On Judges and Judging: An Interview with Professor Simon Lee and James Lee - a podcast by The Verdict: Law & Society

How have perceptions of judges in scholarship and the media changed? What can be done to assist the public understanding of the work of the judiciary? What is the relationship between jurisprudential analysis of legal reasoning and substantive doctrine?

Mr James Lee is Reader in English Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law. His father Professor Simon Lee, was a lecturer in law at King’s in the 1980s and is now Professor at the Open University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at Queen’s University Belfast. In this podcast, they discuss their respective work on judging, as we approach the 10th Anniversary of the United Kingdom Supreme Court. They also discuss their experiences of teaching and writing at King’s and beyond.

Professor Lee’s work mentioned in the podcast includes ‘Mandate & Manifesto’ (1983-4) 33 King’s Counsel 39, Judging Judges, Faber ,1988 (with Postscript in paperback edition) and ‘Dicey Sentiments’ (https://bit.ly/2UFvlND)

Mr Lee’s work includes ‘Fidelity in interpretation: Lord Hoffmann and the Adventure of the Empty House’ (2008) 28 Legal Studies 1 (https://bit.ly/2V6J1kf); Editor, From House of Lords to Supreme Court: Judges, Jurists and the Process of Judging (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011) (https://bit.ly/2V60kBQ); and ‘The Judicial Individuality of Lord Sumption’, (2017) 40(2) University of New South Wales Law Journal 862 (https://bit.ly/2Xieyx1).

They have co-authored both Humility in the Supreme Court, with J Lee, (2015) 26 King’s Law Journal 165 (https://bit.ly/2UnuM5W) and a review essay examining recent books by Lord Dyson and Sir Stephen Sedley, which will appear in Legal Studies.


Follow Mr Lee on Twitter @jamessflee and find out more about his research here: https://bit.ly/2Un8ul9

Follow Professor Lee on Twitter @paradoxbridge and find out more about his research here: https://bit.ly/2V1YrpZ

The music used in this podcast is called Apollo1 by Olivier Girardot and it is licensed under Creative Commons.

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