We are delighted to invite you to the ILCR Lecture by Kate O’Regan (Oxford), which will take place on Thursday, 25 April, from 5.15pm in the Old Seminar Room (Mediaeval History Building, 65–71 South Street). The lecture will focus on “The Importance of Judicial Craft in Constitutional Adjudication.” It will be followed by the end of semester party.

We will also have a ‘My Life in Law’ interview featuring Kate O’Regan at 1.15pm on the same day in the Old Seminar Room.  During the interview, Professor John Hudson will engage in an enlightening conversation with Kate O’Regan about her wealth of experience as a legal practitioner, a judge, an academic, and currently as the Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford.

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Kate O’Regan is the inaugural director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford and professor of human rights law. She served as one of the first judges of South Africa’s Constitutional Court in the post-apartheid era from 1994-2009 having been appointed by President Nelson Mandela.  When her fifteen-year term of office on the Constitutional Court came to an end, she was appointed as an ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Namibia where she served till 2016. In this period too she served as a judge on a range of international tribunals.  

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All are welcome!