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| Richard is the first Honorary Professor of Gresham College, London. From 2000 to 2004, he was Gresham Professor of Law. The college was founded in 1597, is supported by the City of London Corporation and the livery company, The Mercers. There are eight Gresham Professors - in music, divinity, commerce, rhetoric, geometry, physic, astronomy, and law. The purpose of the College is and always has been to raise awareness of the latest learning in each of these disciplines. To that end, each professor presents a series of lectures each year. |
| Richard's lectures took the form of 20 public discussions that he held with distinguished legal guests, each of whom, in quite different ways, exerts considerable influence on the development of legal practice and the administration of justice, both in Great Britain and beyond. Through frank, friendly, and often light-hearted conversation, Richard explored: major trends in advanced legal systems; significant challenges facing justice systems of today; the thinking underlying recent reforms and changes; and the likely shape of the legal world in years to come. |
| His guests included Lord Woolf, Lord Falconer, Cherie Booth QC, Lord Saville and Lord Irvine. A revised set of transcripts of the interviews is now published as a book - The Susskind Interviews: Legal Experts in Changing Times (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005). |
| Details of the current programme can be found at www.gresham.ac.uk. |
