Human Rights: The Case for the Defence - with Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE, PC
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
Join us for a special event with Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE, PC, who will be discussing her recent book Human Rights: The Case for the Defence. In this urgent and powerful book, Baroness Chakrabarti demonstrates why human rights matter and why we need to secure further rights to deal with challenges of the present and future. Following her talk, she will take part in a fireside chat with Professor Sarah Lamble, exploring the themes of the book in greater depth, before opening up the discussion to audience questions.
The event will take place on Friday 14 November at 6pm in the Clore Lecture Theatre B01, Clore Management Centre (duration: one hour), and will conclude with an opportunity to purchase a copy of her book and Baroness Chakrabarti will sign individual copies.
Biographies:
The Rt Hon Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE, PC, is the 17th President of Birkbeck, University of London.
Appointed in December 2024, she serves as an honorary ambassador and plays a key ceremonial role for the College, succeeding Baroness Bakewell DBE (President, 2012–2024).
A Member of the House of Lords since 2016, Baroness Chakrabarti is a labour peer, human rights lawyer, campaigner, and privy counsellor. She served as Shadow Attorney General from 2016 to 2020 and director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016. Called to the Bar in 1994, she worked as a Home Office lawyer from 1996 to 2001. She has written, spoken and broadcast widely, is author of three books and has a deep interest in higher education. She holds a number of visiting Fellowships and has previously been Chancellor of two universities: Oxford Brookes and the University of Essex.
Sarah Lamble is Professor of Criminology and Queer Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Lamble’s teaching and research addresses questions of gender, sexuality, and justice, with a focus on feminist alternatives to imprisonment, policing, and punishment. They have published widely on carceral politics, legal reform and the limitations of punitive approaches to addressing harm. Lamble’s book Unsafe: The carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash is forthcoming with Haymarket Books.
Doors open: 5.30 pm
Event starts: 6.00 pm
Book signing and drinks reception: 7pm
Event close: 8pm
The book talk is organised under the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and supported by Open Society Foundations.
This event is free and open to all but registration is required. Please click on the 'book your place' link at the top of the page to secure your place.
Contact name: Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
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