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We regret to announce that Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Sir Basil Markesinis have had to withdraw from this symposium. We are, however, delighted and honoured that the Rt Hon The Lord Brittan of Spennithorne QC DL and Prof Sir Lawrence Freedman have agreed to join the panel.

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

The Rt Hon The Lord Brittan of Spennithorne QC DL
Prof Sir Lawrence Freedman
General Sir Mike Jackson
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.

Leon Brittan was a senior minister in the Thatcher governments holding the posts of Minister of State, Home Office, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. He was Vice President of the European Commssion until 1999, and made a life peer in 2000.

Lawrence Freedman has been Professor of War Studies at King's College, London since 1982 and has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues.

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.

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

Tickets are free but must be booked in advance

Priority booking for Benchers, members of the Inns and members of the congregation from 1 October to 15 November.

All other bookings from 16 November.

Followed by drinks in Middle Temple Hall (charge for drinks £5 payable on the door)