Or “Human Rights and Wrongs”, as Jonathan Sumption’s third lecture is called, in his series on Law’s Expanding Empire, delivered in Edinburgh and broadcast on Radio 4 and BBC World Service. Human ...

This was one of a number of profound philosophical and legal questions addressed by former UK Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption in his recent and controversial Reith Lectures, which addressed ...

Lecture one, Law’s Expanding Empire, recorded at Middle Temple in London in front of an audience, Sumption argues that until the 19th century law only dealt with a very narrow range of human ...

Law’s Expanding Empire Tuesday 21 May, 9-9.45am In Praise of Politics Tuesday 28 May, 9-9.45am Human rights and wrongs Tuesday 4 June, 9-9.45am ...

Judge, author and historian Jonathan Sumption will be the 2019 BBC Reith Lecturer. Sumption will deliver five lectures on BBC Radio 4 in Spring 2019, outlining the decline of politics and the rise ...

As a Barrister and a Judge, he has written on the rule of law – nationally and internationally, and he delivered the prestigious BBC Reith Lectures in 2019. The book published with the text of ...

The rights protected by the ECHR are important – Sumption would want them enshrined in a British bill of rights. But the court in Strasbourg, he complains, does not merely rule on existing law, but, ...

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He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018, and delivered the BBC Reith Lectures for 2019 on the subject of Law and the Decline of Politics.

The Reith Lectures Ep. 1/5 - This year’s BBC Reith Lecturer is Jonathan Sumption, until recently one of England and Wales’s most senior Judges, sitting in the UK’s Supreme Court.