The Forbes Lecture – 14 July 2016

08/07/2016

The 2016 Forbes Lecture will be delivered by Professor Jane Stapleton on 14 July 2016 at 5.15pm in the NSW Bar Association Common Room. The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC will chair the lecture.

Professor Stapleton is a professor at the Australian National University and the University of Texas, School of Law. She is the master-elect of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.

The title of Professor Stapleton’s lecture is “Lady Margaret Beaufort and the Law”. Lady Margaret Beaufort was the mother of King Henry VII and, among many other things, established Christ’s College, Cambridge in the 1500s. Professor Stapleton’s lecture promises to provide a fascinating insight into this remarkable woman and her relationship with the law.