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Annual Lecture

The Human Rights Law Centre annually invites a distinguished human rights leader and expert on international human rights issues to deliver its Annual Lecture to students and staff.

Previous lectures

• 2023: Healing Our Broken Societies: Tackling the Scourge of Racism - Professor Michael O'Flaherty
• 2022: Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen and How We Can Stop it Happening Again - Peter Apps
• 2021: Women's Rights are Human Rights: A Perspective from Afghanistan - Ms. Hasina Safi
• 2020: Global Health and Human Rights - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
• 2019: Populism and the Assault on Law - Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
• 2018: The New World of Digital Communication and its Challenges for the Freedoms of Speech and the Media - Kate O'Regan
• 2017: Who are we? Hate, Hostility and Human rights in a Post-Brexit World - Martha Spurrier
• 2016: Making Judgments on Human Rights Issues - Honourable Mr Justice Singh
• 2015: Raising the Bar: Iran and the Human Rights Council - Dr Ahmed Shaheed
• 2014: The Rights of Others - Why European Human Rights Diplomacy Matters - Stavros Lambrinidis
• 2013: The Prohibition of the Use of Force: Death by a Thousand Strikes - Philip Alston
• 2012: Argentoratum Locutum: Is the Supreme Court Supreme? - Lady Hale