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Law and International Relations

Symposium: “A convivial meeting, one held by the ancient Greeks for  drinking, conversation and philosophical discussion”

General Sir Mike Jackson
Prof Sir Basil Markesinis QC
Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC MP
The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Schiemann
HE Judge Rosalyn Higgins DBE QC chairman

The fifth and last in a series of five symposia exploring society’s relationship with different aspects of the law.

Mike Jackson is a British army offi cer, formerly Chief of the General Staff. He was formerly Commander of KFor in Kosovo as well as UNPROFOR Commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Basil Markesinis is Professor of Common and Civil Law at University College London and Jamail Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Malcolm Rifkind was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1985. He became a member of the Cabinet in 1986 and has held the posts of Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Scotland, Transport and Defence.

Konrad Schiemann, having been a barrister and Queen’s Counsel,
became a High Court judge and then a Lord Justice of Appeal. He is
now a Judge of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, which
rules on all issues of European Law that affect the European Union. He is a Bencher of Inner Temple

Rosalyn Higgins is a Bencher of Inner Temple and was the first female judge to be elected to the International Court of Justice where she was elected President in 2006. She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire In 1995.

Tickets £10 Students £5 (unallocated seating)

Generously sponsored by the Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

CPD accreditation: 1.5 hours

Elin Manahan Thomas soprano
Greg Morris organ
The Temple Players

John Stanley Two Organ Concertos from op. 10
Songs and instrumental music by JC Bach, CF Abel and others

The programme recreates a late eighteenth-century evening’s entertainment at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, combining effervescent and high-spirited music from some of eighteenth-century London’s most fashionable musicians.

John Stanley was organist of the Temple Church 1734-1786. Despite near-total blindness, he was a brilliant and much-admired keyboard player. Handel frequently visited the Temple Church to hear him play.

Though published towards the end of his life, Stanley’s Op.10 set of concertos were composed over the course of his whole career, and reflect London’s changing musical tastes. This programme takes two of the more ‘modern’ concertos, and combines them with music by younger composers flourishing towards the end of Stanley’s life. They also continue the cycle of all the Op.10 concerts being played by Greg Morris over the course of the year.

Tickets: £20, £15, £10 (unreserved seating)

Generously supported by Dr Nuala Brice in memory of Geoffrey Brice QC