5 August 2025. Anghie to give Turner Lecture

Professor Antony Anghie will give the George Turner Memorial Lecture at the Melbourne Law School on 5 August 2025. more information and registration link coming soon.

Antony Anghie is Professor of International Law, National University of Singapore and Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the university of Utah. He has been a visiting professor at numerous schools including the American University Cairo, Cornell Law School, the London School of Economics , Harvard Law School and the University of Brasilia. He has served in different capacities on the governing bodies of the Asian Society of International Law since its founding, and was a principal organizer of the Society’s biennial Conference in Beijing in 2011. He delivered the Grotius Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law in 2010. He is the author of Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law.

Sir George Turner Lecture series is an annual lecture series at the Melbourne Law School named in honour of Australian politician Sir George Turner (1851-1916). Sir George was admitted to practice in 1881. He was Mayor of St Kilda from 1887 to 1888, elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1889 and became Solicitor-General for Victoria in 1892. In 1894 he became Premier of Victoria. The lecture series was established by Turner’s daughter Grace Melvin Turner upon her passing in 1959.