Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead

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Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead QC ( October 22, 1915 - December 31, 1992 ) was a British lawyer , university professor and politician who became a life peer in the House of Lords in 1965 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and was in held leading positions for British film funding .

Life

Studies, lawyer and World War II

Lloyd graduated after school to study law at University College London (UCL) and then at the University of Cambridge . After completing his studies, he received his legal license in 1936 and then worked as a barrister . For his legal book Unincorporated Associations , published in 1938 , he was awarded the Yorke Prize awarded by the law school of Cambridge University .

During the Second World War he did his military service as a liaison officer with the Forces françaises libres of Charles de Gaulle in Lebanon and Syria . After the end of the war he returned to practice as a lawyer and worked in the law firm of George Williams Keeton, which specializes in common law .

University professor, upper house member and film sponsor

Lloyd then became a reader for English law at University College London in 1947 and taught there until 1956. With his book Public Policy: a comparative study of English and French law , published in 1953 , he presented a standard work in the field of comparative law .

Then Lloyd, who obtained a doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the University of Cambridge in 1956, took over the Richard Quain Professorship in Law at the University of London in 1956 as the successor to Glanville Williams . He held this teaching position until his retirement and his subsequent replacement by William Twining in 1982. In 1959 his legal encyclopedia Introduction to Jurisprudence appeared , which also became a standard work and brought legal scholars such as Hans Kelsen , Karl Olivecrona , Friedrich Carl von Savigny and Evgeni Bronislawowitsch Paschukanis closer.

During this time he was also a member of the Law Reform Committee between 1961 and 1982 and Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of London from 1962 to 1964 . In these functions, he was ultimately also significantly involved in the creation of the Rent Act 1965 . His textbook The Idea of ​​Law (1964) also became a standard work on legal theory and legal philosophy , which was shaped, among other things, by the ideas of Roscoe Pound .

By a letters patent dated May 14, 1965, Lloyd was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Lloyd of Hampstead , of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, and thus belonged to the House until his death of Lords as a member.

From the beginning of the 1970s, Baron Lloyd, who was again Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of London from 1969 to 1981, took on numerous functions in the film industry and was, among other things, founding chairman of the board of directors of the National Film and Television School (NFTS) between 1970 and 1988 and from 1973 to 1976 Chairman of the British Film Institute (BFI). Last time was Baron Lloyd, who for his legal services in 1975 Attorney-General ( Queen's Counsel ) was, from 1988 until his death in 1992, honorary president of the National Film and Television School.

Publications

  • The Law Relating to Unincorporated Associations: Being the Yorke Prize Essay for the Year 1937 , 1938
  • Public Policy: A Comparative Study of English and French Law , 1953
  • Rent control , co-author John Montgomerie, 1955
  • Business Lettings , co-author John Montgomerie, 1956
  • The British Commonwealth: The Development of Its Laws and Constitutions , co-author George Williams Keeton, 1955
  • The Right to Work: An Inaugural Lecture , 1957
  • Introduction to Jurisprudence , 1959 (8th edition 2008)
  • The Idea of ​​Law , 1964, reissued in 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Dennis, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer, university professor, non-fiction author and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1915
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1992