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Politics vs the Law – Who are the Best Defenders of Human Rights? Lord Sumption & Prof Kate O'Regan
23 January 2020, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm
Politics vs the Law – Who are the Best Defenders of Human Rights?
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Abi Turner
Location
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JZ Young Lecture Theatre016: Medical Sciences and AnatomyGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, will be joined by Professor Kate O'Regan where they will discuss Jonathan's ideas expressed in his Reith Lecture on 'Human Rights and Wrongs'. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005msd)
Jonathan Sumption argues that judges - especially those of the European Court of Human Rights - have usurped power by expanding the interpretation of human rights law.
Q&A will follow and will be chaired by Dr. Jeff Howard.
Lord Sumption is a British author, medieval historian, and former senior judge and Professor Kate O'Regan is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and is now the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford.
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