THE topics chosen for inaugural lectures often fall into one of three categories. First, there is what might be called the ‘state of the discipline’ lecture, in which the newly-appointed Professor takes an overall look at his subject. He may chart its recent progress, discuss its current health, consider its distinctive intellectual characteristics, explain its relevance to the world's concerns, or even justify its appearance in the academic curriculum. In any event, his intention is to present a synoptic picture. Many of those who have come to hear him may be presumed to represent other disciplines and it is, therefore, his intention to guide them along some of the wider paths which are to be found in his particular neck of the academic woods.
page 92 note 1 Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) 38.24.
page 95 note 1 See her Primitive Government (Harmondsworth, 1972)Google Scholar, Introduction and Part One.
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page 100 note 1 However, newspaper comment on the effects of the 1977 break-up of the East African Community implied that the three member states had not had diplomatic representation in each other's capitals.
page 101 note 1 Act IV, scene 2.
page 101 note 2 Quoted in Manning, G. A. W., ‘Austin Today: or “The Province of Jurisprudence” Re-examined,’ in A. L. Goodhart et al, Modern Theories of Law (London, 1933), p. 224.Google Scholar But see also the same passage for the claim that “Austin nevertheless does seem in the end to have classed international law with ‘law properly so called’ ”.
page 103 note 1 See, in particular, Manning, , ‘The Legal Framework in a World of Change’, in Porter, B. (ed.), The Aberystwyth Papers (London, 1972), pp. 305–9.Google Scholar The expression had figured tellingly in Manning's Sovereigntyfor the Common Man, the proposed publication of which, in the series that included Martin Wight's Power Politics, was announced in 1944 but eventually not proceeded with. Compare further Manning, , The Nature of International Society (London, 1962, re-issued 1975), pp. 166–7.Google Scholar Professor Manning died on 10 March 1978.
page 105 note 1 See his Reinassance Diplomacy (Boston, 1955), passim.Google Scholar
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