HRLC Annual Lecture 2018: The new world of digital communication and its challenges for the freedoms of speech and the media

Kate O'Regan, Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford, will visit Nottingham on Thursday 4 October 2018 to deliver HRLC's 2018 Annual Lecture entitled, The new world of digital communication and its challenges for the freedoms of speech and the media.

Kate is the inaugural Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, which opened in a new building at Mansfield College in  October 2017.  She served as one of the first judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 – 2009 and as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia from 2010 - 2016.  She is an honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of seven  honorary degrees. She has also served on the boards of many NGOs working in the fields of democracy, the rule of law, human rights and equality.

All are welcome and the event is free to attend, for planning purposes please register at: kor2018.eventbrite.com.