CULS Lecture: 'Gender Injustice and The Law' - Baroness Shami Chakrabarti POSTPONED

Speaker: Baroness Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti is the Shadow Attorney General and a member of the House of Lords. Baroness Chakrabarti was Director of Liberty, the National Council for Civil Liberties from 2003 to 2016, and a member of the panel of the Leveson Inquiry, the judicial inquiry into UK phone hacking in 2011.

A lawyer, she is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Manchester, Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple. Called to the Bar in 1994, she worked as a lawyer in the Home Office from 1996 until 2001 for Governments of both persuasions. Shami’s first book, On Liberty, is published by Penguin. Her second, Of Women, was published on 26 October 2017.

Refreshments will follow the talk.

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