A barrister, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. She is an expert in human rights law, civil liberties and constitutional issues and has received many honours for her work. Current chair of Justice - the British arm of International Commission of Jurists, she was the Chair of the British Council and Chair of the Human Genetics Commission. She recently produced a report for the Equality and Human Rights Commission on Human Trafficking in Scotland and was member of the Government Commission on a British Bill of Rights. A Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, she is the co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Institute of Human Rights. She is also Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.