The Hamlyn Lectures are a series of public lectures in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland given annually on a legal topic.
Emma Hamlyn had travelled widely and was intrigued by the relation between each country and their laws.
After this she spent the last twenty years at her home in Ilsham reading and receiving visitors.
The trust was to furtheramong the Common People of this Country of the knowledge of the Comparative Jurisprudence and the Ethnology of the Chief European countries including our own and the circumstances of the growth of such Jurisprudence to the intent that the Common People of our Country may realise the privileges which in law and custom they enjoy in comparison with other European Peoples and realising and appreciating such privileges may recognize the responsibilities and obligations attaching to them.
[1][2] The lectures became popular after Lord Denning delivered the first one and others agreed to follow his example.