The Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures

The Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures honours His Royal Highness Sultan Azlan Shah’s commitment to the Rule of Law, Constitutional Supremacy and Good Governance.

Established to honour His Royal Highness Sultan Azlan Shah’s contribution to the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya specifically, and to the development of Malaysian law generally, especially so since Merdeka, the Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures was conceived and initiated by Professor Dr Visu Sinnadurai during his tenure as Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya (1983-1986). Since 1986, when the First Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lecture was delivered in Kuala Lumpur, distinguished Lord Chancellors, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Masters of the Rolls, Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, Deputy Presidents and Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, a former Chief Justice of Singapore, an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, a President of the New Zealand Court of Appeal, leading Queen’s Counsel and academics from the Commonwealth have been invited to partake in the premier law lecture series of Malaysia.

The eminent speakers, each conferring on the series the measure of prestige befitting its Patron, His Royal Highness Sultan Azlan Shah, have delivered authoritative, stimulating and thought-provoking lectures on a wide range of topics. The Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures has been described as “one of the most prestigious lecture series of the common law world.”

The First to Seventeenth Lectures were published in a volume entitled “The Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures: Judges on the Common Law” (Edited by Dato’ Seri Dr Visu Sinnadurai, Professional Law Books, 2004), the Eighteenth to Twenty-Fourth Lectures were published in a second volume entitled “The Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures II: Rule of Law, Written Constitutions & The Common Law Tradition” (Edited by Dato’ Seri Dr Visu Sinnadurai, RNS Publications, 2011), whilst the Twenty-Fifth to Thirty-Fourth Lectures were published in a volume entitled "The Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures III: Politics and the Judiciary, Executive Power & The Limits of Law" (Edited by Tan Sri Dr Visu Sinnadurai, RNS Publications, 2021).

The full text of the individual Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures have been made available with the kind permission of the publishers, and may be accessed in the links provided below. The full videos for selected lectures have been made available with the kind permission of the Sultan Azlan Shah Foundation.

The Sultan Azlan Shah Law Lectures


 

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