Everything Professor Conor Gearty says about human rights is interesting: he combines a great speaking style with a knack of saying something you didn’t quite expect. So this LSE “Burning Issue” lecture of his is bound to be worth seeing.
Conor Gearty on the DNA of human rights
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Some of the LSE law department stuff is not as hot as Conor. The place is going down. The old LSE with the rustic entrance to the Old Building is now dead. That red plastic stuff they have replaced it with is pretty sad. Maybe some sort of connection to its old Marxist past!
I’d go to the Open University over the LSE but agreed Professor Conor Gearty is one of the reasons why one can be proud to have an LSE degree – after Saif Gaddafi! But the LSE offers benefits to alumni such as half price on language courses and four books from the library for the rest of one’s life. Good law collection. Very neatly arranged …
Excellent video, the bit on the articles and the soviet constitution is a perfect illustration of Governments abuse of Human Rights legislation
I thought that talk was brilliant. If you enjoyed that, you might also like to know that LSE have loads of law stuff on youtube. I particularly enjoyed this pair of videos on the moral structure of legal systems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7UowL0d3U
Thanks Lucy!