UCL Laws: Mishcon Lectures

Mishcon Lecture 2011: British Foreign Policy in a Changing World, Tuesday 22 November. Chaired by Robin Lustig, Journalist and presenter of the BBC's World Tonight.

Previous topics have ranged from:

• the role and office of the Lord Chancellor;
• freedom of conscience and religion as applied to abortion and euthanasia;
• re-inventing families, i.e. social and economic policies for the family of the 1990s, as researched by the IPPR and the Commission for Social Justice;
• the political future of Central and Eastern Europe torn apart by nationalism;
• the philosophical justification for the judicial protection of constitutional and human rights;
• the conflict between theocratic, man-centred religions and Gaia, the quasi-religious environmental philosophy;
• justice, reconciliation and forgiveness for human rights violations in human conflicts;
• populism and pluralism in the New Labour government's constitutional reform programme;
• the Blair style of leadership in comparison to previous Prime Ministers; and
• the advent of a new, human rights based, world order in International Law.

The eclectic nature of the lectures reflect UCL's wish to encompass as wide a spectrum of social, economic, moral, legal and political issues as possible, reflecting Lord Mishcon's career and interests.

The annual Mishcon Lecture has rapidly become a major event in the calendar of academic, political, legal and intellectual life in London.

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