The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice.

The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies.

The 2013 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Judge Nicholas Forwood (General Court of the European Union) on Thursday 28th February 2013, and was entitled ""Interesting Times" - Chinese Curses, Lawyers' Headaches, Political Nightmares and New Dawns".

More information about this lecture is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at:

http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/