Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti. Image credit: Bar Council via Flickr

Shami Chakrabarti, "Human Rights as Human Values"

by | May 13, 2014

Hosted by Linacre College, Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, will be giving the 2014 Tanner lecture entitled “Human Rights as Human Values.”

 

Details:

Date – Thursday 15 May

Time – 5:30pm

Venue – University Museum of Natural History

 

Shami Chakrabarti has been Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) since September 2003. Shami first joined Liberty as In-House Counsel on 10 September 2001. She became heavily involved in its engagement with the ‘War on Terror’ and with the defence and promotion of human rights values in Parliament, the Courts and wider society. A Barrister by background, she was called to the Bar in 1994 and worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996 until 2001 for Governments of both persuasions. She is Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford in addition to being a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

 

For bookings and further information, please contact: ros.connell@linacre.ox.ac.uk.

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