Congratulations to Jane Steen

The jury for the Deddens Thesis Award has agreed unanimously to make the 2018 Award to the Ven Jane Steen for her Cardiff Canon Law LLM dissertation, ‘Conscience and Change in Church and Law.’ The jury thought that her dissertation was ‘innovative and original’ and...

ELS Annual General Meeting 2019

Notice is given that the Thirty Second Annual General Meeting of the Ecclesiastical Law Society will take place during the Residential Conference at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park on Saturday 6th April 2019 at noon. Papers may be downloaded below: Download AGM...

Book Launch: Norman Doe, Comparative Religious Law

The publication of Norman Doe’s new book on Comparative Religious Law will be of interest across the Ecclesiastical Law Society. Norman Doe is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Religion at the Law School, Cardiff University, and course...

Bishop Colin Buchanan on The Transferable Vote

On 6 February 2019, some 40 people gathered at the Leeds Diocesan Offices to hear Bishop Colin Buchanan give a lecture on The Transferable Vote: a Hundred Years of Anglican Experience. He started by stating that in a four member constituency if each voter has 4 votes...