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.

On 6th November 2009, Eleanor Sharpson QC, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities delivered the annual CELS (Centre for European Legal Studies) Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture for 2009 entitled "Addressing Linguistic Transparency in the ECJ".

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/