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SUMMARY:&quot\;But still the days seem the same&quot\;: Law and Social Cha
 nge in Britain\, 1965-2015 - Professor Conor Gearty FBA\, Professor of Hum
 an Rights Law and Director of the Institute of Public Affairs at LSE
DTSTART:20150121T180000Z
DTEND:20150121T185000Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:_About the series_\n\nThis is series of specially-commissioned
  50-minute lectures to celebrate the first half-century of Wolfson College
 . In the series\, eleven distinguished members of the college reflect on d
 evelopments in their fields of expertise in the half-century since Wolfson
  was founded.\n\n_Abstract_\n\nIn 1965 Parliament was debating the first R
 ace Relations Bill\, with many arguing that even minimal controls on racis
 t speech violated our core civil liberties. The Wilson Government was fina
 lly agreeing to the right of individuals to take the UK government to the 
 European Commission and Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. And a young a
 cademic – later to be President of Wolfson College – was exposing the 
 power of the executive to act as it wished in the field of national securi
 ty. So much has changed over the course of the last fifty years. Or has it
 ?\n\n_About the Lecturer_\n\nConor Gearty did his first degree in Universi
 ty College Dublin\, after which he took a Masters in Law at Wolfson Colleg
 e Cambridge\, followed by a PhD.  He was a Fellow and Lecturer in law at E
 mmanuel College from 1983-90\, from where for a time he also directed law 
 studies at Wolfson College.  He subsequently moved to King's College Londo
 n and is now at the London School of Economics and Political Science\, whe
 re he is Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Institute of Pu
 blic Affairs at the School.  He has written many books on human rights\, c
 ivil liberties and terrorism\, most recently _Liberty and Security_ (Polit
 y\, 2013).  He is a Fellow of the British Academy\, a practising barrister
  and Bencher at Middle Temple\, and has honorary degrees from UCD\, Sacred
  Heart\, Brunel and Roehampton universities.\n\n_*How to book a seat for t
 his lecture*_\n\nAttendance is free but space is limited so please "click 
 here":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wolfson-college-50th-anniversary-lect
 ure-tickets-15180549432 to reserve a seat.
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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