Fifty Years of the Law Commissions: The Dynamics of Law Reform

This book brings together past and present law commissioners, judges, practitioners, academics and law reformers to analyse the past, present and future of the Law Commissions in the United Kingdom and beyond. Its internationally recognised authors bring a wealth of experience and insight into how and why law reform does and should take place, covering statutory and non-statutory reform from national and international perspectives. The chapters of the book developed from papers given at a conference to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Law Commissions Act 1965.

Matthew Dyson is Professor of Civil and Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK. Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law.

James Lee is Senior Lecturer in Private Law in The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, UK.

Shona Wilson Stark is a University Lecturer in Public Law at the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and an Official Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.

Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.