The former Supreme Court judge and author of Divided Houses (winner of the 2009 Wolfson History Prize) cuts through the political noise with his acute analysis of the state of democracy today. How did all this happen, and where do we go from here?
In this timely and incisive event, Sumption uses his provocative essays in The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law as a springboard to discuss issues from the vulnerabilities of international law to the deepening suppression of democracy activism, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech. He talks to Bronwen Maddox, the CEO of the International Affairs Think Tank Chatham House.
