Launch of the Centre and first Annual Distinguished Lecture in Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Launch of the Centre and first Annual Distinguished Lecture in Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Length: 1 hr 40 minutes
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The Centre was formally launched on Tuesday February 27th, 2007 with the first in a series of Annual Distinguished Lectures in Criminal Justice and Human Rights. Addressing one of the key questions for criminal justice and human rights today, Professor Conor Gearty, Rausing Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, L.S.E, spoke on the topic:
'Criminal Justice and Human Rights: Rising to the Challenge of Counter-Terrorism'.
Conor Gearty has published widely on terrorism, civil liberties and human rights. His books include Terror (Faber, 1990) and two books with K D Ewing, Freedom under Thatcher (1989) and The Struggle for Civil Liberties (2000). One of his more recent books, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication, is a study of the place of the Human Rights Act in Britain's constitutional order. It locates the measure in its political and historical context and analyses the case law from the perspective not only of principle but also of practical experience. In his latest book, Can Human Rights Survive? , Conor analyses the problems facing human rights today and the challenges that need to be overcome if the subject is to continue to thrive. The book is based on the Hamlyn lectures that Conor gave in 2005.