Engineers Australia's College of Leadership and Management, R2A and the Victorian Bar have the pleasure of presenting Cambridge University Reader in Law and former British MP, Professor David Howarth for a special presentation exploring his latest book, Law as Engineering.
His essential point in this book is that that these days most lawyers don’t litigate. Rather, they design social constructs such as contracts, companies, treaties and wills to facilitate their clients’ social needs.
This is similar to how engineers design physical constructs to satisfy their clients. As a consequence, he observes that lawyers have a lot to learn from engineers, both in practice and academia. And, arguably, engineers utilising design processes have been doing so for a lot longer than lawyers.
Speaker
David Ross Howarth (born 10 November 1958) is a British academic and politician who was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10. He is currently an Electoral Commissioner, and Reader in Law and Professor at the University of Cambridge.
He was UK Shadow Solicitor General (2007-9); and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice (2009–10). He served on the Constitutional Affairs, Justice and Environmental Audit Select Committees. He was one of the relatively few MPs not implicated in the 2009 expenses
scandal, being singled out by The Guardian as one of the “Angels” for having “not claimed a penny in second home allowances” and commuting the 60 miles from Cambridge to Westminster.
Event Information
Tickets for this session are $39 (incl GST) and includes a light lunch with net proceeds going to Engineers Without Borders.
RSVP: Monday 6 February 2017
CPD Hours
This session is worth 1.5 Engineers Australia CPD hours.