Audrey Ducroux Memorial Lectures

Every year at our Annual Meeting, IAFL celebrates the life and achievements of one of our best loved Fellows.  Audrey Ducroux was a young, highly regarded rising star of the Lyon Bar.  As a young practitioner, she spent a period of time working in London, forging a close relationship with Lady Helen Ward of Manches, and developed a strong interest in international family law.   She was President of the IAFL’s European Chapter from 1994 to 1996 and, at the time of her premature death, was about to take up the role of the first woman President of the Academy.

Apart from her keen intellect and professional skill, Audrey was chic, stylish and had an enormously open, engaging and inclusive personality.  She also had a very strong focus on the development of young talent, derived from the experience and opportunities which had been offered to her at an earlier stage of her career, and the development of professional excellence and collegiality in those practising in the international aspects of family law. 

Audrey’s death was a great loss to both the Academy and the international family law community and the Audrey Ducroux Memorial Lecture was established in her memory.  

The lectures are listed below, and where available there are links to the lecture texts.