for? | Munkman Lecture 2013 at BPP Law School, Leeds | 2013 | Droit de la famille | |
Who Guards the Guardians? | Public Law Project Conference | 2013 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Young Legal Aid Lawyers: Social Mobility | London South Bank University | 2013 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
What’s the point of human rights? | Warwick Law Lecture | 2013 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Religion and Sexual Orientation: The clash of equality rights | Comparative and Administrative Law Conference, Yale Law School | 2014 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Professional Negligence – a panacea for the law’s injustices? | Professional Negligence Bar Association: Peter Taylor Lecture | 2014 | Tort law | |
Freedom of Religion and Belief | Annual Human Rights Lecture for the Law Society of Ireland | 2014 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Women in the Judiciary | Fiona Woolf Lecture for the Women Lawyers’ Division of the Law Society | 2014 | Droit des femmes | |
UK Constitutionalism on the March? | Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association Conference | 2014 | Constitution du Royaume-Uni | |
Are we a Christian country? Religious freedom and the law | Oxfordshire High Sheriff’s Lecture | 2014 | Droits fondamentaux | |
The Other Side of the Table? | Mental Health Tribunal Members’ Association | 2014 | Droit de la santé | |
Psychiatry and the Law: An enduring interest for Lord Rodger | The Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture | 2014 | Droit de la santé | |
The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution | The Bryce Lecture, Somerville College, Oxford | 2015 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Magna Carta: Our Shared Heritage | Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Lecture, Washington D.C. | 2015 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
The UK Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution | Inaugural lecture at the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews | 2015 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Magna Carta: Did she die in vain? | Gray’s Inn | 2015 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Appointments to the Supreme Court | tenth anniversary of the Judicial Appointments Commission, University of Birmingham | 2015 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Are we nearly there yet? | Association of Lawyers for Children Annual Conference 2015, Manchester | 2015 | Droit de la famille | |
Human Rights and Social Justice | York University, Festival of Ideas 2016 | 2016 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Legislation or judicial law reform: where should judges fear to tread? | Society of Legal Scholars Conference 2016 | 2016 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
The Supreme Court: Guardian of the Constitution? | Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture 2016, Kuala Lumpur | 2016 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
The United Kingdom Constitution on the move | The Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies’ Cambridge Lectures | 2017 | Constitution du Royaume-Uni | |
Judges, Power and Accountability, Constitutional Implications of Judicial Selection | Constitutional Law Summer School, Belfast | 2017 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Religious Dress | Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture Oxford | 2018 | Droits fondamentaux | |
2018 – A Year of Anniversaries | The 2018 Pankhurst Lecture, University of Manchester | 2018 | Droit des femmes | |
Dishonesty | Bristol Alumni Association Lecture 2018 | 2018 | Grands principes du droit | |
Reflecting on the Legacy of Chief Justice Mclachlin | University of Ottawa | 2018 | Grands principes du droit | |
Keynote Speech | Resolution’s 30th National Conference, Bristol | 2018 | Droit de la famille | |
Openness and Privacy in Family Proceedings | Sir Nicholas Wall Memorial Lecture 2018, Gray’s Inn, London | 2018 | Droit de la famille | |
Challenges in the justice system and the contribution of empirical research | Nuffield Foundation: 75th Anniversary Lecture | 2018 | Organisation judiciaire | |
Devolution and The Supreme Court – 20 Years On | Scottish Public Law Group 2018, Edinburgh | 2018 | Dévolution | |
Is it time for yet another Mental Health Act? | Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Conference, Birmingham | 2018 | Droit de la santé | |
The Contribution of Scottish Cases to Developing United Kingdom | Law Society of Scotland Annual Conference 2018 | 2018 | Dévolution | |
Equality and Human Rights | Oxford Equality Lecture 2018 | 2018 | Droits fondamentaux | |
All Human Beings? Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights | Society of Legal Scholars Centenary Lecture 2018, University of Essex | 2018 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Celebrating 70 years of the Universal Declaration and 20 years of the Human Rights Act | British Institute of Human Rights Annual Lecture 2018 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London | 2018 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Should the Law Lords have left the House of Lords? | Michael Ryle Lecture 2018 River Room, House of Lords, London | 2018 | Organisation judiciaire | |
Celebrating Women’s Rights | Birmingham Law Society and Holdsworth Club 2018 | 2018 | Droit des femmes | |
Human Rights and Family Life in the United Kingdom and Islands | Caroline Weatherill Memorial Lecture 2018 The Isle of Man Law Society | 2018 | Droits fondamentaux | |
On Courage | Millicent Fawcett Memorial Lecture 2018 The Royal Society, London | 2018 | Grands principes du droit | |
Moral courage in the law | The Worcester Lecture 2019, Worcester Cathedral | 2019 | Grands principes du droit | |
Religious Dress | Woolf Institute, Cambridge | 2019 | Droits fondamentaux | |
Principle and Pragmatism in Developing Private Law | Cambridge Freshfields Lecture 2019 | 2019 | Grands principes du droit | |
100 Years of Women in the Law: From Bertha Cave to Brenda Hale | King’s College London | 2019 | Droit de la famille | |
What is the United Kingdom Supreme Court for? | Macfadyen Lecture 2019, Edinburgh | 2019 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Legal Aid at 70 Legal Action Group | Legal Action Group, London | 2019 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
The Rights of Disabled Children | Northern Ireland Children’s Law Centre 2019 | 2019 | Droit de la famille | |
100 Years of Women in the Law | Girton’s Visitor’s Anniversary Lecture 2019 | 2019 | Droit des femmes | |
Impact in the Courts | Impact and Law Reform Conference 2019, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London | 2019 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Women’s Rights Worldwide | Grotius Lecture 2019, Bank of England, London | 2019 | Droit des femmes | |
What is a 21st Century Family? | International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice 2019 | 2019 | Droit de la famille | |
Law and Politics: A Reply to Reith | Dame Frances Patterson Memorial Lecture 2019 | 2019 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Principle and Pragmatism in Public Law | Sir David Williams Lecture 2019 | 2019 | Grands principes du droit | |
30 Years of the Children Act 1989 | Scarman Lecture 2019, Law Commission, London | 2019 | Droit de la famille | |
Women in law – the next 100 years | BACFI Denning Lecture 2019 Athenaeum, Pall Mall, London | 2019 | Droit des femmes | |
‘When there are 12’: Legal Education and a Diverse Judiciary | Lord Upjohn Lecture 2021 | 2021 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Courts and Tribunals | Annual Upper Tribunal (UTAAC/UTIAC) Lecture | 2021 | Séparation des pouvoirs | |
Keynote Address | Annual Human Rights Lecture 2022, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission | 2022 | Droits fondamentaux |
