Family and friends bid farewell to Prof Robin Morse

More than 75 friends and family attended a retirement dinner in honour of Professor Robin Morse earlier this month. 

Robin’s former students, many now leading barristers, lawyers and academics, joined faculty members and staff from The Dickson Poon School of Law in wishing Robin a long and happy retirement. 

Guests enjoyed dinner and drinks at the Inner Temple and listened as colleagues, family and friends paid tribute to Robin.

He received praise with characteristic modesty, claiming “I just did my job.” Speakers included Prof David Caron, the present Dean of the law school, Principal of the College Professor Sir Richard Trainor, and Prof Eva Lomnicka.

Robin enjoyed a long and distinguished career at King’s, joining the college in 1971, and becoming Reader in 1988, Professor in 1992 and FKC in 2000.  

His contributions to the college are too numerous to list but include recruiting established scholars and bright young stars, as well as setting up the annual Graveson Memorial Lecture series and the Jeffrey Price Memorial Scholarships to help talented law students with limited means. 

At his retirement, Robin remains the foremost private international academic lawyer in the UK in the area of obligations, having edited the leading text, Dicey and Morris on the Conflict of Laws, for 25 years.

Although he has retired, Robin has not left the law school completely, and will still be teaching the popular Conflict of Laws module on the LLB course at King’s.